Fresh Ink

Maker

Hello Product Hunters! 👋 I’m super excited to share what we've been working on, and thrilled to bring a new way for authors to test and iterate on their work! We’ve received over 4,000 stories and novels so far, and we’re now ready to open the doors to readers. How It Works • Our app matches you with 20 stories to start, you can swipe to save or skip a story. • We use your swipes, opens, drop-offs, ratings, comments and feedback to help decide both your next matches, and who else should be reading the stories you’ve read. • Authors get a detailed report on their work, readers get good quality writing for free. We aim to keep 80% of your matches as rated, high-quality work, and 20% as brand new, for you to be one of the first to discover. It’s very fun to use, and the writing is fantastic, give it a try - I’d love to hear your thoughts! Coming Next Our vision is to become the go-to way for authors to see their work published, to be the first step after a final draft is ready. Publishing is a tough business, even more so for smaller houses and literary magazines. We want to help them thrive. Our next phase is a match-making platform between authors and agents, publishers and editors so that wherever an author chooses to publish, fresh.ink can help.

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5yr ago

Galen Vinter

Project Pulse

I didn't realize how much I loved shorter fiction writing! I generally read more nonfiction, so it was nice surprise when I quickly got into several fiction pieces, one after another. It's really made a wider range of fiction so much more accessible. 👍 Also, the onboarding is also super helpful for both curating the content but also setting great expectations for the type of stuff I'd be reading. 👍

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5yr ago

Matt Brindley

@gvinter Thanks, Galen!

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5yr ago

Alejandro León

Spline

Hey guys, I tried this and it's very cool! Congrats to the team. Also, lovely design! Here is some feedback, hope it helps: - It would be nice to add support for the iPad and iPad Pro (my case). - Remembering parts of the long vertical text can be hard. Maybe adding some dots on the side scroll line with hotspots or sections could be helpful (or section dividers every once in a while). - A search feature could be really useful.

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5yr ago

Galen Vinter

Project Pulse

I'm also an iPad user and would love iPad support.

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5yr ago

Matt Brindley

@alelepd Thanks for your feedback, Alejandro! Great suggestions. We're testing out our tablet apps right now. We have some smaller quirks to fix, but hopefully it won't be long.

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5yr ago

Fresh Ink

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