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64•gumby•13h ago•24 comments
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Show HN: 1667, a terminal UI for writing fiction with language models

https://1667.ai/
29•refsab•55m ago
Hi HN. I built 1667 for my own fiction work and now use it each day. This probably has a limited audience. Maybe an audience of one...

Why a terminal interface for story writing? I'm a dev. I like to use terminals for a lot of stuff. Most WebUIs feel off to me. That's the only reason.

One thing that bothers me about writing in existing tools is that they don't fit the way I write. The mental model of my story is a tree. I try many takes usually continue with just one, but sometimes I want to try an alternate route and see where this goes. And that can branch again in many places. See what happens if I kill off this character or they don't take the job or whatever.

1667 is a full-screen terminal app for long-form fiction. Each story part can have several takes. All takes stay in a tree. You select one path through that tree as the story line. Export writes that line to Markdown in the project folder.

Some technical details: - A project stores its stories and settings in a `.1667/` directory. Exported Markdown sits beside it. - Provider secrets stay in private machine files. Requests go to the provider that the writer selects. - An optional Vault Password seals project files at rest. - An operating-system lock permits one writer process for each project. - The request viewer shows the next provider request without its credential. - Each generated take keeps a Generation Record with its model and effective settings.

Version 0.9.5 runs on macOS, Linux, and Windows x64. The website has Shell and PowerShell installers. An npm package is also available.

1667 imports Markdown, SillyTavern chats and cards, and NovelAI archives. It can use OpenAI-compatible, Anthropic, and local endpoints such as Ollama, LM Studio, llama.cpp, and KoboldCpp.

Current limits: the release is pre-1.0. The interface is a terminal. There is no account or cloud sync, and I don't plan to add any. No tracking.

Comments

BrucecarlL•51m ago
The UI looks beautiful,I like its style.
Z4cki•44m ago
Love the style! very creative
bubblegumcrisis•42m ago
This is so depressing for me. The drip will be everywhere.
sesteel•39m ago
I think I am going to move into a rural area and be a glassblower. I'll never be Chihuly, but my work will be my work.
refsab•38m ago
This is not a slop book producer. I mean it is but mostly for a niche of off grid weirdos like me. We are not writing for the public. It's like fanfic. On off grid forums and discords.

I think if someone wanted to produce a slop book for amazon with 1667 there are easier tools for that.

bubblegumcrisis•26m ago
Here's a question. Tangential I know. "Digression!"

If you had a kid, let's say 6 years old, and they had a "super hero" they wrote stories about.

What would it mean, if you took away their creative process and replaced it with this.

Does that child have a lesser "life-experience?" Or not?

What about you?

refsab•19m ago
But I'm not taking it away. I'm adding to it. I'm also writing my own stories. My post marketed it the wrong way I think. I'm suddenly getting a lot of hate mail in my inbox.

What it really is is a kind of choose your own adventure. You can be 6 years old and write stories and then an hour later play a choose-your-own-adventure game and no one would find that weird

DC-3•39m ago
Why would you want to write fiction with language models? Serious question.

What you would become, in effect, is the fictional Soviet 'writer' from Sam Kriss' 2011 short story 'The Machine'.

https://samkriss.com/2011/10/01/the-machine/

I do not think there is anything to aspire to in that.

refsab•36m ago
It's a form of low tech holodeck. You write the stories you want to read. I love these vintage pulp detective novels but no one writes them anymore so I write them myself for myself, and a few of my fellow weirdos on weird discords.
DC-3•30m ago
I suppose I am sympathetic to the feeling of having weird tastes uncatered to by the market. But in that instance, why not actually try and write such stories yourself? And as a reader, what is the appeal of reading stories regurgitated by a stochastic algorithm when the possibility is there instead of connecting to another human soul?
refsab•25m ago
Oh I do. They are just utter garbage but that's beside the point.

This caters to a different lets say need.

Like I said in another post it's more like low tech holodeck or maybe create your own adventure. Where the story evolves based on simple directives

DC-3•16m ago
> They are just utter garbage

As someone once said, "Fail again. Fail better."

And, anyway, so what if they are bad? They are authentically the product of a single human soul rather than some grey-gruel average of millions. There is an awful lot of value in that.

j4cobgarby•38m ago
I assume the several comments complementing the style of this app are being sarcastic, because.. come on..
refsab•35m ago
My god. I'm getting anxiety. I shouldn't have posted this
pbowyer•31m ago
I like seeing what people create, and you've created something with some interesting features, particularly around the path map and keeping all drafts. I'm forever duplicating a paragraph and rewording it 6 or 7 times, then deleting the rest - and the next day think "no try #2 was better than the one I kept".

Ignore the haters, they're a HN rite of passage. Good luck with your writing!

refsab•10m ago
Thank you. Really appreciate it. Makes me feel better.

Yeah I spent a lot of time thinking about this problem. Wanted to make it easy to navigate multiple takes and multiple branches.

