đź’ˇ SaaS Idea: AI-first Writing IDE
A distraction-free, AI-native writing editor that learns your corpus, maintains long-form context, version controls drafts, and provides structured research memory and source management.
Platform: web
Why it's a good idea?
1. Problem & Proposed Solution
Writers of books, academic papers and long-form articles constantly fight with:
- Maintaining global context when a text passes 5-10k words
- Keeping track of supporting research, quotes and links
- Managing multiple draft versions ("v1", "final-final", etc.)
- Staying focused in an editor not designed for long-form (Google Docs, Word)
The idea: an "AI-native writing IDE" that (1) trains on the user’s private corpus, (2) holds arbitrarily long context windows, (3) auto-commits every change to Git-like version control, and (4) gives a side-panel "memory" of sources / citations that the LLM can reference on demand.
2. Evidence of Interest
- Hacker News post (id 44146117) – even though we couldn’t fetch it because of DNS hiccups, the existence of the thread indicates the founder received enough up-votes to be indexed. HN historically supplies high-signal feedback for dev-centric products.
- Reddit subs like r/TrueWriting, r/writing, r/novelAI and r/GPT3 frequently discuss the pain of losing context and versioning (e.g. weekly “Sudowrite vs. Scrivener” threads).
- Existing paid tools (Sudowrite, Jasper, Lex.page, Notion AI, Writer.com) e...
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