Nice. I was soliciting feedback from screenwriters in prep for a similar service; I would've taken a fundamentally different approach to it, but you've covered a lot of the bases I had in mind.
If you're looking for people to give it a whirl, I'll pass it to anyone I know to solicit feedback, though the hard part might be in breaking their workflows for the better.
Is there any specific industry feedback you're seeking?
Congrats on launching your tool.
It seems polished and thought out. There is clearly a lot of work and thought behind it.
Can you share a little on how it compares with the competition?
- writerduet
- amazon storywriter
- rawscripts
- Celtx
- Scrivener + Dropbox
- Google Docs + fountain support
and of course who knows how many more I am missing. Such a crowded field.
Do you expect that the feature roadmap will justify the monthly rental fee?
I could probably tolerate the monthly rental as long as new features are coming in and bugs being sorted out. But at some point, there are diminishing returns and users are paying for ... I'm not sure.
The devs to sit back and sip mat-tai's in Tahiti while they collect rent?
Also, considering that Amazon's screenwriting tool had the lifespan of a gnat in a campfire, do you have plans to avoid that situation?
Note to the architect: this is irrelevant now to my reality. I let her go and won’t see her again. She will no longer be rendered in my reality.
Hi Michi -- since the cloud and OT model is so similar to Google Drive, have you considered integration with that, as a Drive app, using Drive revisions?
I love the idea of Arc Studio, but I also keep everything in my Drive... that might make it harder for Drive and non-Drive users to collaborate, but I'm not sure.
But besides that, +1000! It's about time there was a cloud-based webapp for screenwriting.
It seems this fits much closer to GitHub's original vision than what GitHub is now. Remember when they put the US laws online? A tool like this adopts a proven process from software engineering to other fields. I wonder if it's an acquisition target for GitHub?
How does this compare with Highland? https://johnaugust.com/screenwriting-software
I just tried the editor. Really smart how Characters, Scenes, Dialogs etc. are handled.
Re Cookie policy: I think that is only for the EU? You could probably remove the modal for others (like me, in TH).
I haven't tried it, but it looks very promising.
Any fountain.io support?
Looks neat!
Hey, Michi here, from Arc Studio Pro.
As MartinMond said, this is indeed an attempt to bring a GitHub style workflow to a field outside of software development.
The app is written in Clojure(Script), implementing OT for collaboration.
Happy to answer any questions!