{"slug": "show-hn-authrot-a-writing-studio-that-maps-your-characters-places-and-plot", "title": "Show HN: Authrot – a writing studio that maps your characters, places and plot", "summary": "Joe launched Authrot, a writing studio that uses AI to parse each chapter and map characters, places and objects into a relationship graph, addressing slowdowns he hit in Google Docs and Word past roughly 25 chapters. Authrot offers a story planner, continuity and plot-hole flagging, a rewindable relationship web, AI chat for corrections or full chapter drafting, real-time collaboration with branching alternate endings, in-browser import, EPUB/PDF/Word export, scheduled serial publishing and per-character narration. The Show HN post drew 2 points and 0 comments, with Joe requesting feedback from LitRPG and fantasy writers.", "body_md": "Hi HN, I'm Joe.\n\nI built Authrot, because Google Docs and Word slowed to a crawl on my phone once my story passed about 25 chapters. I started with what I wanted, fast navigation between chapters, and scrolling that stays smooth however long the book gets.\n\nThen, I wanted the story itself mapped out into a graph of connections by characters, places, and objects, all referenced to a chapter passage with context. Using AI to read each chapter, my prompts pick out these elements, and tracks how they change from chapter to chapter.\n\nHere is a summary of features I built:\n\n- Planner for building the story foundation, arcs and chapters\n\n- Continuity, setups and payoffs, open threads, and plot holes flagged against the earlier fact they break\n\n- A relationship web you can rewind to any chapter\n\n- Chat with AI about your story to help correct issues of any kind, or even draft the whole chapter.\n\n- Real-time document writing with collaborators, plus branches for alternate endings\n\n- Import parsed in your browser, export to EPUB, PDF and Word\n\n- Serial publishing on a schedule, and narration with a voice for each character\n\nI would love feedback, especially from anyone who has written for LitRPG or fantasy.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978646](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49978646)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-authrot-a-writing-studio-that-maps-your-characters-places-and-plot", "canonical_source": "https://authrot.app", "published_at": "2026-10-06 14:01:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-06 14:21:06.741337+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products", "ai-tools", "generative-ai", "natural-language-processing"], "entities": ["Authrot", "Joe", "Google Docs", "Microsoft Word", "Hacker News"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-authrot-a-writing-studio-that-maps-your-characters-places-and-plot", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-authrot-a-writing-studio-that-maps-your-characters-places-and-plot.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-authrot-a-writing-studio-that-maps-your-characters-places-and-plot.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-authrot-a-writing-studio-that-maps-your-characters-places-and-plot.jsonld"}}