StageScribe: Specialized Formatting SaaS for Playwrights and Librettists

👋 I watched the video demo… you ask four questions above, so: 1. Yes, I feel the demo makes clear what BeatStack does. Enough so that it got me jazzed enough to jump to the webpage, which I tooled around a bit. 2. Yes, I feel the demo moves quickly enough. 3. No. It seems to me you aren’t over-explaining. As I intimated in #1, there’s just enough there that it drove me to visit your website. 4. Perhaps two things are confusing: 4a. Are all of the capabilities you demonstrate (except for the AI scene generation) /truly/ divorced from all AI? So if I never connected an agent to the software, all the other functionality would still work? (*e.g.*, the detail where as you’re writing the text the software creates a floating bookmark where it estimates beats should be landing) 4b. is the tool creating and placing the doodles? (And presumably that /does/ require the AI?) Is there an option for the user to add their own doodles? (A trivial point, but I agree with you it seems a fun capability.) Ok, enough about what you want; on to what I want (😃 I write that tongue-in-cheek; please don’t take that as me being aggressive!) But I do want something. The tool looks awesome to me. I feel I could be inspired and comfortable creating in it. The pricing is acceptable. The ability to fully eschew AI (see my question at 4a above) is appealing. But I write for live theater: scripts for plays and librettos for musicals and operas. And it’s different from writing a screenplay; it just is. Our formats are different, our needs are ever-so-slightly out-of-phase with screenwriters’ needs. As one small example, it’s not unheard of for theater scripts to be much more free-form in layout. Granted, at some point if I’m being free-form enough, I should stop fighting the script-writing software and turn to something like LibreOffice. Which is how I’ve been writing the last *n* years, regardless of the amount of layout structure. But moving to LO (or Pages or Word) means losing so much other functionality. As another small example, when writing a libretto it’s nice to be able to show simultaneous singing of different lyrics side-by-side. Trivial in LibreOffice (write inside a table). Not trivial in the dedicated script-writing software I’ve tried. Is there *any* way you could make BeatStack also work for writers writing for live theater? I’m convinced for me it would be a no-brainier purchase if so. I’d love to read your thoughts on this. And I would completely understand a business decision to say “no; this is for screenwriting only.” Do feel free to DM me if you’d rather discuss this away from the thread. Regardless, good luck with your project!

👋 I watched the video demo… you ask four questions above, so: 1. Yes, I feel the demo makes clear what BeatStack does. Enough so that it got me jazzed enough to jump to the webpage, which I tooled around a bit. 2. Yes, I feel the demo moves quickly enough. 3. No. It seems to me you aren’t over-explaining. As I intimated in #1, there’s just enough there that it drove me to visit your website. 4. Perhaps two things are confusing: 4a. Are all of the capabilities you demonstrate (except for the AI scene generation) /truly/ divorced from all AI? So if I never connected an agent to the software, all the other functionality would still work? (*e.g.*, the detail where as you’re writing the text the software creates a floating bookmark where it estimates beats should be landing) 4b. is the tool creating and placing the doodles? (And presumably that /does/ require the AI?) Is there an option for the user to add their own doodles? (A trivial point, but I agree with you it seems a fun capability.) Ok, enough about what you want; on to what I want (😃 I write that tongue-in-cheek; please don’t take that as me being aggressive!) But I do want something. The tool looks awesome to me. I feel I could be inspired and comfortable creating in it. The pricing is acceptable. The ability to fully eschew AI (see my question at 4a above) is appealing. But I write for live theater: scripts for plays and librettos for musicals and operas. And it’s different from writing a screenplay; it just is. Our formats are different, our needs are ever-so-slightly out-of-phase with screenwriters’ needs. As one small example, it’s not unheard of for theater scripts to be much more free-form in layout. Granted, at some point if I’m being free-form enough, I should stop fighting the script-writing software and turn to something like LibreOffice. Which is how I’ve been writing the last *n* years, regardless of the amount of layout structure. But moving to LO (or Pages or Word) means losing so much other functionality. As another small example, when writing a libretto it’s nice to be able to show simultaneous singing of different lyrics side-by-side. Trivial in LibreOffice (write inside a table). Not trivial in the dedicated script-writing software I’ve tried. Is there *any* way you could make BeatStack also work for writers writing for live theater? I’m convinced for me it would be a no-brainier purchase if so. I’d love to read your thoughts on this. And I would completely understand a business decision to say “no; this is for screenwriting only.” Do feel free to DM me if you’d rather discuss this away from the thread. Regardless, good luck with your project!

👋 I watched the video demo… you ask four questions above, so: 1. Yes, I feel the demo makes clear what BeatStack does. Enough so that it got me jazzed enough to jump to the webpage, which I tooled around a bit. 2. Yes, I feel the demo moves quickly enough. 3. No. It seems to me you aren’t over-explaining. As I intimated in #1, there’s just enough there that it drove me to visit your website. 4. Perhaps two things are confusing: 4a. Are all of the capabilities you demonstrate (except for the AI scene generation) /truly/ divorced from all AI? So if I never connected an agent to the software, all the other functionality would still work? (*e.g.*, the detail where as you’re writing the text the software creates a floating bookmark where it estimates beats should be landing) 4b. is the tool creating and placing the doodles? (And presumably that /does/ require the AI?) Is there an option for the user to add their own doodles? (A trivial point, but I agree with you it seems a fun capability.) Ok, enough about what you want; on to what I want (😃 I write that tongue-in-cheek; please don’t take that as me being aggressive!) But I do want something. The tool looks awesome to me. I feel I could be inspired and comfortable creating in it. The pricing is acceptable. The ability to fully eschew AI (see my question at 4a above) is appealing. But I write for live theater: scripts for plays and librettos for musicals and operas. And it’s different from writing a screenplay; it just is. Our formats are different, our needs are ever-so-slightly out-of-phase with screenwriters’ needs. As one small example, it’s not unheard of for theater scripts to be much more free-form in layout. Granted, at some point if I’m being free-form enough, I should stop fighting the script-writing software and turn to something like LibreOffice. Which is how I’ve been writing the last *n* years, regardless of the amount of layout structure. But moving to LO (or Pages or Word) means losing so much other functionality. As another small example, when writing a libretto it’s nice to be able to show simultaneous singing of different lyrics side-by-side. Trivial in LibreOffice (write inside a table). Not trivial in the dedicated script-writing software I’ve tried. Is there *any* way you could make BeatStack also work for writers writing for live theater? I’m convinced for me it would be a no-brainier purchase if so. I’d love to read your thoughts on this. And I would completely understand a business decision to say “no; this is for screenwriting only.” Do feel free to DM me if you’d rather discuss this away from the thread. Regardless, good luck with your project!