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Show HN: Kraa – Writing App for Everything

submitted by levmis+(OP) on 2025-12-04 07:35:10 | 124 points 70 comments
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Hello HN! We're a team of three building a new kind of web-based markdown editor.

There are many editors out there, so one is spoiled for choice, but Kraa's approach is a little different. It's trying to be both a minimal and distraction-free experience while being feature-rich and allowing for tons of use cases.

What Kraa's good for:

- Distraction-free writing & reading (minimal UI, performant, styling logic completely separated from the editing experience)

- Quick sharing of any written text – compared to many other writing tools, your content can be easily shared just by posting a link and giving 'read' or 'edit' access (we also have password-protection)

- Real-time chat / communities – Kraa has some unique features around real-time editing and our Chat widget allows for a frictionless chat experience. No send button.

- Kraa works well on mobile (though dedicated apps are planned)

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Demo examples (all live, no login needed):

Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibrary

Long-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekick

Magazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspiration

Kraa is built on top of ProseMirror (and TipTap) and Svelte.

You don’t need an account to try Kraa. We’d really appreciate your thoughts and feedback!


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1. levmis+9[view] [source] 2025-12-04 07:36:37
>>levmis+(OP)
Example of the real-real-time chat: https://kraa.io/hackernews
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22. embedd+7z4[view] [source] [discussion] 2025-12-05 15:14:18
>>grvdrm+Kx4
Sorry to be doubting, but are you sure?

I got curious, and looked at the DOM, and seems the editor when empty is just one line of the full page, which if you click anywhere else (like what I did initially, in the middle of the page) the editor can't be focused. Are you sure you clicked in the middle of the page?

Looks like this for me: https://i.imgur.com/DOdiN4o.png

Unless you click that specific rectangle, the editor doesn't focus, isn't it the same in Safari?

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