stewfortier

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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer to build an AI-native doc editor(ycombinator.com)
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Type (YC W23) is hiring a senior software engineer(ycombinator.com)
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Annotations for Controllable Generative Speech Models(wellsaid-labs.github.io)
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Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer(ycombinator.com)
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Appreciate it!
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Agree on each suggestions. I’m especially excited about building #2, which I think is a fairly subtle, hard problem to solve.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Appreciate the feedback on pricing! Will keep this mind as I imagine we'll offer a wider range of options in the future.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Yes! We do support basic image blocks today, but the idea is that we’ll integrate generative media types as new image/video/audio models become more reliable & stable.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Unfortunately, everything but the AI works offline. Though, maybe that's a feature if you're planning a more mellow retreat :)
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by stewfortier 3y ago
That's fair! At a minimum, we probably should start saying "Type.ai" more often than just "Type."
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Haha tough crowd. (Yes)
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by stewfortier 3y ago
We knew we wanted it and we figured there are more people like us out there.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Agreed! We’ve begun exploring some ways to do that.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Yep, we’ve acquired hundreds of paying customers since launching about a month ago. And we don’t see the market here as “people who hire writers” — we see it as “people who must write to get paid.”
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by stewfortier 3y ago
No worries! I really appreciate you giving it a closer look, and I’m glad our general philosophy seems to resonate. Please shoot me an email if you ever try it and have any feedback. I’m [Firstname] @ type.ai.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
We feel similarly. There are a lot of products in this space. Very few are enjoyable to use, though.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
We think about that a lot! I think this reply from my co-founder summarizes our answer well: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35442714
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by stewfortier 3y ago
The honest answer is that it'll be hard for us to answer that until we try out what they've built!
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by stewfortier 3y ago
We thought it was pretty descriptive and at least as imaginative as "Word" or "Docs." But we're open to suggestions!
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Because we're still figuring it out and it takes a while to build new stuff (not a great answer, I know - but it's the honest one)
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Thanks! Claude seems to be especially strong with creative writing and writing in a wider breadth of styles, which ends up being really important.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
It should support pretty much any language! The commands will attempt to generate text in whatever language is already in the document (though, it's certainly not perfect yet and will sometimes return English no matter what).
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Stefan pretty much captured my perspective! I might just add a couple of related things: We have a subtle but important difference in focus compared to a product like Notion. We're not aiming to build the best knowledge or workplace ma
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by stewfortier 3y ago
To each their own :). I do think it's a big space and plenty of folks will find ChatGPT helpful enough to not warrant a more vertical / specific solution like ours.
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Glad you've been enjoying it. I'm continually surprised by how much more I feel I can do working with ChatGPT/AI in a doc editor interface versus exclusively chat (though each have their unique drawbacks).
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by stewfortier 3y ago
We will need to develop more sophisticated pricing and monitoring to make sure this doesn't get abused. For now, we haven't noticed any nefarious usage - but that's partially just a function of us just being small / unde
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Too much. Mid-five figures
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by stewfortier 3y ago
This is something we're very excited about building. We haven't shipped it yet, but we have a pretty clear roadmap to get there. Stay tuned!
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by stewfortier 3y ago
Yep! We're definitely not the only show in town. I'd love to know if there are any Lex features you prefer over Type.

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