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A considered Hacker News comment is a small essay written in a plain textarea. Typally puts your words into Hacker News the moment you release the key, in whichever field you left the cursor.
Yes, we build Typally. That is also why the section on Hacker News's built-in option is honest: people who switch after trying both are the ones who stay.None. The comment box is a bare textarea.
The comments that get read are substantive and specific. The interface offers nothing — no formatting, no draft saving — so a long comment is typed into a box that will lose it if the page reloads.
In practice people use it for: Comments with real detail, Show HN descriptions, Ask HN posts, and replies in a long thread.
There is no Hacker News extension or add-in involved — Typally behaves like a very fast keyboard:
Windows or macOS build, signed in once.
Click first. Typally types into Hacker News wherever the caret already is, with no idea what that field is for.
Say the whole thought, then let go. No time limit.
The comment box has no autosave and minimal formatting. Compose elsewhere and paste.
Typally types into whatever scratch editor you draft in and into the textarea itself. For a site with no draft saving and no formatting help, being able to produce the comment quickly somewhere safe is most of the battle.
Someone with direct experience of a topic speaks a four-paragraph comment into a scratch file, edits it, and pastes it in. It becomes the top comment, which two typed lines never would have.
Draft anything long outside the site. The textarea has no draft saving, and losing a considered comment to a refresh is a rite of passage worth skipping.
The comment box has no autosave and minimal formatting. Compose elsewhere and paste.
Almost none. It is a plain textarea by design.
For anything long, yes. There is no draft recovery.
Yes, and describing your project out loud usually produces a clearer pitch than writing it.
The free plan gives you 100 minutes a month without a card — enough to find out whether talking beats typing for you.
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