Susanne Ertl

Susanne Ertl

Author, editor, founder of ALIES.

About

ALIES Author grew out of a simple observation: writers don't fail because they lack talent. They fail because most tools ignore how they actually think and work. As an author and editor myself, I developed a guided writing system that takes writers from first idea to finished manuscript, scene by scene, in their own voice. Behind the app sits a broader framework used in schools, labour market services and integration programmes in Austria and Germany.

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1 Launch, 2 Co-Founders, 3 Awards: How we prepared for Product Hunt

We launched on Product Hunt on April 9, 2026. From this launch, we ended up with:

But the real work started weeks before launch day.

With @bengeekly , we spent weeks trying to understand how @producthunt actually works. Not by reading random launch guides , but by being active on the platform:

Susanne Ertl

1d ago

Hi from a writer who ended up building a tool

Hi! I'm Susanne author, editor, and the person behind ALIES Author. I kept seeing the same thing: writers with great ideas, stuck halfway through. Not because they couldn't write. Because nothing fit the way they actually work. ALIES is scene-based that's the core. The guidance and structure adapt to how you write. Just your story, your voice. Excited to be here!

Any other writers here who also ended up building something?

Qasim

1d ago

First-time builder working on a focus tool

Hey everyone

I m Qasim, currently building my first product

I kept running into the same problem while working, constantly switching apps mid-task and breaking focus without even realizing it

Tried using timers but they didn t really change anything for me, they just tracked time while I was distracted

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