Kraa
Writing App for Everything
Details
- External ID
- 46144801
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Kraa
- Website domain
- kraa.io
- Launched
- Dec. 4, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 127
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9150763358778626
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hello HN! We're a team of three building a new kind of web-based markdown editor.There are many editors out there, so one is spoiled for choice, but Kraa's approach is a little different. It's trying to be both a minimal and distraction-free experience while being feature-rich and allowing for tons of use cases.What Kraa's good for:- Distraction-free writing & reading (minimal UI, performant, styling logic completely separated from the editing experience)- Quick sharing of any written text – compared to many other writing tools, your content can be easily shared just by posting a link and giving 'read' or 'edit' access (we also have password-protection)- Real-time chat / communities – Kraa has some unique features around real-time editing and our Chat widget allows for a frictionless chat experience. No send button.- Kraa works well on mobile (though dedicated apps are planned)---Demo examples (all live, no login needed):Blog article: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/echolibraryLong-form story: https://kraa.io/kraa/examples/insidekickMagazine: https://kraa.io/weeklyinspirationKraa is built on top of ProseMirror (and TipTap) and Svelte.You don’t need an account to try Kraa. We’d really appreciate your thoughts and feedback!
Enrichment
- Theme
- markdown editors and writing tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- writing app for all use cases
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Kraa is a minimalist web-based Markdown editor built with standard web frameworks, local storage, and standard WebSocket/CRDT collaborative sync libraries.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Evernote, Notion, ProseMirror, Securinote
Concerns raised: No visible pricing page or business model transparency, Slow loading performance, Requires account creation to discover pricing, UI bugs (timestamp overlap on Safari, duplicate sample links), Uncertain if bait-and-switch pricing model
Feature requests: Voice recording with speech-to-text conversion, Sketching/drawing capability on mobile, Conflict resolution and syncing at scale with multiple cursors and permissions, Export to plaintext format
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 49 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 50 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 29 days after the earliest competitor.
- Real-Real-Time Chat · hn · 2026-04-23 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Writemark, a dependency free web component for inline Markdown editing · hn · 2026-07-25 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Reproof · hn · 2026-08-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- GitWriter · hn · 2026-02-09 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Building a Markdown editor for Mac, iOS and web · hn · 2026-09-27 · 69 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Allein · hn · 2025-11-19 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- A Markdown editor without the bloat · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Tomoshibi · hn · 2026-02-28 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.37
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a content generation tool for Government yet.