Last August marked the one-year anniversary of when I started to build Subtext,my Saas for writers. I started this blog post in Drafts the week of the 18th, and am only now getting around to publishing it.
That’s how busy and crazy excited I have been working on it.
I’m in the midst of a major update right now with tons of cool new features, but I thought it would be fun to log everything I’ve been able do in just 12 short months:
- Gists
- Videocast Documentation
- 409+ Storyforms
- Narrative Argument
- Structure Builder
- Storyform Connections
- Treatment View
And all of this completely one-hundred percent on my own.
Which is part of its massive appeal to me.
Features Discovered Along the Way
The Narrative Argument was not a part of the original release, but rather was a compelling feature I discovered about three months into development. Everyone struggles with the Dramatica theory of story; the app is overwhelming and the terminology even more so.
Subtext is my move to make Dramatica more appealing to the masses.
The Structure Builder was also not a part of the original release, but could be now considered the core feature. And the newest version in development blows the current one away.
Reunited with a Past Love
All of this while starting out knowing zilch about Laravel and PHP. And even less about VueJS and JavaScript.
When I was a kid I taught myself Assembly Language and C, thinking I would make video games. But then I got sidetracked with a career in animation, and only recently rediscovered my love for programming.
The idea that I can build something, push it to a server, and then watch as people around the world engage with it creates a joy within me unlike anything else.
I’m looking forward to increasing that joy over the course of the next year.
