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Show HN: Promptly – Collaborative AI Writing

4 pointsby wkoszekabout 2 months ago
Adam and Wojciech here. We&#x27;ve been hacking away on Knowbase.one - our B2b search engine - for about 8 weeks now. Something weird happened during our coffee sync-ups: we realized the AI had basically become our third co-founder. We&#x27;d huddle with our laptops, draft prompts in Google Docs, feed them to Claude, then paste the responses back. Like pair programming, but with a machine that doesn&#x27;t drink coffee.<p>This workflow worked, but was clunky. We&#x27;d be building our actual product while simultaneously talking about how there should be a better way to do this with some tool for AI collaboration. We tried some existing solutions, but everything was too complex for us. We took a detour and hacked together Promptly - basically a shared Google Doc for humans talking to AI. It&#x27;s what we wished we had when we were passing laptops back and forth trying to show each other &quot;check out what happens when you phrase it this way.&quot;<p>We&#x27;ve shown it to some friends and the pattern is clear: folks who don’t use AI or use it for production work have no idea what’s this for :) Those that already talk to AI a lot get it right away. Especially when they&#x27;re trying to teach other people how to prompt properly. You know that frustration when someone&#x27;s doing it wrong and you want to grab their keyboard? That&#x27;s what we&#x27;re fixing.<p>And it&#x27;s not just for us nerds. Writers, marketing people, researchers - anyone who treats AI like another person on the team rather than just some fancy calculator. We&#x27;d love your brutally honest feedback. Hit us up on Twitter or shoot an email to contact@knowbase.one. And hey, if you&#x27;re willing to really kick the tires and tell us what sucks, we&#x27;ll hook you up with free credits.

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