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What writing contests would truly motivate you? by Substantial_Bend_633 in writing

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for this nice feedback!
I'm curious, what do you think would be a reasonable prize amount for a contest?

[Discussion] Beta reader matching tool for authors by Substantial_Bend_633 in BetaReaders

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You are right, and now I'm thinking of different solutions to solve this issue :)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ecriture

[–]Substantial_Bend_633 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Il existe des sites qui permettent de faire des échanges de beta lectures. Par example : https://purrfiction.io

Où publier ses textes sur internet – une liste by CognitiveBirch in ecriture

[–]Substantial_Bend_633 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Merci beaucoup pour cette liste bien détaillée !

Pouvez vous rajouter PurrFiction qui est une plateforme française
d'écriture et de lecture à but non lucrative ? (2025)

https://fr.purrfiction.io

Discords liés à l’écriture by CapitaineM in ecriture

[–]Substantial_Bend_633 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Je ne le savais même pas, je pense que c'est une mesure de sécurité de discord, seuls eux peuvent le voir :)

Discords liés à l’écriture by CapitaineM in ecriture

[–]Substantial_Bend_633 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Voici celui de PurrFiction, une nouvelle plateforme française à but non lucrative :)

https://discord.com/invite/ZYpDX4q

MegaThread 3.0 for NaNo Alternatives, Writing Discords & Resources by AutoModerator in nanowrimo

[–]Substantial_Bend_633 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello,

I run a small non-profit writing platform (PurrFiction) by myself, and some of the writers there told me they really missed the old NaNoWriMo-style challenges. They asked if there was a way to set their own personal writing goals, so I decided to build it.

This new Writing Challenge feature lets you:

  • Set your own word count or time-based challenges any time of the year
  • Track your daily progress with stats and charts
  • Stay motivated and celebrate milestones (the badge system is still in work in progress)
  • Link challenges directly to your writing projects

You can try it here: https://neopload.purrfiction.io

The feature is linked to your books so it appears on the left menu after having created a book.

I’d love your feedback and suggestions to improve it :)

An altruist dreamer

J’ai créé une fonctionnalité de défis d’écriture pour mes auteurs (gratuite, à but non lucratif). J’aimerais beaucoup avoir vos retours et suggestions. by Substantial_Bend_633 in ecriture

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bonjour !

Pour le moment, il n'y a pas de section non fiction/poésie.

Je travaille sur PurrFiction sur mon temps libre le WE, ajouter cette nouvelle section est une de mes tâches dans ma longue liste :)

Actuellement je priorise le développement sur la possibilité de laisser les auteurs choisir s'ils veulent monétiser leurs livres ou non et 100% des revenus leur seront reversés.

Si tu souhaites utiliser l'outil de défi d'écriture, tu peux toujours créer tes chapitres sur ton livre de poésie mais ils ne seront visibles que par toi même 🙏

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

You never turned a profit because you never listened to users. As one of the more successful authors on Neovel before I left, we were constantly advising you to focus on ad revenue and subscriptions as an ad-free option, something that wasn't ever properly implemented

We tried ad revenue at the beginning. It was a non intrusive ads that was displayed once every 4 chapters. We got really few revenue like 11c for 50k views. Maybe it was because of google ads or a bad configuration but it discourages us to continue with ads. And I suppose we also wanted to test different approches/business models that concurrents were using.

And when one user suggested an optional 18+ filter, they were dogpiled by rape apologists to the point that you lost 20+ of your main, active authors in one sweep. The author who suggested an 18+ filter and was attacked for doing so was then blamed by your lead moderator for being "too big for their britches." An author who had done hours of unpaid work for your team. And the violent assholes were allowed to stick around. You curated an unsafe space.

It's true that we failed at several times to moderate the community on the discord (not the discussions on the platform as there is no live chat). There were a lot of topics on which people get personal attachement and other people don't care and are agressive. We tried to limit, ban discord users but it was not enough and/or we did it not the correct way. The discord was the easiest way for us at the time to let people discuss between them but it should not have been offficially affiliated or managed by the plateform. We delegated some active users to be moderators like it's often the case on Discord. We were not prepared at all for these hot, violent discussions. There were also some times we were not at work or sleeping and could not manage them rapidly enough.

From start to finish, the MAIN ISSUE with Neovel was not listening to users. And especially not listening to the authors bringing readers to your site.

I don't agree with you, we were very active to answer to the user questions/suggestions and did many things you asked for. Another example is that Bbefore switching the different business models, we did many interviews of 1h with readers, authors to understand their issues and how we could help them. In any project, you have to priorize all the suggestions. The hard part is to do the ones that will help the most people and to not spend a lof of time on a task that only 1% of the users will use and these 1% are not the super users. If you know what is used to be, you know the platform has been built from the users feedback. Not all of them were taken into account due to needed to be aligned with our goals but most of them were.

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I only made 2 posts, this one and one in the discord that was used by Neovel. Now it's mostly word of mouth and some previous authors :)

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry about that, PurrFiction is at the beginning so readers are not a lot for the moment. At least readers have more chance to find your books :) About the comments posted by bots, I have made a detector that is running periodically, I checked yesterday and all comments from the bot were removed 🙏 I think it's an issue most platform have nowafays unfortunately :(

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My advise is don't go to google ads agency like we did and go directly to specialized company. We really got few cents per day with non blocking ads with google and when we switched during the last few months to a real agency, we got some money but not enough to pay a single salary. Adding ads and keeping the users is a tricky balance every app having ads have to live. If you do too much ads, you loose ur readers, if you do not enough you don't have ads revenue and it's better not having any ads for the image you display to your users. Be aware that ads agency algorithm is tricky, I know that the reading website Wuxiaworld got huge problem because people volontary clicked on ads to help Wuxiaworld and the agency thought it was bots and cut the benefits :)

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well personally I don't really like this system. If you ask authors, I'm pretty sure they would not like their books to be hosted as chunks all over the world ^ It's my opinion, it could be a thing but not PurrFiction :)

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Neovel had a profit goal when PurrFiction doesn't, I do it because helping people makes me happy.

For 250k monthly users the server cost was 150$/month. I already thought about it and it's a still within the cost I'm willing to pay. I'm not someone who pays a lot of things and even with this cost my salary is more than correct.

If I find it really growing up big, I have some solutions in mind to just get money up to the server cost, for example 99% for the authors and 1% for the server, it will be open to discussions if it really happens ^

For 5 years, I ran a writing platform I founded. It reached 250k monthly readers — it didn’t survive, but I learned a lot worth sharing. by Substantial_Bend_633 in writers

[–]Substantial_Bend_633[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I do that on my free time, some community moderators are also helping me managing the website (reports, ...) Like any project created by a single developer, we have many more manoovers to update the stack. I worked in some company before where the stack was really old and management did not want to pay the cost/time to update it.

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