Tasfer: a text editor drawn on a 2D canvas

(hamza.se)

19 points | by hamza512b 3 days ago

8 comments

  • amelius 17 minutes ago
    Not bad! But it got slow after I pasted the text of a random blog post 20 times or so. I don't think this will work for writing a book. But for short to medium length notes, it will do fine.
  • rpastuszak 51 minutes ago
    We should chat (check bio)! For almost a decade now I’ve been working on a writing tool that might benefit from it. I build occasional forks with procgen on top it. That being said better bidi handling is something I’m most interested in.

    Enso.sonnet.io - what I’m talking about.

    (On untested.sonnet.io you’ll find notes about the experiments / toys related)

  • aziis98 52 minutes ago
    Ok the custom rich text latex editor is really cool. But I'm on a tablet and stuff like selecting text is a bit awkward (the up down auto scroll is not exactly the same as the native one and isn't as precise as the native one).

    But still this is an awesome project!

  • docheinestages 21 minutes ago
    What UI library did you use? Looks clean.
  • mrtesthah 1 hour ago
    Cool idea! I approve of the privacy oriented design. But it looks like you didn’t actually test this on iOS as automatic text correction is completely broken.

    Also your website appears to have been written and generated entirely with an LLM. That doesn’t inspire trust.

    • mbreese 54 minutes ago
      There’s no better way to get a lot of testers than to have a Show HN.

      I’ll confirm - there are cursor bugs on iOS. Both on newlines and autocorrect.

      I’m personally more forgiving of an LLM “helped” site, if it looks like there was a human in the loop for the process. An LLM has more context about the design goals and architecture than the reader, so if it’s an informative page, I’m not personally bothered.

      But I’m probably in the minority.

      • mrtesthah 8 minutes ago
        A human is needed to show how app’s technical features are relevant to a particular audience with a shared social context. As the LLM is not (and should not ever be) a participant in that social environment, any marketing it generates will almost certainly land as tone deaf or presumptuous.
  • fwip 58 minutes ago
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  • prodmevin 3 days ago
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  • LoganDark 30 minutes ago
    Definitely not comfortable with it creating a server-side identity for me on first open without any sort of confirmation prompt. Closed immediately because I can't imagine I'd want anything that'd be used for before I've even gotten to try anything.