Writers + Web Testers: Usability Test for Indie-Writer Tool (Dev Edits + Character Sheets)

I’m an indie writer building a web app for writers that generates developmental edit memos and character sheets from a fiction manuscript upload (plain text). I’m looking for 3 testers with any of these backgrounds: web/app testing, fiction writing, developmental editing.

What you’ll do:

Sign up and log in.

Upload a short fiction sample (your own work is fine; published or unpublished). Full manuscripts work best, but not required.

Run a job and review the results.

Send me quick feedback covering:

Any bugs/errors (screenshots helpful)

Confusing UI/wording

Performance/latency issues

Quality/usefulness of the output (writer/editor perspective)

Anything you expected but didn’t see

What I’m specifically testing

Signup/login flow (including email/spam folder edge cases)

Upload + word count handling (limit currently 150,000 words)

Genre selection + genre-specific feedback behavior

Output display, readability, and “does this feel usable?”

Deliverable

A short message with:

Bugs found (steps to reproduce)

3–5 usability notes (what felt unclear / what you’d change)

Optional: a quick rating of the dev edit memo + character sheet usefulness

Requirements

Comfortable testing a web app in a desktop browser

Able to provide clear notes (writer/editor feedback is a plus)

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