SPDCA:

I have a new project. It's called Giterary. It's nearing completion. I've been coding for about the last 6 months on it. I need to hear your thoughts on it.

It is a novel writing tool that makes use of the cool programming tools I use to keep track of my programming projects, both personally and professionally. It puts them in a wiki web application that helps to get the content for your novel into a good place, and tries to help along the way.

It has piqued my interest for this long partly because I want to write a book someday, and partly because the tools that exist right now suck due to the following:

• They fail to let one maintain a reasonable workflow for working on a novel between 1 or more people (including editors).
• They suck at tracking file changes in a sane, distributed manner (that doesn't involve emailing Word documents back and forth).
• They tend to not let you maintain and organize background information (in a way that's as easy as Wikipedia)
• They force you to use their interfaces, and often, their file formatting, limiting you to how well you can use their tool, not how well you can use your favorite tools.
• You usually have to pay for them.

The main site is here: http://giterary.com (giterary.com)

The demo/example site is here: http://giterary.com/playground (giterary.com)

I have about 17K words worth of documentation between the user manual, install guide, and other assorted documents, so I won't go into too much more detail here.

What I will ask, though, is for your time, if you happen to have it. Very few people have viewed the application, but the few times that I have demoed it the feedback was pretty valuable (if soul-crushing at times). I'm getting ready to release Giterary "into the wild," so to speak, and fairly soon, publishing it as a free open source application that anybody can download (because honestly nobody would pay for it).

The thing is, I've been staring at the thing for too long, so everything is old and tried and familiar to me. I don't know what new users see anymore.

What I would ask is that you log in to the "Playground" and roam around. Create things, change things, move things, delete things, whatever you like. You cannot break anything, and the entire Playground resets itself at the top of every hour. I would also ask that you look over the documentation to see if it can answer any questions you have (and let me know if it does not).

I'm exposing this to idkfa so that I hear it from people I know and respect, and not the assholes on the Internet. Any pain you can save me at the mercy of the uncaring trolls would be a kindness.

Thanks for your time.