Draft and story guide in sync
Characters, clues and promises link back to the scene that set them up, marked as setup, develop or payoff.
SaaS web app + subscriptions · Novelbound
A writing app that keeps a whole book in sync.
Novelbound is our own product: novel writing software where the draft and the story guide are one object, so Chapter 14 never contradicts Chapter 3. HanDI designed it, built it and runs it.
Product
Novelbound (our own)
Built with
Next.js, React and SQLite
Project type
Subscription web app, marketing site and SEO guides
The brief
Help writers finish the book, not just start it.
Most writing tools hold the words. Novelbound also holds the promises a story makes: every character, clue and setup is tied to the scene that created it, so a book cannot be marked finished while a setup is still unpaid.
HanDI built the whole thing: the app, the subscription billing, the export to Amazon-ready files, the marketing site, the blog and a library of guide pages that bring writers in from search.
What the app does
Features, built in.
Structure frameworks
Save the Cat, Hero's Journey, three-act, 7-point and Snowflake, with a health bar that shows when the story drifts off its beats.
Eleven kinds of book
Novels, memoir, poetry, picture books, graphic novels, stage plays, musicals and screenplays, each with its own shape.
A 90-day program
One question a day, from foundation and characters through the draft, revision and the listing.
Amazon-ready export
EPUB 3 and a print interior, with trim size, gutter, page count and spine width worked out from the real manuscript.
Listing checks
Catches the details Amazon rejects before you upload: title length, links in the description, too many keywords.
Private by design
No public side, every page checks who is asking, and the admin view never shows a title or a line of prose.
Subscriptions and a free trial
Magic-link sign-in, a 7-day free trial and monthly billing, with add-ons like the World Building pack.
Found in search
A blog and more than 30 guide pages on book formatting and story structure that answer what writers search for.
The work in use
Product, pricing and content.
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