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Deekshith Allamaneni

Easy Write - Write clearly using only 1,000 commonly used words

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Ryan Hoover
Mac app, Cleartext, received 500+ upvotes last week. Awesome job translating this to the web, @adeekshith.
Daniel Pichel
I love the approach (and of course I also like Cleartext). But I am worried: when writing a text you might not have time to thing about better words to replace the highlights. I think a logic iteration is a word recommendation. What do you think?
Deekshith Allamaneni
Maker
@danielpichel Yeah, I agree. That would be great! But I am not sure how difficult/easy it would be to implement it. I will search if there is any freely available thesaurus database or API which we can use to get it done. I am thinking, its implementation should be similar to spelling correction auto suggest in text editors except that it suggests easier words instead of spelling correction. What do you think?
Daniel Pichel
@adeekshith Yes, you got it right. Maybe it's a bit more complicated. Even if you had an API to a thesaurus service you might need to map these to your 1,000 words. I haven't thought it through yet but I think it's possible to automate that somehow. Something like this doesn't exist at all I guess and it would be a huge differentiator for your app.
Andreas Ecker
Well done! I like the idea of keeping messages simple and easy to understand. Two ideas: - Would be nice to see the rank of the words - A nice feature would be that the user can set the number of commonly used words by themself (e.g. up to 100,000)
Deekshith Allamaneni
Maker
@picasecond_andreas Yeah, that would be nice. Will work on it this week. Thanks. :)
Deekshith Allamaneni
Maker
Hello product hunters! I am the maker of this. EasyWrite is web based and works on all major browsers. Read more about EasyWrite: http://www.deekshith.in/2016/04/... It is not yet done. Here are the planned improvements: - Ability to save files - More language support - Multiple color highlighting to indicate how uncommon the word is And check the code on Github: https://github.com/adeekshith/ea... Please let me know what you think. Thanks :)
Roman
That was fast. Could this be done for Windows?
Deekshith Allamaneni
Maker
@romanzadyrako Can do it for windows but the EasyWrite is web based and so already available for all platforms.
Csaba Kissi
Interesting idea. I'll try it myself.
Deekshith Allamaneni
Maker
@csaba_kissi Glad you liked it 😀
Jonah Engler
This is a cool product!
Patrick Callahan
Isn't this just the same thing as https://xkcd.com/simplewriter/ ?
Jake Wetton
Amazing! I know a certain few companies that should use this and stop trying to use big words they don't quite understand to make them sound like big boys.
Lisha Shekhar
Awsum Product Mr. Allamaneni...so proud of you!!