Ric Aruffo

Happy New Year PH people! So I'm trying to work out my fears of launching my first product. I'm not quite there yet, as I need to find Beta testers to put it through its paces. The product is a necessity built out of frustration while trying to write a Short Story/novella. I needed an all-in-one platform designed specifically for fantasy authors, or anyone passionate about building rich,...

I've been working on a series of books for a Novella. I have tried all the tools out there, and they just lure you in and want more money and flood your email with "specials". I've spent 20 years in tech and design, but when I finally tried to write my own fantasy story, I saw a profound flaw in the tools available. They weren't built for creativity; they were built for recurring revenue. I was...

I almost quit writing a fantasy short story that I have been working on for 30 years. The story has been in my head, and I had LOTS of scrap peices of paper, so I went online. HUGE mistake! Seriously. After 20 years of building complex systems for others, I was defeated by the sheer number of hoops I had to jump through just to organize my own fictional world. I'd open my notes, lose my place...

Tired of cloud lock-in, monthly fees, and worrying about "sync failed" messages? Meet MythoScribe: the powerful, serverless writing studio for fantasy and sci-fi authors, built by a 20-year tech and design veteran who was fed up with the existing options. The breakthrough? It's all in a single file. MythoScribe bundles its React editor, world-building Codex, and database into one highly...

I’ve spent the last 20 years building and designing web applications and websites for some of the best tech and design firms in the world. I understand complexity, UI/UX, and data architecture. But when I finally sat down to write my own fantasy short story, all that experience couldn't save me from the creative fatigue caused by the tools themselves. The process was broken. I was forced to use...