Writely started as my attempt to build a simple Google Docs clone.
But while working on it, I realised that copying more and more features would only create another crowded writing tool. So I changed the direction and focused on one idea: helping people write with fewer distractions.
Writely is now a calm writing workspace with autosave, browser recovery, formatting tools, document export, and optional AI assistance.
The main difference is that the AI only processes text the user deliberately selects, together with their instruction. The rest of the document is not included in that request.
I would appreciate honest feedback on:
source & further reading
dev.to — original article
Inside the Virtual R&D Lab: How Human Imagination and AI Multi-Agents Shape the Future of Science
I Built an AI Assistant That Turns Natural-Language Ideas Into Stock Searches
One key, multiple models: picking a unified text-to-image generation API