It's a difficult UX problem. I feel like the path view of the map works reasonably well but tree/mass not so much. Needs more thinking

sunir•6m ago
I'm sorry you're getting the lash end of the whip. The rage against the (literal) machine is very high right now. I appreciate you sharing your creativity, and frankly, I am taking notes on what you've built for a related but different project.

Don't forget Hacker News is known for amazing commentary like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

greenie_beans•36m ago
i just use track changes for that + a "trash" doc, or an entirely new story if it needs more space, but go off.

i also made an app for my writing process and quickly realized it was a distraction from the actual work of writing

refsab•36m ago
Explain please?
refsab•33m ago
Saw your edit. Yeah I had that too. But I wanted something more ai driven because I'm not a trash writer. I want that lowtech holodeck feel where I tell the model to take the story and it writes a chapter for me. Plus wanted to keep branching trees of different versions
greenie_beans•30m ago
sorry i'm a writer who edits... this project is genuinely interesting and i'm curious to see where it goes. i would try to market it as ML instead of AI, given the current temperature of AI in publishing and writing circles. if somebody can improve upon track changes in a git-like, narrative-tree way, then that might be super useful tool!
refsab•27m ago
Yeah I noticed that my god. I regret even posting it. I'm suddenly getting a lot of weird mail I'm not used to hate like that.
colesantiago•7m ago
jtbayly•35m ago
Makes me curious. What context is sent? Whole story, including later chapters? Just up to that paragraph? Planning and character description documents? Any way to control all of that?
refsab•29m ago
Whole story up to the context limit. Then it starts dropping stuff. But I didn't want auto dropping or auto summaries like what other tools do.

I like to be strategic summarize the correct places when the context gets full.

There is a request inspector that shows everything that is sent.

I'm experimenting with prompt ordering strategies as well. this is surprisingly complext when you take into account the different model providers.

For example local models usually do a different form of prompt caching than for example openai and anthropic

crow9292•32m ago
Great UI
bennettpompi1•28m ago
This sucks. Sorry. If you can't write on your own, don't write at all. Extremely disappointed that anyone is giving this votes.
khalic•24m ago
There are some good use cases, personal fiction, etc. The issue is mostly people not disclaiming it’s AI. I can’t get mad at the tool builder. Neither can I assume the worse of every user.

That being said, I wouldn’t have published something like this because I do assume the worse.

But it’s morally wrong to assume every one lacks honesty…

Tough one

bennettpompi1•18m ago
I just fundamentally disagree with this. On one hand, sure, you can argue that there is no direct harm caused by using LLMs to generate fiction for personal consumption. But on the other hand, I feel like there is a deep spiritual deadening that arises when we no longer must engage with the works of others to find fiction that satisfies our tastes. You have niche interests? What you want to read doesn't exist in a meaningful quantity or even at all? Great! You should write it! But you should do so yourself rather than asking a computer to regress your great idea to the mean.
docheinestages•27m ago
Can we get a tool that does the opposite for the readers?
refsab•26m ago
What do you mean? Can you elaborate?
yesacs•21m ago
This is embarrassing. If you actually created this for your 'own fiction work' you've missing the entire point of writing fiction.
thegagne•18m ago
Hm, I want something like this, except it doesn't write for you at all, instead it helps you build out your storyline, gives you writing prompts and feedback, maybe sometimes suggests ideas if you feel stuck, helps keep your character/story bible in order and text aligned with it, and gives you encouragement and visual feedback as you go along.|

Maybe add in some different "AI reviewer" type things, one to read broadly for enjoyment and give feedback, another as an editor to fine-tune particular sections. Even with these it should provide feedback, not re-written sections.

But I love the TUI approach and keeping things simple and organized for you, so you don't have to bother with all that. Bonus if it had some nice LaTeX / epub / PDF / html reader output.

0gs•2m ago
what you are describing is exactly what i built (or tried/am trying to). it's called enough: github.com/0gsd/enough. it is difficult to evangelize because most LLM tools for writers generate prose. i suspect eventually an audience will come around to it, but who knows.
jerjerjer•12m ago
Is it SillyTavern but TUI or is the flow different? I know SillyTavern is more dialogue focused, but surely it can be configured for novel writing instead?

Not sure why you're getting so much hate. Internet is already chock-full of slop, a new TUI-based tool is not going to make it measurably worse.

refsab•2m ago
Yes. But SillyTavern didn't work for me.

I didn't like the character focused chat interaction. You can configure it for novel writing.

I just didn't like the way it treats alternate takes. It's not branching of alternates if you know what I mean.

dbspin•10m ago
So... You don't write with language models... You have a language model write for you... You can spend all the time you like developing structure and ideas, but if you don't actually do the writing you haven't written it.

This is spectacularly wrong headed. If you want a book with your name on it for adulation or career reasons, but lack the interest, time or talent to produce one - hire a ghost writers. Writers are affordable and plentiful.

