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It is designed to build consistent writing habit among writers. Writers can set a word count goal, write on their favorite sites, track their progress automatic

It is designed to build consistent writing habit among writers. Writers can set a word count goal, write on their favorite sites, track their progress automatically, and stay in the streak with the in-built goal calendar. What do you think about the product-market-fit of the app? leave some feedback. I'd appreciate both positive and negative.

monetus 5y ago
Any thoughts on having a synchronized desktop app/plugin? Tracking when offline would be cool too. I think there is definitely a market, as my author friends set goals exactly like this. They often use financial commitment as extra motivation to stick to them. As someone who knows how browser extensions quietly change hands, some reassurances or an open source/core would be nice. The ability to track on any site is a huge plus. I haven't tested it yet, so this just from my initial impression - will check it out after I sleep. One extra thought, it might be a good app to include emotional management. For instance, language learning apps always encourage you, and minimize self doubt or negativity. Pleasant sounds, clever compliments, maybe even quotes from authors and poets. Just a thought.
- NithurM 5y ago
  That's a neat feedback. Thank you. Offline mode is available in my app. For the market, I also see a lot of people want to commit to writing, but I don't have proper channels to market it to the writers. I thought about author's quotes thing but I have a feeling that it might complicate the app. Also I didn't understand this:"extensions quietly change hands, some reassurances or an open source/core would be nice" Can you please briefly explain it?
  - monetus 5y ago
    So, apparently when chrome extensions have many users, shady companies often offer to buy said extension before secretly adding various types of malware; e.g. turning the install base into a bot-net that mines crypto or something of that sort. I don't know if there is an easy way to guarantee that the code posted on a site like github is guaranteed to be the code used to build an extension... maybe some sort of hash comparison. Regardless, open source or at least verbage to assure users that they won't unwittingly be taken advantage of and that, basically, you're a kind person would be nice. The bit you said about privacy at the end of the description is what I'm talking about - it doesn't make me any extra paranoid and reassures people, even if the only way for me to be certain would be to do something unwieldy to normal users like monitoring network traffic or reverse engineering your extension from binary.
    - NithurM 5y ago
      Thank you for the help and words.

monetus 5y ago

Any thoughts on having a synchronized desktop app/plugin? Tracking when offline would be cool too. I think there is definitely a market, as my author friends set goals exactly like this. They often use financial commitment as extra motivation to stick to them. As someone who knows how browser extensions quietly change hands, some reassurances or an open source/core would be nice. The ability to track on any site is a huge plus. I haven't tested it yet, so this just from my initial impression - will check it out after I sleep. One extra thought, it might be a good app to include emotional management. For instance, language learning apps always encourage you, and minimize self doubt or negativity. Pleasant sounds, clever compliments, maybe even quotes from authors and poets. Just a thought.

NithurM 5y ago
That's a neat feedback. Thank you. Offline mode is available in my app. For the market, I also see a lot of people want to commit to writing, but I don't have proper channels to market it to the writers. I thought about author's quotes thing but I have a feeling that it might complicate the app. Also I didn't understand this:"extensions quietly change hands, some reassurances or an open source/core would be nice" Can you please briefly explain it?
- monetus 5y ago
  So, apparently when chrome extensions have many users, shady companies often offer to buy said extension before secretly adding various types of malware; e.g. turning the install base into a bot-net that mines crypto or something of that sort. I don't know if there is an easy way to guarantee that the code posted on a site like github is guaranteed to be the code used to build an extension... maybe some sort of hash comparison. Regardless, open source or at least verbage to assure users that they won't unwittingly be taken advantage of and that, basically, you're a kind person would be nice. The bit you said about privacy at the end of the description is what I'm talking about - it doesn't make me any extra paranoid and reassures people, even if the only way for me to be certain would be to do something unwieldy to normal users like monitoring network traffic or reverse engineering your extension from binary.
  - NithurM 5y ago
    Thank you for the help and words.