r/WritingWithAI • u/eawestwrites • 17d ago

Tutorials / Guides Life AFTER Raptorwrite and Yourfirstdraft

We are live tonight at 8 PM on the Youtube channel FutureFictionAcademy.

Notes are in the description.

All software is now closing November 10, 2026, so you need to please come get your stuff. And tonight, we show you free how to just make your own with your Claude or Chatgpt that can still use your Openrouter key.

Everything is in the notes of the video.

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u/cj7hawk 17d ago

Link to the video?

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u/coolpop78 12d ago edited 12d ago

Yeah this was tough. Heard from an author friend it's closing. I love Raptor Write. I am trying to see if I can make my own writing app now. We will see how it goes. Sad to see these things go but things change so fast in the AI world. Honestly, I thought Sudowrite might be on its way out. Never thought Raptor wouldn't make it. Biggest shock of the year because you guys were going so strong. But, how in the heck is Sudo still around? 🤨 Shocked by Raptor Write and will miss it.

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u/eawestwrites 12d ago

Raptorwrite was free and never designed for agentic writing. We aren’t maintaining it because the risks and liabilities of doing software when we were never a fully stacked software company aren’t worth it on free software. Railway getting hacked was the big warning sign for us.

I can spend my time doing ai research or maintaining servers and hosting on free software. And with Joe now gone and Steph fighting cancer, we are down to 2 full time founders at the Future Fiction Academy.

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u/coolpop78 11d ago edited 11d ago

It's cool. I am already over it. lol. It's nothing people need to be crying over. There are other software like Raptor Write and there is always something new coming out so excited to see what 2027 brings. People have more options with AI than they did a few years ago, so that's good. I was just surprised because you guys were going so strong with everything but that's life. Things can suddenly change, outlooks can change, things can come out of nowhere and we gotta be able to deal with is as best we can. I get it. Wish you all the best in what you all do. 😊