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Atavist

A web-based word processor as beautiful as Medium

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Thomas Rhiel
@thomasrhiel · Director of reader experience, Atavist
By the way, we didn’t write the tagline for this post. Medium’s great, but “is this as beautiful as Medium?” isn’t the question we had in mind when we built Atavist.

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Thomas Rhiel
@thomasrhiel · Director of reader experience, Atavist
By the way, we didn’t write the tagline for this post. Medium’s great, but “is this as beautiful as Medium?” isn’t the question we had in mind when we built Atavist.
Dan Kaplan
@dankaplan · I help startups tell their stories.
Not as beautiful as Medium. The interface is way less intuitive/fluid/elegant, though it is in some ways more powerful. You can add more effects (like parallax) so the idea of "Snowfall in the cloud" is more realized here. The most interesting part of this is the "sell your work" component. Unlike Medium, which does have some distribution benefits that Ata… See more
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Thomas Rhiel
@thomasrhiel · Director of reader experience, Atavist
Hi! I’m on the small team that made Atavist. If you haven’t already, you should go to https://atavist.com/playground and play around with it. Once there, check out title designs (layouts we’ve made for your project’s title) and blocks (images, video, embeds, interactive charts, etc. you can add to your project). Both of these were made with version 0.8 of … See more
Noah Chestnut
@noahchestnut · Product @BleacherReport
@ThomasRhiel - really love the mobile preview y'all built when choosing a project title design.
Thomas Marban
@thomas · Creator
There's also the relatively simpler http://www.postagon.com for the more novice users.