Drafters Meet Editors

Writing fiction is one of my hobbies. Something I noticed among my writing friends is that many of them had a distinct preference between drafting new prose vs editing existing prose. Some like the freedom of writing fresh, others like having the existing prose to work with. I'm a drafter, myself. I couldn't help but wonder, what if I could convince someone who enjoyed editing more to do the work for me? Of course we would need to share creative direction, but surely we could work that out, if we were broadly compatible in our interests and values. It sure would be a commitment though, with a lot of shared effort and emotional involvement...

So basically I built a simple matchmaking site for writers who want to participate in this hypothetical style of working relationship. It features compatibility questions about the obvious drafter/editor preference, but also miscellaneous other working style questions. It has writing samples instead of profile pictures. I figure if nothing else, it can serve as a fun personality quiz site for writers to share their style.

On the backend, it's quite a simple Phoenix/Elixir web app. I can't quite use the default generated controllers and HTML forms, except in the admin UI running on a hidden port, but the database models and the HTML forms to update them are pretty basic. What impresses me about Phoenix as a framework is that most of the code manages to stay basic when doing basic tasks.