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Show HN: Kraa.io – Markdown editor for notes, blogs, chats
Hi HN! Excited to share the public beta of Kraa – a web-based markdown editor.
It's aiming to be distraction-free and has strong separation of the document's styling from the experience of writing it — while still alowing for rich customization. Example of a leaf with custom styles: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary
Curious about your feedback in hopes of improving Kraa before the planned launch later this year.
- xcanchal 1y agoNice! Markdown is everything we need
- levmiseri 1y agoHere is a public leaf to showcase how chatting works with Kraa's unique 'writer' role: https://kraa.io/hackernews https://kraa.io/hackernews
- yasir326 1y agoThis is very clean and clutter free. I really like simplicity
- thestepafter 1y agoJust had a great conversation with multiple people, really like the concept displayed in the showcase.
- chrisvalleybay 1y agoWell – chatting in there sure was a fun experience! This gave off Google Wave vibes, back when it launched.
- giosci 1y ago[flagged]
- jm666 1y agoYes, the collaboration & publishing usecases need that; also simpler. We have private (end-to-end encrypted) and p2p documents in the backlog tho.
- samsmithy 1y ago[flagged]
- jm666 1y agoThx. Documents have access control (so you can control who can see the docs / who can collaborate; private by default) and we are responsible, but the content is not end-to-end encrypted if that is what You are asking; we plan to introduce p2p documents and end-to-end encrypted stuff in time.
- samsmithy 1y agoyeah, I was asking for end-to-end encryption only
- patrick4urcloud 1y ago[flagged]
- abdullahajmal 1y agoThe website is cleannnn! Keep up the good work!
- GuillaumeAirGen 1y agoLooks nice! What tangible arguments do you have for me to switch from Notion to Kraa?
- levmiseri 1y agoKraa can't properly compete with Notion, yet. Not on the feature-set. That being said, if you value simpler interface that still has all the core editor features, give it a try! We are also not trying to be a Notion clone/alternative, but rather a different kind of text editor that's highly customizable, has unique features (like the writer role) and keeps strong division between writing and styling.
- voigt 1y agoAppears to me more like a super clean version of hack.md!
- zeroq 1y agoFeedback: backlink is not working as expected, i've tried several times - initially i clicked on sth, clicked back and it got me to "private mode" (new leaf, search), when i tried again and clicked on a one of showcase links and the clicked back twice it brought me back to the "private mode" again, seems quite finicky. EDIT: repro: seems like spa app tries to be smart about browser.history - just click random things and try to use back button
- jm666 1y agoThx, will fix!
- mrweasel 1y agoWhat's the point of editors like this. It looks really well done, but it's not the first, and I don't see the point of any of them. I don't get why I would need a web-based editor (markdown or other formats). I can perhaps see the point in a collaboration editor, but that's a special case. Where's the "save" button? Where is my stuff stored? After clicking around a bit I got stuff in the edit mode and now I can't get back to the frontpage. Perhaps this is an age thing, but files goes on my hard drive, I organise them using a file manager. Files shouldn't be stuck in a browser. It says I can write blog posts, but how do I export files to my blog? Is there Wordpress integration? Git?
- jm666 1y agoIt is a collaborative document, saved live in a same way as google docs (with offline local support coming, if You are out of cell). The benefit is to have a simple way to create colab documents, with invite logic, which can be used for different purposes seamlessly - private notes, shared todo-lists, password protected gallery, read-only blog post, chat. We will have markdown / keep / ... import of the notes, a bit later, but that is not probably what You meant with file uploads. The front-page navigation needs care, thx for feedback.
- mrweasel 1y agoThanks. No the import of notes is not what I had in mind :-) I always want to be storing files locally, or on a network share. Having this being intended as a collaboration tool makes sense, but if I'm the sole user, then it's just another place to store my files, which can't be shared or accessed by any other tool. That's my objection, and why I question the usefulness of something like this. You're siloing of data, which makes no sense to me (well it doesn't, it's the only way this can really work in the browser). My question about the usefulness is sincere. I truly don't get why anyone would want to work in the browser like this, but I also dislike Google Docs. I'm just not the target audience, so I struggle to see how or why something like this would be useful. The functionality is really well done, I'd just wish it was a desktop application, and stored files on my hard drive.
- frank20022 1y agoLooks nice, but what is the value proposition? Why this versus many other distraction free editors?
- jm666 1y agoThanks. I'd say: simple access control (== easy to invite friends, publish as blog, password-protect), flexible document structure & roles (todos, notes, chat, image board, ...), pretty great image gallery, visual styling separated from content (cleaner UX).
- bertocast 1y agoI have been looking for something similar for a while. Thanks for this.
- gugocharade 1y ago[flagged]
- alexnewman 1y agoseems down
- Ettaa 1y agoFeels like I’ve rehydrated a long-dormant thread—my desire to write is back online.
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- kebokyo 1y ago[flagged]
- dang 1y agoCan you please not be a jerk on HN, especially when responding to someone's work? It's poisonous to the community we're trying to have here. You can make your substantive points thoughtfully, so please do that instead. The Show HN guidelines try to make this clear: see the "In Comments" section of https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
- djbelieny 1y agoOk, this may get downvoted but if you are Brazilian and specially from Rio de Janeiro, and you're reading this domain name, you are 100% laughing at this name. Pejorative to some, but funny AF.