Quillcap automatically syncs your writing activity from your Google Docs file and shows your progress on a calendar (just like Github's commit calendar!)
Hey, this is Abishek! I'm a solo immigrant founder from Sri Lanka, living in the US.
This is my very first SaaS project, all thanks to my girlfriend who is a hobbyist writer. After seeing my commit calendar on Github, she wished she had something similar, but for her hobby writing that she's writing with Google Docs.
So I built Quillcap in a month. Using it has improved her writing so much, and made her form a daily hobby habit that she can't let go, and I figured there's other writers who want the same thing.
So I'm releasing it everyone. For free.
I love making stuff that helps people, and that is my life's purpose.
@abishek_gomes
Hey Abishek! ๐ Quillcap is such a thoughtful tool, and kudos for building it for your girlfriend! ๐ ๐ How does it specifically help with forming daily writing habits? Does it provide reminders or insights on progress?
@aashish_peepra I plan to incorporate streaks and notifications, but the main utility is starting to write every few days and looking back makes it harder to not do the next day, pretty much because you have an unbroken streak.
Very cool tool! I really like the idea of tracking writing progress with Github to build consistency.
Writing can inherently be a pretty lonely activity, so anything to make it more social and shareable is a big improvement. I'd love to see Quillcap expand to more writing tools! โ๏ธ
This looks pretty nice for the writers of the future!
Probably could be a good idea in the near future to add AI suggestions for the book, but for now good luck in the launch!
I am really impressed with how well this idea has been executed, especially considering it is such a common concept. What's even more commendable is that it caters to a niche that is unlikely to receive much attention or assistance. I am absolutely thrilled by it.
@abishek_gomes i'm thinking Notion would be a good one. I think there are lots of writers using it as their ops base. But it couldn't just read 1 page. They create like Books databases that then have relations to the Chapters database.
That would increse the complexity on your end. But food for thought ๐
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