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IO — A light-weight and powerful editor for authentic writing
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https://bold.io/when-truth-is-re...
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 @meanJim, @SirBenLee, and myself – and we have much more to come in the near future! Meanwhile, please do email me at d@bold.io or iMessage me at 949-278-6005 if you have any questions/suggestions or just want to talk product. :-)
Meanwhile, kick the tires at https://bold.io today, bookmark it for later and publish freely any time. 👊
More info: https://bold.io/about-io-2016-12-06
P.S., this link is fun: https://bold.io/random
@davidbyttow @meanjim @sirbenlee @bold gotta say, I really enjoyed writing the press release for this tweet on IO.
@davidbyttow @bold very clean editor, saw it's in React. Any plans to open source it?
@davidbyttow, this is beautiful! Would be perfect if the Grammarly extension worked with it. Any chance of that happening in the future?
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!
Congrats on the launch @davidbyttow ! 😄 can you talk about the evolution from secret and what inspired you to go this direction with bold, out of all the things you could have built?
@eriktorenberg Thanks Erik! The inspiration for this was pretty straightforward: It's the intersection of the fact that we built some cool technology paired with a beautiful design (for companies) and that I believe in safe spaces to publish ones thoughts. I just want to bring this tech to everyone in the most simple way possible, and go from there.
The biggest difference with IO versus something like Medium/Secret/etc is that there is no network by design (currently). It's up to the author to share however they see fit.
That said, this is only step one of many steps that we intend to take as this particular project was started less than two weeks ago. :-)
Hey @davidbyttow, I really love the interface & ambience add on - works great with my ADD :) 💯
What I could not really understand is the need / purpose for anonymous publishing.
Congrats! I like the minimal interface :) The software engineer in me is wondering what is it built on/with? @davidbyttow Will there be any way to browse articles or is that the point of the platform?
Lordie, but this is sheer dope! Has to be the cleanest product I've seen on PH for awhile...
Minimal but fully thought out...absolutely loved playing around with it.
Nice touch with the Hemingway API integration...maybe Grammarly as a down-the-line feature? Would really tie it all together...
Great stuff @davidbyttow !
Inline Hemingway assistant is so awesome! Nice work, guys.
Already published 😁 https://bold.io/boldio-launches-...
Terrific writing experience. Could you provide some hints at where this is heading though? I like the anonymity option, but I also like the interface enough to want to explore using it as an actual blog—any plans to facilitate that? Post archives, custom URLs, etc.? Nothing too crazy, just a bit of extra structure around identity to make it possible, kind of like Svbtle did.
@mostlymarius I think the obvious first step for us was to take something that we built for companies, and demonstrate that it is viable for the simplest use case: saying whatever you want freely.
There are a lot of possibilities for the future. I like your ideas! I'd like to think we're focused on providing a tool to freely express and publish on IO. Then with CO focusing on standing out and understanding the voice within your organization.
Last month @davidbyttow mentioned on Facebook:
This looks much different than Secret but follows a similar mission.
@davidbyttow -- 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?
This looks much different than Secret but follows a similar mission.
@davidbyttow -- 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?@rrhoover 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)
@davidbyttow no worries. :) I like that you've combined features from similar publishing tools, like Hemingway Editor and Noisli.
Now can you add an AI bot to do all the writing for me? 🙏🏼
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