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IO - A light-weight and powerful editor for authentic writing

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Hello! 👋 Today we're launching IO: a free, lightweight editor for creative and authentic publishing. ✍️ It's extremely easy to use and allows you to publish anonymously, under a pseudonym, or as yourself. Our vision is to make writing and sharing your thoughts easier than ever. The editor is a little rough around the edges, so be gentle (many improvements are on the way!). We plan to build on this idea in the coming weeks and months. This is your blank canvas. This project (started only a couple weeks ago!) is brought to you by , , and myself – and we have much more to come in the near future! Meanwhile, please do email me at or iMessage me at 949-278-6005 if you have any questions/suggestions or just want to talk product. :-) Meanwhile, kick the tires at today, bookmark it for later and publish freely any time. 👊 More info: P.S., this link is fun:
gotta say, I really enjoyed writing the press release for on IO.
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it is a genius press release :)
very clean editor, saw it's in React. Any plans to open source it?
, this is beautiful! Would be perfect if the Grammarly extension worked with it. Any chance of that happening in the future?
Looking forward to trying it :)
Congrats on the launch, . I love the ambience feature. 💯
Maker
thanks! That was a fun little experiment. :)
What are the differences between IO and Telegraph? To me both seem to be the same 😁
Maker
Telegraph is cool! I think both have similar goals, we started simple just like Telegraph, but are going in a different direction (I think). Of course, we also put a lot more emphasis on Twitter (with Twitter auth) and some cool stuff to follow. Watch this space!
Yeah social integrations could help distinguish, just at first when I launched the app it looked almost the same as Telegraph (at least what I remember from like a month ago when it launched and clicked on it)
Maker
I agree! But I think we look better. 😎
what is the different direction?
Last month mentioned : This looks much different than Secret but follows a similar mission. -- Is IO an experiment for your new startup, Bold, or is this what you've planned from the beginning when you started the new venture?
Maker
hey Ryan, I wish I could say this has been part of a master plan, but this is something we decided to do just a couple weeks ago with the technology we had built for Bold. There's a few more things we have in store over the coming months that build on this idea. Step one was to release the simplest form of our editor possible to the community and get feedback. Excited! To be clear, this is not what I was referring to in this post, that's coming and this will fit into it. (sorry for being all mysterious, haha)
no worries. :) I like that you've combined features from similar publishing tools, like and . Now can you add an AI bot to do all the writing for me? 🙏🏼
Just wait :)
IO/Bold easily has the best writing & editing experience on the web. 👏
Maker
🙌 🙌 🙌 , we look up to you guys!
This looks absolutely beautiful! I love how it has ambience settings, a Hemingway editor, Twitter auth. The editor itself is awesome. It's a really great product 👌
Maker
Thank you Kabir! 🙏
I love that too!
Love the idea of anonymous publishing to test my ideas & content before putting a name to it! Question - if Medium adds that as a feature, does it change anything?
Maker
Exactly! My little brother has been doing this with his friends on IO and loving it. As for Medium, I think it would be difficult to just add this as a feature to a product that is so far entrenched in its own network. That said, I don't think so because we have some cool stuff coming down the pike!
that's fair. I think the two could compliment each other quite well too (test on IO, publish on Medium?) Can't wait to see what else you have & start using IO :D Thanks for giving us this David!
Inline Hemingway assistant is so awesome! Nice work, guys. Already published 😁
Maker
thank you! Just wait until you see our next assistant! :-)
can you give any hints? ;)
Love it, love it, love it! Minimalism, built-in Hemingway and ambient sounds, which you could think is just a gimmick, but fits so bloody well!
Maker
thank you for those kind words!
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Hey all, was just reading your feedback and just rolled out a new change: If you add #hidden or #private to your posts, they won't appear in /random or /latest. Enjoy!
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