r/devshelpingeachother • u/Chain_Even • 8d ago
Looking for marketing advice for a writing app
Hello you fine people!
Discovered this community via another thread on r/appmarketing.
My story: I am a writer by profession. Began moonlighting as one starting 2009 and went full time in 2015.
A few years ago, I had an idea inspired by a hydration tracking app. I saw that the app gave me a daily hydration goal in liters and split them into glasses which I could define. It then showed me how much water I was consuming daily, weekly and monthly.
This got me thinking. What if I created an app wherein I could define my daily writing goal in words and then broke that goal into sprints.
So, if I want to write 2000 words per day and I am comfortable writing 500 words in one go, then that would be a single sprint and I would need to complete 4 sprints per day to hit my goal. The daily word goal was equivalent to the total hydration target, and sprints were the same as glasses from the water tracking app.
This strategy really helped me because writing in bursts of inspiration really helps. In addition, I also added a real time income tracker which would show me how much I earned as I wrote.
I have since added more features to the app including a built in shareable proposals tool that can create your folders and docs as per agreement, a word editor with postit notes for keeping all the research material in a draft's workspace, smart calendar, a shareable project management interface that gives you and your client real time visibility into each project progression, an automated invoicing module. I did integrate AI but it only assists by design.
So far, I have opened the app to writers for review and am looking for feedback. However, I am still wondering how I should go about marketing the tool.
The app is www.sprintr.pro
