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The book you want doesn't exist. So I built Avooq. Launching on PH tomorrow.

Two years ago I entered a novel into a literary contest. The winner was chosen by fame, not quality. That was the push I needed.

I'm also a reader with a specific frustration: I've finished everything by my favorite authors. The sagas ended. The book I wanted didn't exist. No bookstore could give it to me.

So I built Avooq.

What it does: Describe what you want to read. Get a complete, coherent novel instantly. Not a writing assistant — a reading experience you design. For writers, it's a full first draft in one click.

The technical piece that makes it different: AI-generated long fiction breaks down fast — characters change appearance, plot points reset, locations contradict. I built an Entity Tracker that monitors every character, location and plot event across hundreds of pages in real time. The story stays consistent from chapter one to the end.

One thing I've been working on quietly: the quality gap between AI fiction and published novels is closing faster than people think. Through extensive training, the output is getting closer to the prose quality of published authors — not generic AI text. That's the real race. The Entity Tracker solves consistency. Our training solves believability.

Where I am: 200+ users. Early signs of PMF but not there yet.

What I've learned so far:

  1. The reader angle ("generate the book you can't find") resonates more in 1-on-1 than the writer angle
  2. Writing communities are hostile to AI fiction — r/writing, r/books removed my posts
  3. 81% of top 100 Amazon Teen Romance ebooks are AI-generated. Readers already consume it without knowing.

What I genuinely need help with:

  1. How do you reach readers frustrated with the literary market without triggering anti-AI backlash?
  2. For those who've found PMF in creative tools — what was the signal?
  3. Is "I'll generate the book I want to read" a real behavior at scale, or just my own frustration?

Launching on Product Hunt tomorrow!!
Free to try at avooq.es — 40 coins on signup, no card.

What book have you always wanted to read that nobody has written?

If you could generate any novel instantly, what would you create?
  1. The book my favorite author never wrote
  2. A story in a niche genre that doesn't exist yet
  3. A continuation of a saga that ended too soon
  4. I'd never read AI-generated fiction
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on April 8, 2026
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    Update: launched on PH today. Zero external community, launching cold. Let's see what happens. Will report back with honest numbers.

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