Help us prioritize what to build next — and see what we've shipped recently.
Obsidian plugin
Format a selection or entire note through the FormattedChinese /v1 API.
Needs an API key from your account.
Install from Obsidian: Settings → Community plugins → Browse, search Formatted Chinese. Or open the directory listing.
Telegram bot
Format text, photos, and files in a private chat. Jobs use your account’s trial/premium quota after you link Telegram on Account.
Link: Log in → Account → Generate link code → send
/start YOURCODE to the bot (or open the deep link from Account).
Bot: @FormattedChineseBot · then link from Account
Recently shipped
Major product progress since the last roadmap refresh.
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Telegram bot (account-linked)
/account → Generate link code → /start CODE in Telegram; jobs use trial/premium quota
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Obsidian plugin (community directory)
Obsidian → Settings → Community plugins → Browse → "Formatted Chinese"; API key from /account
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Account signup, trial API keys, revoke
/signup, /login, /account — trial quotas; premium invite unlock
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Public /v1 API
Bearer API keys from /account; integrator docs on the site
What should we build next?
Drag to rank from highest to lowest priority. Public API, accounts, Obsidian, and Telegram are shipped — vote on what comes next.
Community rankings
| Feature | Score | Avg rank | Votes |
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| Public API Python package | — | 0 | |
| Paid subscription (self-serve) | — | 0 |
Shipped from your ideas
Features built from suggestions submitted in the poll above.
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Telegram bot
“Integrate it into message apps like Telegram”
/account → link Telegram; bot uses your account quota (/help, /settings, files, /redo)
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Yale romanization with tone numbers
“Add romanization - Yale with tone numbers”
Romanization dropdown → Yale (tone numbers)
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Hyphenate syllables within words
“An option to format the romanized words by joining them together with some kind of punctuation mark (e.g. a hyphen)”
Show compounds checkbox on the main page
Recent updates
- 8e13192 Give Traditional input the same pinyin as Simplified. 2026-08-26 00:45 UTC
- 8ba3124 Soften the accuracy answer, and split Sidney Lau from the MTR romanization. 2026-08-26 00:35 UTC
- 67db616 Record the Traditional pinyin bug and the guide page status. 2026-08-25 18:09 UTC
- c6efba7 Add the guide pages: registry, template, routes, sitemap. 2026-08-25 18:09 UTC
- 0f9217e Use context-aware Jyutping by default. 2026-08-25 18:02 UTC
- c55e5a8 Close out the verse bug and the footer credit in the plan. 2026-08-25 17:42 UTC
- f17b54c Make the export footer credit removable, for free. 2026-08-25 17:42 UTC
- defcab7 Stop line_by_line translating a couplet twice. 2026-08-25 17:36 UTC
- 1b21f3a Assess verse as a segment, and record the line_by_line bleed it exposes. 2026-08-25 17:23 UTC
- a233cd7 Correct the event-romanization read: it is a free-tier segment. 2026-08-25 17:16 UTC
- 7a643c6 Broaden the r/Cantonese opening, and record the event-romanization lead. 2026-08-25 16:50 UTC
- a12bfae Write the r/Cantonese comment from Matteo's own facts. 2026-08-25 16:38 UTC
- a48fda5 Draft the r/Cantonese approach against the subreddit's actual rules. 2026-08-25 16:28 UTC
- 9f903bd Merge the demo clip into the hero artifact. 2026-08-25 16:12 UTC
- 70b733d Add the demo clip to the landing page. 2026-08-25 16:03 UTC
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