Rant: That $60 prompt generator app was a total scam

Bought this fancy writing prompt app for 60 bucks thinking it'd spark new ideas. All it gave me was the same generic 'write about a door' junk I could get for free on Reddit. Anyone else get burned by paid writing tools?

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rowan_hayes3mo ago

Honestly, I fell for the same trap last year. Dropped $50 on one of those "premium prompt generators" and it was just a repackaged list of prompts from a free subreddit. Tbh, the only thing it helped me write was a frustrated review about how much better the free stuff is. Ngl, it made me swear off any paid writing tool that promises "unlimited creativity.

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anthony_wells3mo ago

The real trap is that people forget their own brain works better than any tool for finding their voice. I wasted time on a "story idea generator" that kept spitting out "a detective investigates a murder in a small town" over and over. What actually helped was just sitting down with a notebook and a timer, writing whatever garbage came out for ten minutes. That cheap process gave me more original ideas than any premium tool ever did. The paid stuff just makes you feel productive without actually producing anything real.

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