I built Kerouac: GitHub contributions for writers

Once upon a commit, someone looked at GitHub’s little green squares and thought: what if writers had that?That someone was me! And the app is called Kerouac.For the last year, I’ve been building a writing studio that takes publishing seriously. If you write online, you already know the pain: your work is everywhere. A Substack from your current era, a Ghost blog from the one before that, a Medium publication, a personal site you keep meaning to revive, maybe even a YouTube script or two. Your body of work is scattered across the internet, and your motivation is just as scattered. You can’t see the pattern. You can’t feel the streak. You definitely can’t tell whether this year was better than last year.Kerouac is my answer to that.What Kerouac actually isAt its heart, Kerouac is a 365-day heatmap of your publishing life.Connect Substack, Ghost, Medium, Micro.blog, YouTube, any RSS feed, and Kerouac pulls in everything you’ve ever published and shows where you shipped, where you went…