I Built An App That Punishes Writers If They Don't Write
Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?
My name is Burak Kanber, and I'm a software engineer, entrepreneur, musician, and sometimes-educator and writer. Some consider me an expert on machine learning; enough so that I've been approached to write and publish two books on the topic. Secretly, though, I wish I were a fiction novelist. There's just something "capital-R Romantic" about that lifestyle. I picture myself like Hemingway, earning a living by writing 500 clever words a day while I lounge by the pool.
I built WritePhobia because writing regularly is hard for me to keep up with. I'm always telling myself that I'll write that new blog post this weekend, or that I'll finally start the draft of that novel I've been thinking about. Like many others, I tend to "meta-write" more than I actually write. I'll dedicate hours to listening to podcasts on the craft of writing, but when it comes time to put pen to paper I find myself drifting off into something else.
Once I came to terms with my poor discipline I decided to build an app that punishes me for my bad habits. So far, I've got a few dozen users writing regularly on the app, which is great...
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