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Show HN: 16 year olds building an AI-powered Integrated Writing Environment (factful.io)
12 points by Jainish08 on Nov 14, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
Hey HN! Jainish here—super excited to share that my friends and I have just launched Factful, an Integrated Writing Environment (IWE) that many of you helped shape with your feedback.

For those who missed our last post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40222051), we shared an early version of Factful and were amazed to see over 20,000 users giving it a try. Since then, we’ve been hard at work refining the platform based on your suggestions. Factful is now a complete IWE that offers everything you need to write, edit, and fact-check in one streamlined environment, helping you stay productive and ensure every piece is accurate and credible. It also provides grammar & suggestions based on writing style & locale, along with personalized analytics. We also support google drive integration, our google auth is in the process of getting approved. Rich text editor and chrome extension is also in development.

For businesses and teams, Factful offers custom B2B features tailored to meet organizational needs. These include advanced usage analytics, dev API, and and an admin dashboard that allows team leaders to oversee account settings, manage workflows, and customize Factful’s toolset for their specific goals. Whether you're working on internal documentation, marketing materials, or research-heavy projects, Factful enables seamless collaboration and high-quality content creation across your team. We also offer a custom fact-checking AI model to correct employee-written text on internal knowledge set (invoices, company policies, receipts, etc.)

One of our standout features is the inline forward-slash commands, which make your workflow even faster. Commands like /search (for web lookups, including academic papers), /translate, /paraphrase, and /synonym or /antonym help you research, refine, and adjust your writing seamlessly (many more to come!) Here’s a guide: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ovm2b5KOke7Ng94P5MVTDSyJ...

For a limited time, we’re offering free premium access so that everyone can try out these features at no cost. We’d love for you to give Factful a try, whether you’re an individual user or a business looking for smarter writing solutions. Your feedback has been invaluable, and we can’t wait to hear more! Thanks for helping us make Factful the best it can be!



I'm not so sure deferring research and fact checking should be left up to AI if Google's AI search results are any indication.

I do like the synonym and antonym features, though I'd love to pick from a list instead of grabbing a random word out of the bag.


Thank you for checking it out! We currently don’t use Google’s AI search result or “AI overview” but rather verified sources or certain sources that have a tag on their site (for edu, for gov, news, etc) along with RAG. We will work on adding an option where the user can pick words for /syn and /ant or it auto inserts using previous context (like /search does).


This looks amazing! Showed this to my CS prof and he was blown away by how accurate it was. Hoping to see this in the mainstream soon!


Thank you so much!! We hope to reach there too!




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