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BadDrafts
750 Words
The Most Dangerous Writing App
The Most Dangerous Writing Prompts
Writing Prompts
Daily Page
Written? Kitten!
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BadDrafts is a daily writing app built on a contrarian thesis: the reason most people don't write daily isn't time, it's the pressure to write something good. So BadDrafts inverts that. Each day you get an absurd prompt (write a Yelp review for the sun, your villain's origin story in emojis, etc.). The explicit goal is to write something terrible. 50 to 500 words. No editing guilt.
The whole system rewards consistency over quality. Streaks track every day you show up. Badges fire for milestones. A community feed lets you read and upvote other writers' gloriously terrible drafts. Multiple leaderboards rank the worst writers of the week.
If a prompt actually sparks something real, you can expand it into a longer piece. There's also a Chaos Mode for timed sprints, a portfolio feature for serious writers, and a curated gig board.
Free to use, no premium upsell at launch.
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BadDrafts's answer:
The "write badly" thesis. Most writing apps treat writing like work, so the blank page feels like an obligation. BadDrafts inverts the pressure: the explicit goal is to write something terrible. Absurd prompts, a Terrible Score that rewards typos and clichรฉs, leaderboards for the worst writers of the week, and a community that celebrates bad first drafts. Streaks and gamification reward consistency, not quality. It's the only writing app I've seen where "trying to write well" is the wrong move.
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None of the alternatives let you write badly on purpose. 750words gives you a daily quota with no personality. Reedsy Prompts is a static library with no app, community, or streaks. r/writingprompts is a community but lives on Reddit with no structure. BadDrafts mashes all three (daily habit + absurd prompts + community gallery) together and wraps it in gamification that explicitly rewards consistency over quality. If you've ever opened a writing app, stared at the blank page, and closed it because you didn't feel like writing "something good," this is what you actually wanted.
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BadDrafts's answer:
Writers who want to write daily but get blocked by perfectionism. Aspiring fiction writers building a habit. BookTok and Substack-curious people experimenting with voice. The 30-something who keeps saying "I should write more" but hasn't opened Day One in six months. Comedy-leaning and absurdist-writing fans. Generally: people who want daily writing to feel like a 5-minute game on the bus, not a discipline they're failing at.
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Honestly: BadDrafts is in early access, MVP-stage, no enterprise customers and no paying users yet (Premium is dormant by design until the founding member cohort fills). The first 250 signups become Founding Members with Premium free for six months as a thank-you for showing up early. If you're reading this and want to be one of those 250, the door is open.
BadDrafts's answer:
I kept noticing the same thing: I'd open a writing app, stare at the blank page, close it. The barrier wasn't time. It was the implicit pressure to write something good before I'd even started. Existing tools either felt too precious (Day One), too publishable (Substack), or too lifeless (750words). So I built the opposite. A daily writing app where writing badly is the explicit goal, where absurd prompts remove the pressure to be original, and where the community celebrates terrible first drafts. Solo founder, MVP stage, learning from real users in real time.