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From what you have written, it actually sounds like Kraa 'might' be for you.

> I want the process of moving what I've written from the initial medium to online and publicly accessible to be as quick and painless as possible. With Kraa this is a matter of one click.

> If not, then... I just want it to be a file. Something I can save, archive, move, or whatever, like any other file. And this is more nuanced, but Kraa isn't using any proprietary file system. You can export your leaves to .md any time. Though it's not the same as e.g. Obsidian where it is literally a local file.


I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to say with this. That we need marketing to succeed? Or that the product has too much marketing (where?) and low quality?

Thanks! The whole app is raven-themed. "Kraa" is the sound a raven makes in many languages and is a reasonably short name. It's not anyhow deeper than that.

Is it a reference to "The Raven Scholar" as well? (A great novel!)

This is embarrassing and a recent regression on the latest update. Thanks for the report, we will fix this.

Could you please expand on this? Showing only the features you need is pretty much what we tried to do. Keeping the writing UI minimal and distraction-free.

What you see now will always be free. In 2026 we will introduce a 'pro' tier that will increase storage space for media/images and additional advanced features.

No self-hosting planned for now.


No, it is not. But that's high on the list of things we're focusing on.

Example of the real-real-time chat: https://kraa.io/hackernews

I couldn't see the value of this application until I went on this link and saw the euphoria. Whatever this means, there's certainly a place for unfiltered, unmoderated "anonymous" chat. This is promising, but I still don't understand why it always had to end in penis.

Anyway, I liked this. Consider making sent messages as immutable, it's very distracting people editing old messages.


Timestamp overlaps with the edge of messages on Safari 18.6 on MacOS 14.8.2.

Shows a lot of confidence in their own service when they link to their "main" chatroom on another live chat provider.

This went to hell fairly quickly

Everyone learns some important lessons the first time they allow user-generated content on the public internet, particularly if you're brave enough to allow so without any login :) It's a rite of passage at this point I think, lucky OP :)

I’m reminded, by the ascii art d’s, about a metric used in game dev where users can shape content, something to the effect of time to penis (TTP): defined as the time from tool availability to when users abuse said tool to craft dong.

Supposedly it’s pretty quick.


Really? IMO it went about as well as I expected given the audience.

Lots of these discussions are simplifying design to 'making things look pretty'. That's just not true for even the more visual-based design disciplines like graphic design. And the 'regular' product design (ux/ui/ixd) happening in most tech companies has very little of this compared to the rest of the scope of what a designer really does.

Product design isn't a layer that you apply. It's not an output of some prompt. It's a difficult-to-define process of crafting the interface between the user and product's functionality.


I’m a product designer and this is what I’ve noticed:

- When I use AI to vibe-code, it gives me a usable result but I personally have no idea if the output is “correct”. I am not sure if there are security vulnerabilities, I don’t know what is actually happening under the hood to make it work, etc.

- When my engineering friends use AI to vibe-design, I notice the same pattern. It looks “designed” but there are obvious usability issues, pattern mismatches for common user goals, and the UI lacks an overall sense of polish.

Basically, my takeaway is that AI is great for spinning things up quickly but it is not a replacement for fundamentals or craft.


I think it's trivially true that (at present moment) AI can deliver an average result, which makes it useful in domains you are below average but not useful for domains in which you are good at.


As much as I still dislike Liquid Glass, this is insanely impressive!


Agreed!


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