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Text Blaze
Company blog · blaze.today/blogproductivityprogramming
Text Blaze is the company blog at blaze.today, writing about productivity and programming. Since 2020, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Text Blaze saves you hours of work by eliminating repetitive work with customizable snippets and dynamic templates that work on any app or website.
What Hacker News says?
My company is trying to solve similar challenges for automating common typing tasks on web pages (email, chat, CRM, etc...) with our Chrome Extension Text Blaze [1]. It was a pretty extensive formula support [2] enabling you to create dynamic snippets. In many ways it's kind of like Excel but for documents. [1] https://blaze.today/ [2] https://blaze.today/formulas/reference/
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on “In Praise of AutoHotKey”Submitted How to Build a Serverless Bundle Size Monitor for Free as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThis is a great point and also very applicable to sales generally. There's definitely a continuum between "hyper target / completely customized" and "spray and pray" and each person/company needs to find the right point on that continuum for themselves. My company actually just put out a blog post last week on this showing how to quickly create customized emails while still leveraging templates [0]. [0] https://blaz…
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on “A cold outreach strategy that works”Submitted How we recruit effectively at Text Blaze as a story · 1 points
HN discussionLet us know what you think! Our blog has quite a few templates: https://blaze.today/blog/ We also have extensive documentation to help you get started ( https://blaze.today/docs/ ) and a lively community ( https://community.blaze.today/ )
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on “Launch HN: Text Blaze (YC W21) Programmable snippets to automate tedious typing”My company has an Airtable competitor that has API support for SQL. It has pretty good SQL capabilities solving the issues with pagination you have in Airtable. An overview of the supported SQL syntax is here: https://blaze.today/datablaze/docs/bsql/ No joins yet between tables yet, but they are planned. (You can use lookup fields to achieve them to some extent, but that requires planning ahead and is limited).
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on “Show HN: I built developer tooling for the Airtable API that I needed”There are quite a few competing tools: - https://blaze.today/blog/ai-job-application-tools/ I'm sure there are many more.
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on “Ask HN: Have you used AI to apply for jobs? How did it go?”We built Text Blaze [0] a Chrome Extension [1] that supports a lot of similar capabilities. It lets you do text expansions on any website using hotkeys, include dynamic values like the date a week from today in your snippets, build form UI's [2], and include dynamic logic using formulas and if-statements [3] (it uses a dynamic reactivity model for formula's similar to spreadsheets). One thing we are really excited a…
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on “Learn AutoHotKey by stealing my scripts”Text Blaze (YC W21) has saved me about 50 hours over the past 18 months. They reduce repetitive typing across websites. For example if you have a common format for bugs you're filing, or LinkedIn messages or emails that you're sending, you can use Text Blaze to write most of the text for you. If you've used Superhuman snippets, this is similar but more powerful, and it works across the entire web instead of just ema…
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on “Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)”