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24 alternatives to Dico
Hardcoded strings into editable content
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dico launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Sync the latest copy edits from design to development
2021 · its alternatives →
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Dynamic strings in designs, {{auto-formatted}} for devs
2021 · its alternatives →
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Hi HN community, Over the last six months, we’ve been building FlyCode, a product editing DevTool. We make it easy for team members to edit product copy in web and native apps’ code through FlyCode’s dashboard with auto-generated PRs instead of using a code editor. From the beginning, we built around the belief that codebase ownership should stay with developers and that tools should flexibly coexist with a codebase rather than dictate infra changes. The key shift for us was to identify ways to include non-technical teams as individual contributors in the development process. At FlyCode,…
2022 · flycode.com · its alternatives →
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Edit your product visually directly from your browser
2023 · its alternatives →
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We're building version control software for Microsoft Office documents that works as well as Git and GitHub do for code. Today, we’re releasing the first component, Draftable for Word, an Office add-in that lets you generate side-by-side diffs, and makes it way less painful to work with Track Changes. Our diffs are designed to look right to humans — instead of machines — showing changes as they might actually have been made by an editor. We'd love to hear your feedback. We’d also love to fix what you find painful about authoring and collaborating on Microsoft Office documents, so get in…
2013 · its alternatives →
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Perform many string operations to clipboard content
2020 · its alternatives →
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Hi When you are learning a new language, you need to practice different skills: reading, listening, speaking, writing. I find writing to be the hardest activity, not least because I have to look up words in the dictionary all the time, and that is a frustrating context switch. Here is an experimental CodeMirror-based editor, that lets you look up translations inline. Type @ followed by the English word, and get a list of possible translations, and select the translation to apply it. Online demo: https://foreign-dispatch-autocomplete.netlify.app/
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Write papers like MS Word and generate LaTeX for typesetting
2022 · its alternatives →
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Webserver application for building and publishing dictionary websites
2022 · dict.press · its alternatives →
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Build Expertise on Structured Content Development
2025 · scientyficworld.org · its alternatives →
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