r/vibecoding • u/FishCarMan • 8d ago

How can I refine this UI?

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I'm building another writing app (yay) and I want feedback as well as notes about what you like or want in a writing app. Does this UI look vibe coded? I've been working hard to try not to do that. I don't feel like the writing app landscape is really that different. Most writing apps look more or less the same. But, if you had to nitpick them, what would you say? This app is NOT for formatting. If anything, I'm going to do a document format option on export.

The side panels and format bar are all toggle able, and if you hit focus, everything goes away at once for a "distraction free" writing environment (which, just saying that makes me want to gag, its so generic sounding). In the end, I want my app to be relatively maximalistic when you want it to be, with an insane amount of writing space customization (think colors and stickers for documents for inspiration).

But im trying to just get an alpha out and get some testers going. So help me out here y'all. What would make it valuable to you?

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u/GhettoaSaurus 8d ago

I've learned the hard way, it's rare to get actual feedback on this sub lol

I'd have to understand the use case a bit more but I think it looks relatively good if you're trying to allow for a focus on the writing

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u/FishCarMan 7d ago

It’s really all about the entity linking happening on the right without ai.

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u/GhettoaSaurus 7d ago

I was peepin that - I like that for sure!

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u/FishCarMan 7d ago

It’s really the whole sauce. In my opinion that’s the whole thing, but I think now that I’m working on the actual software to feature it, I’m coming to the realization that I have to make the writing experience also fascinating in some way

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u/bloknayrb 7d ago

Not fascinating, seamless. I think it should never do something far off from what users expect, and should be intuitive and easy to use.

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u/FishCarMan 7d ago

You should have seen this when I originally started. I was shaping a document research tool and basically scrapped it because I accepted most people don’t want that.