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Professional screenplay writing, right in your browser.

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I built a zero-browser, pure-JS typesetting engine for bit-perfect PDFs▲78
Hi HN, I'm a film director by trade, and I prefer writing my stories in plain text rather than using clunky screenplay software. Standard markup like Fountain doesn't work for me because I write in mixed languages, so I use Markdown with a custom syntax I invented to resemble standard screenplay structures. This workflow is great until I need to actually generate an industry-standard screenplay PDF. I got tired of manually copying and pasting my text back into the clunky software just to export it, so I decided to write a script to automate the process. That's when I hit a wall. I tried…
Mar 2026 · github.com
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Rescript▲144
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ButterDocs▲574
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Craft Docs▲451
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Expresso▲420
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Hemingway Editor 3.0▲423
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Pdf.js Express – PDF annotation, e-signatures, and form filling▲334
Hi HN, Nick here. We're super excited to officially launch PDF.js Express [1]. PDF.js Express wraps a modern React UI around the PDF.js rendering engine to enable PDF annotation, form filling, and signing inside your web app. We've also made some improvements to PDF.js text search, and taken a different approach to how the viewer uses the PDF.js rendering API, resulting in sharp graphics at any zoom magnification [2]. Based on our research, more than 70% of those who try to implement these features on top of PDF.js find it too difficult or time-intensive [3]. For those who are successful,…
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Scripted 2.0▲118
Content marketing powered by freelance writers.
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Dialogue▲219
Write a movie the same way you text.
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Writty▲306
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TurboScripter▲131
Your shortcut to effortless content creation at warp speed
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I have built a library of screenplays for movies and TV shows▲266
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Script – A text editor for digitally interconnected documents▲98
script is a text editor powering truly digital documents recently launched. Feel free to play with and share your feedback.
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TypMo▲154
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OmniaWrite▲89
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Typerino▲111
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Prewrite▲88
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PyWebIO – Write interactive web app in script way▲200
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Libretto – Making AI browser automations deterministic▲134
Libretto (https://libretto.sh) is a Skill+CLI that makes it easy for your coding agent to generate deterministic browser automations and debug existing ones. Key shift is going from “give an agent a prompt at runtime and hope it figures things out” to: “Use coding agents to generate real scripts you can inspect, run, and debug”. Here’s a demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cDpIntmHAM. Docs start at https://libretto.sh/docs/get-started/introduction. We spent a year building and maintaining browser automations for EHR and payer portal…
Apr 2026 · github.com
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Kodemo▲152
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Rescript for Desktop▲88
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Liner Write▲173
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DeploySentinel Recorder▲95
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