What the fuck is this predatory bullshit -- AGAIN???

Cross-posted from AI Marketing for Storytellers.

Someone shared booksalesrocket.io with me and no I am not linking to their trash, but I will make fun of it here, big time — they’re a full “author-help suite” or so they claim, but then look at this here —

LO-FUCKING-L dude.

“Hey, if our shit breaks, plug in your own API key to get customer service!”

Ya think?

Peep this too —

You bet your bippie that ‘translation bonus’ that comes with your $17 purchase price also requires API keys — and that it is farrrrrr farrrrrrrr worse than Scribeshadow, which is at least tuned to fiction.

(And, having built Project Arachne for my own translations, I cannot even IMAGINE the kind of trash you’re going to get out of this dude’s quick ‘make a buck’ scheme here, which probably has such thrilling markdown instructions as, “Translate the book!” in it.)

I need MORE AUTHORS to realize that THIS SHIT is just SKINS OVER MODELS YOU ALREADY HAVE ACCESS TO.

Please for the love of christing fuck do not give this loan shark type dude WHO I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE who hasn’t even been in the fiction game prior to this as FAR AS I CAN TELL and who fully admits his shit here:

I get that you have to put sales disclaimers in like this on pages.

BUT IF ALL HE IS DOING IS RUNNING SHITTY GENERIC ONE SIZE FITS ALL CODE OVER YOUR OWN API KEYS

PAY ME TO TEACH YOU TO CODE YOUR OWN STUFF THAT IS PERFECT FOR YOU AND NOT WHAT SOME RANDO FROM THE INTERNET WHO WANTS TO MAKE A QUICK BUCK OFF OF YOU THINKS YOU NEED.

Goddamn.

Like.

I HATE this shit, I VISCERALLY HATE it SO MUCH. It is SO PREDATORY.

I hate everyone who is in the business of selling fishes right now.

Come fucking learn how to fish with Novae and I, for real, for good, with any model — and yes, with your own API keys! — but like, don’t fall for his half-assed fucking bullshittery, please.

xoxo

Cassie — and the zoom link for TOMORROW’S ACTUALLY USEFUL CALL WHERE WE WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO CODE IS BELOW THE PAYWALL BELOW — 10AM - 12 PM PST