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So I made my own site that focuses the input box. And because I wanted a thesaurus where I could type just the term in the address bar (eg type carefulwords.com\u002Fword) to get my results.\n\nIt is very rough around the edges right now. There are far too many synonyms, which themselves are only organized alphabetically. I hope to take the site in a more inspiring direction over time than merely synonyms. Perhaps euphemisms, or other poetic uses from the past, or author",{"problem":46,"audience":52,"pricing":52,"motivation":53,"time_to_build":52,"stack":57,"openness":58,"stage":59,"team_size":60},{"value":47,"source":48,"evidence":49},"Thesaurus sites with unfocused input boxes and clutter; wants a more inspiring thesaurus","maker",[50],{"id":51},"post",null,{"value":54,"source":48,"evidence":55},"Frustration with thesaurus.com's unfocused input box; wanted to type a term in the address bar",[56],{"id":51},[],"unknown","launched","solo",{"praise":62,"objections":94,"requests":133,"questions":166,"alternatives":180},[63,83],{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"Clean design and poetry\u002Fliterary quotes add inspiration","commenter",[67,71,75,79],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},"33227903","noodlesUK","This is gorgeous. I was just discussing the need for a better thesaurus with my partner! I love the quotes. One suggestion — could you make the result words clickable? So as to…",{"id":72,"by":73,"text":74},"33229377","motohagiography","This is beautiful and even revolutionary. The references from poetry and other great works that provide context for why those words mean what they do to us are a stroke of genius.",{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"33230037","rex_lupi","I love it, especially the poetry quotations! I have wanted something like this for a long time. Thank you.",{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},"33228033","2devnull","This is excellent. It would be even more fun if clicking on one of the synonyms opened a page for that synonym. I really like the quotes and the esteem for the classical, and myth.",{"value":84,"source":65,"evidence":85},"Better than alternatives like Power Thesaurus for some",[86,90],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"33227848","yawnxyz","this is really nice!! I'll be using this instead of Powerthesaurus, for sure. Could you turn the suggested words into hyperlinks, please?",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"33227649","tfsh","This is really nice! I generally use powerthesarus.org when I'm in need of synonyms, however the slimmed-down design of this and quotes are a charming touch. The dataset also…",[95,114,118],{"value":96,"source":65,"evidence":97},"Many results are not true synonyms; related words mixed in",[98,102,106,110],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"33232181","ivanche","I must be missing something here. https:\u002F\u002Fcarefulwords.com\u002Ffast gives back 349 results, starting with \"Barmecidal feast, Encratism, Friday, Lenten diet, Lenten entertainment,…",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"33230682","yreg","Power Thesaurus gives much better results imho. Careful Words includes a lot of results that are not synonyms at all, and just relate to the query in some way. So depends on what…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"33230307","IAmPym","Some odd associations here... whimsy gives back, among other things: maggot I have never seen a whimsical maggot, nor do I think I want to",{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},"33230919","nathias","These aren't really synonyms right? What are they? How are you getting the data? (I'm basing this on solitutde - alienation example).",{"value":115,"source":65,"evidence":116},"Results sorted alphabetically rather than ranked",[117],{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"value":119,"source":65,"evidence":120},"Unknown words give a 404 page rather than a helpful message",[121,125,129],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"33234234","crtasm","just noting that you can put the term in the URL on there: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesaurus.com\u002Fbrowse\u002Fhacker I like your site but the word list would be much easier for me to skim through…",{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"33228116","vector_spaces","This is silly but typing \"poop\" in the search bar and hitting enter gives a \"Page not found\" -- maybe the search auto complete drop-down can let you know that a word isn't in the…",{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"33234252","pbronez","I get a Netlify 404 error when searching for words that aren't in the list. For example \"innovate\" [0] is a miss but \"innovation\" [1] is valid. You could make the look up more…",[134,140,155,162],{"value":135,"source":65,"evidence":136},"Make result words clickable links",[137,138,139],{"id":68,"by":69,"text":70},{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},{"id":80,"by":81,"text":82},{"value":141,"source":65,"evidence":142},"Preserve double-click copy alongside links",[143,147,151],{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"33228043","deopot","Maybe you could put an icon next to the word that copies it to the clipboard when clicked. Some websites use an image of a piece of paper with a top corner folded over to…",{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"33229825","divbzero","I would second vtimofeenko’s suggestion to use an icon with a link to preserve double-click-to-copy.",{"id":152,"by":153,"text":154},"33232001","gnfargbl","For a site like this, which has a very clear single function and which people are likely to visit again and again, it might be justifiable to have a small control somewhere on…",{"value":156,"source":65,"evidence":157},"Provide an API or export of the thesaurus",[158],{"id":159,"by":160,"text":161},"33227933","mcculley","This is great! I have been working on something related, a tool to watch over my own writing and suggest better words: https:\u002F\u002Fgithub.com\u002Fmcculley\u002FWordWhittler Would you consider…",{"value":163,"source":65,"evidence":164},"Stemming redirects for word variants",[165],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},[167,176],{"value":168,"source":65,"evidence":169},"Where does the thesaurus data come from?",[170,174,175],{"id":171,"by":172,"text":173},"33227496","antognini","This is very cool! I'm reminded a little bit of definr.com, which was a basic super-fast online dictionary but sadly disappeared a few years ago. Where did you get the thesaurus…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},{"id":111,"by":112,"text":113},{"value":177,"source":65,"evidence":178},"How much is hand curated?",[179],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},[181,186,190,197],{"value":182,"source":65,"evidence":183},"Power Thesaurus",[184,185],{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},{"value":187,"source":65,"evidence":188},"thesaurus.com",[189],{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},{"value":191,"source":65,"evidence":192},"freethesaurus.com",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"33232707","Timwi","How many other thesaurus websites have you examined? It sounds like you assumed thesaurus.com was the only one in existence. (Personally I use freethesaurus.com, and if I need…",{"value":198,"source":65,"evidence":199},"onelook.com",[200],{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"33233741","jasonshen","Love this! The addition of phrases (I searched \"invent\" and got \"break ground\" \"bring forth\" and \"hit upon\") is what my other favorite word explorer (onelook.com) is missing.…",{"comments":41,"answered":43,"key":205},[206,209,212],{"id":207,"text":208},"33227996","I will. I said to another person, I hesitated because I personally like to double click the word text to copy it, and that gets in the way, but enough people have asked for it.",{"id":210,"text":211},"33227935","I'm using the Moby Thesaurus, a public-domain thesaurus of about 30,000 terms, slightly edited by me so far. I am not crazy about this source, but it was an easier way to start.…",{"id":213,"text":214},"33228132","Oh that's a good idea. 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