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by jeromec 5722 days ago
Very nice. This combines two of my interests, book writing and tech startups. :)

First impressions: the homepage looks good, nice and neat, but doesn't communicate "what's in it for me" to the user easy/fast enough. You have a great video demo, but I didn't even notice it was there until after I read comments here. Just do a screen capture of the page with the video, crop the video image, and stick that on the home page as a link to the video. Pictures are so much more engaging for visitors than just text.

Next, the FAQ and video demo, etc. should exist on the same site design as the homepage. I can understand this is an early release, and the crowd here at HN is familiar with Posterous, but anyone from the outside would think "huh?" when jumping to a different looking page. It doesn't look as professional.

The actual product looks very cool, simple and effective, as it should be. I especially like the character name generator. :) I think the site should also be clear about how the author's work is safe. As a dabbling author I will certainly bookmark this site! A feature request would be to see an overview of everything created -- characters, scenes, etc. -- on the same page to provide a good mental outline of the book for the author.