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Cool project, kudos to the author! For those bashing it with "it is a simple OCR", which is somehow standard HN elitism I must say, a couple of things. First, i
by dig1 5y ago
Cool project, kudos to the author! For those bashing it with "it is a simple OCR", which is somehow standard HN elitism I must say, a couple of things. First, it is a well-thought project: besides online blog hosting, you have a mobile app AND you get a free notebook. Also, great explanation videos.
Someone will say "meh" for this, but if you started and shipped the project (I doubt many of those haters did), these tiny things take ages to finish, especially if you rely on external partners like someone shipping a custom notebook. Not something you can code in your favorite editor.
Second thing: I lurk around fountain pen and notebook/journal communities, where people handwrite a lot. These people spend a lot of money on fine instruments (Pilot Custom 823 ~ $300, Namiki Maki-e ~ $1000) and excellent paper (e.g. Clairefontaine), so they prefer a pleasant and well-around experience rather than something cheap. I see projects like paperwrite.com can bring a lot for them because they can easily "capture" parts from their journal, and suddenly they have a blog post. This community isn't big (however, I noticed a little bit raising trend with going analog and offline), but you will have most of them as long-time customers if something is well done.
A couple of suggestions for the author: 1) Support for italics and other handwriting styles. It is a challenging problem. 2) Support for other languages (even harder). 3) Markdown syntax straight from the notebook would be very cool.