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249 points rpastuszak | 5 comments | | HN request time: 0.665s | source

Ensō is a writing tool that helps you enter a state of flow by separating writing from editing and thus making it harder for you to edit yourself - https://enso.sonnet.io/

After 6 years and 2 million words of daily writing I feel like I've learned enough to make Ensō simpler and more accessible.

Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38025073

1. sam1r ◴[] No.44422851[source]
To the OP: Great product, at least can you update the description text to guide newcomers with some user persona.

We don't know what it is based on the description, so even the simplest "Try xyz" or even some goal would help us discover what it is.

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2. sam1r ◴[] No.44422862[source]
Just trying to maximize your efforts... to optimize for first-time user usability, unveil to yourself regular use cases for your users, etc.
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4. rpastuszak ◴[] No.44424138[source]
Thanks!

I've collected a lot of high quality feedback over the years*, plus have defined user personas/problem areas (examples: writers, developers, neurospicy folk, people working on their mental health through journalling/expressive writing, YouTubers, video essay creators, ...).

Over the next few weeks/months I will continue writing/thinking about those on untested.sonnet.io (working with the garage door up, so to speak).

Then, once I come up with more terse/clear ways of expressing this -- I'll put it on the product page (https://enso.sonnet.io)

* thanks to relying on an email link over analytics in the app

5. rpastuszak ◴[] No.44424193[source]
Yeah, to be frank, this was intended to be more of a devlog entry for the people who already know my work/follow me on untested and I didn't expect any responses on HN. Still, that's a big lesson for me, I shouldn't have made that assumption posting here. People have been really kind and responsive in my experience.

I think this is also a problem of framing.