I'm clocking in at 5.1MB which is still huge, but 4.4MB are from images alone. However their biggest image is a 2.8MB 24-bit monster PNG. That really could be a JPEG, with moderate compression it could come in at only a few hundred kilobyes I think.
Why this gets so many upvotes? Just out of curiosity to know what it is (though personally it does not excite me)?
It's a bloated site - bold [0], people do not understand what it is [1][2], seems like a Medium clone [3], it does not seem to solve any problems [4].
To add from myself, to block ambient noise I launch my preferred music player with my likeable music, which blocks noise and does not distract me (same with many colleagues of mine), IMHO it's useless feature to have ambient music in you word processor.
Also, do we really need another (too) clean, (too) minimalistic, hipster writing/blogging platform, which looks like Medium clone and is probably 'made with <3 in Bay Area/NYC/Seattle/whatever (c)'?
After reading over their landing page a few times, I think that this is writing assistant "service". You start writing out your proposal and some automated "asssistant, not a bot" is supposed to analyze your writing and provide suggestions to make it more memorizable and easy to understand (group this into 3 phrases instead of sentences. Remove this adverb. Change this sentence from passive to active). I assume once you write it up, it gives you the ability to share your masterpiece as a link, possibly export to word/pdf/stone tablet.
Much like Microsoft's Clippy, the idea is pretty sound, but a bad implementation will make it more of an annoyance than a feature. Given the confused meandering of their landing page, I don't have much hope for their product.
> 'Bold aims to provide the best experience for reading and writing long-form content at work so that your best ideas can be heard.'
Seems like an unique and interesting product. My work doesn't involve writing 'long-form content', so I'm not in the target market but I didn't find it hard to work out what it does.
"Hi! It looks like you're trying to recycle an idea from the late 90's into yet another SaaS product. Would you like to (a) post to HN a bloated landing page with almost no details, (b) collect email addresses, or (c) both?"
I can definitely see how this could be useful for teams that create content collaboratively. When our team works on release notes, blog posts, support articles, etc we use a combination of Slack and Google Docs.
After editing, we post to tumblr (product updates), Medium (blog/marketing) or any one of half a dozen other places where we out stuff. Bold feels to me like Medium with bonus collaboration features + integrations. Tools like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ built in sound awesome. Add in the ability to create your own assistants (import brand assets, pull up GitHub issues, insert content from your YouTube channel, find the right gif for this paragraph) and it adds up to a much more centralized writing experience for modern work-related content creation.
As an aside: I do not like the idea behind the Hemingway app. Editing prose is not the same as debugging code. Removing adverbs will not make you a good writer. And the whole idea of having some bot making automated comments on my text as I write it sounds distracting at best.
If you want to write better, write more. And let people read your writing. Hear what they have to say. Style handbooks like "Writing with Style" or "The Elements of Style" are great, but you should attempt to understand the reasons they behind their recommendations, not just use them as a mindless checklist.
The content is served in a span in a span in 11 nested divs in a span in a section in 2 more nested divs -- at least it looks nice.
The "discuss on slack" feature is pretty neat. The thought of being able to hop into a discussion with people on a topic rather than making static posts would be cool.
How many times does the user need to read the page before they discover what bold.io even is? I'm at about five now and just want to know before I move on to my sixth.
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It's a bloated site - bold [0], people do not understand what it is [1][2], seems like a Medium clone [3], it does not seem to solve any problems [4].
To add from myself, to block ambient noise I launch my preferred music player with my likeable music, which blocks noise and does not distract me (same with many colleagues of mine), IMHO it's useless feature to have ambient music in you word processor.
Also, do we really need another (too) clean, (too) minimalistic, hipster writing/blogging platform, which looks like Medium clone and is probably 'made with <3 in Bay Area/NYC/Seattle/whatever (c)'?
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858972
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859159
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11859201
[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858750
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11858795
[+] [-] ytjohn|9 years ago|reply
Much like Microsoft's Clippy, the idea is pretty sound, but a bad implementation will make it more of an annoyance than a feature. Given the confused meandering of their landing page, I don't have much hope for their product.
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The second paragraph.
Seems like an unique and interesting product. My work doesn't involve writing 'long-form content', so I'm not in the target market but I didn't find it hard to work out what it does.[+] [-] undoware|9 years ago|reply
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Was slightly disappointed.
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After editing, we post to tumblr (product updates), Medium (blog/marketing) or any one of half a dozen other places where we out stuff. Bold feels to me like Medium with bonus collaboration features + integrations. Tools like http://www.hemingwayapp.com/ built in sound awesome. Add in the ability to create your own assistants (import brand assets, pull up GitHub issues, insert content from your YouTube channel, find the right gif for this paragraph) and it adds up to a much more centralized writing experience for modern work-related content creation.
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If you want to write better, write more. And let people read your writing. Hear what they have to say. Style handbooks like "Writing with Style" or "The Elements of Style" are great, but you should attempt to understand the reasons they behind their recommendations, not just use them as a mindless checklist.
Craft your own voice.
[+] [-] wcarss|9 years ago|reply
The "discuss on slack" feature is pretty neat. The thought of being able to hop into a discussion with people on a topic rather than making static posts would be cool.
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