Name: Foster
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Hey, PH! I’m Stew, one of the co-founders of Foster. Foster is a button that lives inside Google Docs. Writers can tap it to get collaborative support on their writing within 24 hours. Behind the scenes, we’ve built a collective of friendly, vetted writers, editors, and experts who love jumping into first drafts and helping improve them. We built this because writing on the Internet follows a power law. The best piece of writing on a topic tends to have an exponentially larger impact than the average piece. But writing great stuff is super hard. It’s hard to attract readers if your writing isn’t already great. And if you do find readers, you’re met with a deeper challenge: the majority of people who read things on the Internet do not comment or respond to them, and silence is a poor teacher. This leaves most writers publishing into the void, learning at a painfully slow pace. I wasted a couple of years publishing into the void before my co-founder Dan and I designed a better process for our own writing. It looks like this: 1. Write. 2. Rewrite alongside talented, constructive editors. 3. Improve by incorporating direct, tangible suggestions. 4. Publish and deliver more value to readers. We’ve spent months turning this process into a single button that lives in Google Docs that writers can tap to summon editors and experts to appear directly inside of their work. All drafts on Foster are privately routed to vetted contributors who we believe will be able to push them forward. A few of our early users are Hacker News regulars who have used Foster to improve their work before submitting it. These were both sent through Foster prior to being submitted to HN: We need a middle class for startups , What's the Future of IDEs?. And while it’s exciting to see individual pieces improve, many writers tell us that using Foster has elevated their writing skills generally (Tweet) and motivated them to write more (Tweet). Today, we’re opening up Foster to anybody who writes. You can go to our landing page, install our Chrome extension, and pick a plan based on how much you write. Your first draft is on us – you can use “FIRSTDRAFT” for a free month of our Hobbyist plan. We are deep believers in the power of feedback, so we hope you’ll let us know what you think in the comments!

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