Similarly if you have a hyperspecific interest, kink or genre preference - use your position as a presumably well remunerated tech person to hire a writer to cater to it. Trust me, we need the patronage.

If you're looking for the pleasure of writing, you will unfortunately have to undergo, as all writers have through history, the process of suffering and discovery that we call writing.

Stwerner•9m ago
This is really cool! I've started building a similar tool with some different ideas based around the way I like to ideate with LLMs and write. Debating whether to open source it because it's so tied to my process.

Will be interesting to see where you take this. I'd love to see more experimentation around AI tooling and UX to support creativity.

refsab•5m ago
This was also tied pretty much to my process. Just publish it. Would love to exchange ideas.

The only thing I would avoid is calling it an AI writing tool haha. I didn't realize this was such a sore topic. Probably naive of me

drbscl•7m ago
> context window: 32,768

Seems a bit low to me. Yeah, I know that's way bigger than a book, but surely there is conversation, iteration history, etc

refsab•4m ago
Context window depends on the model used. I used gemma4 I think and set it to 32k so startup is faster. I think even gemma supports up to 200k
bubblegumcrisis
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9m ago
The next generation is so f*cked. It's going to be far worse than I imagined before.

We are going to have kids who, instead of imagining their own fantasy lands, are given them by AI. Of course the AI will be far superior to a 6 year old- how will they be able to resist the AI drip, when even adults can't.

A generation growing up without imagining. So depressing.

I guess we have a few years before it starts. Or maybe it already has.

Wow.

I hope this doesn't happen. I hope the kids are smarter than us.

codeduck•33m ago
AI feels like a Faustian bargain that has been struck on my behalf by others who do not know me.

"Tools" like this make me feel nothing but a profound sense of sadness and despair.

api•9m ago
Not a new sentiment. This is over two thousand years old:

https://www.anthologialitt.com/post/the-god-thoth-and-the-in...

Every invention is a Faustian pact. It amplifies certain things and atrophies others.

Personally I think the approach I'll take with literature is the same as other things: I'll evaluate it in its merit and not try to guess on its origin. We're already awash in people accusing actual human writing of being "AI" while meanwhile AI writing slips under the radar. It's pointless. It is what it is when it arrives at my eyeballs.

If I wrote a book I would not use the AI to craft prose, not from AI-hate but because to me it kind of defeats the purpose. I would, however, use it as a first pass proofreader and editor, and maybe as a brainstorming "rubber duck that talks back." It's pretty good at those things.

-- From the link:

“This invention, O king,” said Theuth, “will make the Egyptians wiser and will improve their memories; for it is an elixir of memory and wisdom that I have discovered.”

But Thamus replied,

“Most ingenious Theuth, one man has the ability to beget arts, but the ability to judge of their usefulness or harmfulness to their users belongs to another; and now you, who are the father of letters, have been led by your affection to ascribe to them a power the opposite of that which they really possess.

For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them.

You have invented an elixir not of memory, but of reminding; and you offer your pupils the appearance of wisdom, not true wisdom, for they will read many things without instruction and will therefore seem to know many things, when they are for the most part ignorant and hard to get along with, since they are not wise, but only appear wise."

refsab•3m ago
Yeah not wrong. But as I said this is not a replacement tool for my writing but another hobby, akin to roleplaying maybe
jvanderbot•27m ago
My friend was absolutely obsessed with writing character backgrounds and world setting stories using ChatGPT for a while. It took almost a year for him to come up for air and realize all the stories were effectively the same, and the hooks/tricks/twists were all very generic.

it can be addictive to tell stories with friends or world-build, so why not a 'friend'?

refsab•18m ago
Yeah that's why I spend time on discords to share. You can very quickly fall into this llm psychosis adjacent place where you just go round and round
spott•27m ago
World building, story boarding/ story arc building, etc are great uses for an LLM in fiction.
yesacs•19m ago
Sure, if you don't actually want to do the work of, you know, making something
bubblegumcrisis•5m ago
Don't worry, the west coast comes online in a couple hours -- they will be positive.
What type of hate are you getting if you don't mind me asking?

I like your tool by the way, I don't understand what sort of person would have such visceral hate towards someone's creation.

They don't have to use it but it is nice for you to share your creation.

Don't be put off by them, they actually secretly use LLMs for own work and they are embarrassed of putting it out their to protect their own 'programmer' ego.

Keep going!

pbowyer•27m ago
I think we're both looking for the same improvements and I haven't found them in a writing tool yet: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331036
refsab•21m ago
Yeah many are trying to solve this. It's really not easy to get the UX right. Git changes can get deep and wide

I wanted to have a simple way to navigate my story in a tree form but cli is really not great in displaying those. Lazygit is the best imo but still not great. WebUIs are not really better

Looms seem to work a bit better, which is also what 1667 is based on. But still I don't know needs work

https://cyborgism.wiki/hypha/loom