I kept adding new characters, and it was difficult for me to keep track of everything going on in the story. I wasn't organized at all.

I do have a subscription to Claude, and it helps, sure, but it didn't exactly build a graph of all the story elements connecting together. Throwing 20 chapters into one context was just terrible at narrowing its focus.

I started building this tool as a way to help me with a few things...

First, was replace Google Docs, because that thing lagged like crazy after 20~ chapters.

Second, was scanning my chapters. I wanted to automate creating a graph of characters, places, factions, objects, monsters, everything. I even started mapping out plots, threads, promises, and events. I threw it all into a database, and am able to lay it all out on the table, in an easy to absorb format.

Want to see where someone traveled throughout the story? What about when they encountered others? Well, now I can! Replacing names and all their aliases throughout the whole book? Easy peasy. What about fixing plot holes? No problem, we can fix those too.

Anyways, I took the extra effort to make it available for everyone by throwing it on on k3s and building the extra framework around the workspace.

It's completely free to use. Scanning chapters requires AI credits, which you get 50 for free at signup. Enough to scan about 15 chapters, or start a new story.

If you need more credits, let me know and I'll gift you more.

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I built Authrot, because Google Docs and Word slowed to a crawl on my phone once my story passed about 25 chapters. I started with what I wanted, fast navigation between chapters, and scrolling that stays smooth however long the book gets.

Then, I wanted the story itself mapped out into a graph of connections by characters, places, and objects, all referenced to a chapter passage with context. Using AI to read each chapter, my prompts pick out these elements, and tracks how they change from chapter to chapter.

Here is a summary of features I built:

- Planner for building the story foundation, arcs and chapters

- Continuity, setups and payoffs, open threads, and plot holes flagged against the earlier fact they break

- A relationship web you can rewind to any chapter

- Chat with AI about your story to help correct issues of any kind, or even draft the whole chapter.

- Real-time document writing with collaborators, plus branches for alternate endings

- Import parsed in your browser, export to EPUB, PDF and Word

- Serial publishing on a schedule, and narration with a voice for each character

It's completely free to use, no subscriptions. You get 50 free credits to use AI. I would love feedback, especially from anyone who has written for LitRPG or fantasy.

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It did have a slight learning curve, but 5th graders were competing just fine against high schoolers haha.

The hard corners when its folded is a huge design breaker. The whole thing is THICK when folded. Jobs only added the bezel because it competed with the cases wrapped on phones. I don't see how any case will work on this behemoth.

I've seen what happens to the fold crease after a year, its a bit noticeable. It will degrade the prestigious quality of the brand.

Lastly, this copies all other fold phones. I'm surprised is all.

So here you go!

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To each their own.

Most useful when you work with large datasets, if you can reduce a workload that takes hours into minutes or less, congrats, otherwise, you are forced to wait the hours. Either way, job security.

A $350k mortgage with bills, is expensive. Will eat up a whole check if you don't make more than $140k/year.

Oh crap, its 1.5 weeks away now, and I need sound effects. All the apps have prefilled spooky sound effects. None of the apps let me auto-play sound effects, because I'm short on actors.

I do web dev, simple, I just make one. Tadah, in about an hour I got a prototype. In 4 hours I finished it. I had some boilerplate already done to get it up on a URL.

Next actual sound fx...

1. Download a few from free soundfx sites.

2. Crap, I need specific ones, found ElevenLabs, and generated my own, and downloaded a few already generated by others.

3. Upload to R2

4. Hardcode into the throwaway webapp

5. The show is ON.

Got a good 2.5 hours of about 200+ people, and sometimes the sound fx lined up perfect with actors scaring our guests. FUN!

Now, I'm showing it off on HN, before I throw it away. Goodbye.

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The technology behind the scenes and UI design are all well made.