Hey Product Hunt!
We're building Granthos - an AI-powered LaTeX editor and will be launching it here soon.
Before we go live, I'd love to understand the community's real pain points.
My hypothesis: Most people avoid LaTeX because:
- Syntax errors take forever to debug
- Learning curve is too steep
- Existing tools are either too basic or too complex
- AI tools like ChatGPT require constant copy-pasting
But I might be wrong!
For those who use (or avoid) LaTeX:
1. What's the #1 thing that frustrates you?
2. Have you tried AI-assisted LaTeX editing? What worked/didn't work?
3. What would make LaTeX actually enjoyable to use?
Early access: granthOS
Really curious to hear your experiences - the good, the bad, and the "why does this error even exist?!"
Akshat
Hey Product Hunt! π
I'm Akshat
spent years fighting LaTeX instead of actually writing research.
So I built the thing I wish existed.
The problem is embarrassingly familiar: You open Overleaf. You open ChatGPT. You spend 45 minutes copy-pasting between tabs and debugging \begin{equation} with no matching \end. Your actual research sits untouched.
LaTeX got Grammarly'd by nobody. Code editors got Copilot. LaTeX is still 1994.
Granthos is LaTeX for the AI era.
Generate from a prompt: "Write an IEEE paper on neural networks" β complete, properly formatted document in 30 seconds.
granthOS AI Assistant: Built on Latex expert AI. It doesn't suggest edits, it makes them. "Add a comparison table" β done, live, in your doc.
Smart error detection: Catches 95% of compilation errors before you even hit compile, and explains fixes in plain English.
The results so far: Early users are going from 4+ hours per document to under 30 minutes.
We'd genuinely love your input:
What's your worst LaTeX horror story?
Do you lean toward generating from scratch or AI-assisted editing of existing drafts?
Researchers: would arXiv submission integration be a game-changer?
We're here all day. Brutal honesty welcome we're early and it actually matters.
Akshat & the Granthos team π
AutonomyAI
Finally someone made LaTeX not feel like a punishment. The chat-based generation is a really clever angle for research workflows.
@lev_kerzhnerΒ Yes it is, Thanks
Hey Product Hunt π
We are drowning in information but starving for structured knowledge. That thought led us to build GranthOS.
GranthOS is our attempt to turn scattered notes, PDFs, and resources into a clean knowledge operating system that actually helps you learn, recall, and use information when it matters.
We built this because we faced the same problem ourselves. Too many tools store information. Very few help you truly use it.
Today, we are excited (and a bit nervous π ) to share GranthOS with the Product Hunt community.
Would love your honest feedback. What works, what does not, and what you wish it could do.
If you like the idea, an upvote would mean a lot to us π
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