Show HN: Brevity 500 – Short games to help you become a powerful writer
0. Congrats on shipping.<p>1. This is really cool.  Also scary.  I think I might be the target market for this, I&#x27;ve long known that communication is my greatest professional weakness at this point, and within that, brevity is something I gotta learn.<p>2. I did one of the games (CVS, pharmacy, chemistry) and it was terrifying!  By which I mean &quot;I think I might be exactly the sort of person who needs to be FORCED to do this, and I did so, and it was DIFFICULT AND UNCOMFORTABLE&quot;, which means your thing works. :D<p>3. I had to copy the original text to a side buffer so I could refer to it while I was writing.  It would have been better if I could see it, and the required words, on one part of the screen (left?  top?) while I entered my new text somewhere else.<p>4. The timer didn&#x27;t seem to work for me (firefox, linux), but that&#x27;s fine, there&#x27;s no way I could have gotten it done in time, and seeing the numbers decrease would have made it even harder. ^_^;;<p>5. I understand that &quot;grading&quot; in any sense is hard (you need a human), so I appreciate offering the example &quot;correct&quot; response, but you know what would have been even better?  several &quot;valid&quot; rewrites, and perhaps a few that aren&#x27;t!  What I mean to say is, as an admittedly poor writer, seeing both an example of what to do and what not to do could be of use.<p>6. I wish there were a way to spend 1&#x2F;20th as much for 1&#x2F;50th of the paid product first, before committing to buy the whole thing.  There&#x27;s a large psychological difference between $5 and $100 and I&#x27;d pay $5 right now to test out the paid version 10 times, even though I&#x27;ll probably pay $100 for it, later.  I might not though!  I might forget!  But that made my brain hurt so hard I&#x27;d drop $5 without a thought.<p>7. A difficulty level for each game would be FANTASTIC!  Can you do that?  Perhaps just 3 levels.  That way people like me who are looking to take their writing ability from &quot;completely horrible&quot; to &quot;acceptable&quot; can have an easier time.