Announcing Neurotic Stix Pro
So just because I'm hiding in the attic doesn't mean I haven't been working on anything.
One unsurprising thing is that I'm working on a novel (while shopping around another novel).
But the surprising thing is that, even though I struggle with communicating with humans, I just released a neurotic app that's all about communicating with humans… by sending them goofy, animated stickers. If you're one of the seven people tracking my trajectory, you'll know that three years ago I released a free Messages sticker pack called Neurotic Stix. For reasons outside of my control, it did pretty well. And today (or maybe yesterday), I'm releasing Neurotic Stix Pro, which is a fully-fleshed-out app that lets you write your own captions on animated stickers. You just don't know what it's like to apologize to someone properly until you've tried to apologize with a poorly-drawn-poorly-animated sticker using your own pathetic words! You can send them from the included Messages sticker pack, or even share them from the app to Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, email or however you prefer to apologize to people. The neurotic possibilities are endless! 😱🌪
Oh. Also. For one of the few times in my creative career, I'm not giving this thing I made away for free. Well, it's free to try out. And then if you want to make more than two custom stickers, you'll have to readjust your lifestyle to afford the one-time fee of $1.99 USD. I don't expect to make much money off this thing. But I spent many hours, at night, between the day job, the family life, the novel writing, the migraines, and the worrying… to build this thing from scratch. And so I thought I'd experiment with actually charging for it. I'll report back on whether this plan fails, or if it really fails. I hope you like it enough to try it out, and even better if you're willing to pay less than 1/10 trillionth of the U.S. national debt to help me out.
For more information about this so-called app, check out the app home page, which has more details. Here are some of the stickers you can create and share:
Feel free to send me feedback about the app, or also, let me know if you want me to report back on what the whole experience has been like to create and publish an app.
Get the app on the iOS App Store.