Skrivhjälp

Skrivhjälp reached end of life on October 3, 2026. It was our first project, and building it taught us a lot. But it attracted very little traffic and arrived a few years too late. Continued maintenance no longer made sense, so we retired the service.

This page preserves the project story, screenshots, and build notes as a record of what we built and learned.

Why we built Skrivhjälp

Writing a formal Swedish letter — a job application cover letter, a complaint to a landlord, a serious email to a government office — is high-stakes, low-frequency work. Most people only do it a few times a year, and the cost of getting the tone wrong is real. The available tooling either presents a blank page (a regular email client) or requires the user to learn how to prompt an AI assistant. Neither helps the audience who needs the help most.

Skrivhjälp targeted the user who would never open an AI assistant themselves. Pick the situation from a guided list, fill in a few fields, see the finished text in a preview, and pay once for the result. No account, no subscription, no AI prompting. The Swedish output is done by an LLM under the hood, but the user never has to think about that — they're paying for help writing the letter, not for time on a model.