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Crowdsourced Writing Apps

The Coda for iPhone App Gets Rid of Writer’s Block By Asking Other

— January 26, 2014 — Tech
If your writing process is a constant influx of writer’s block coupled with slow writing, there is now an app that helps to cure your writer’s block called Coda for iPhone. When you run out of ideas, you can use the app that will help to boost your creative writing skills through a crowdsourced system of asking others around you and the community for help to aid your writing process.

The iOS app allows users to find help through friends or the community and the results that are contrived are up to the author to decide whether or not the submitted content is suitable for what the author wants. Through the author’s approval, the changes will automatically be merged into the original article of work.

The writing aid service is interested in saving time for the writer or author as he or she crowd-sources through the help of the community and individuals of the app.
Trend Themes
1. Crowdsourcing Writing Help - Coda for iPhone uses a crowdsourced system to help writers overcome writer's block and improve their creative writing skills, providing an opportunity for disruption in the writing assistance industry.
2. Collaborative Writing Tools - Coda for iPhone's merged editing feature allows for collaboration between writers, presenting an opportunity for disruption in the team collaboration software industry.
3. AI-powered Writing Assistance - The concept of crowdsourcing writing aid could be combined with artificial intelligence to provide even more personalized and efficient writing assistance, presenting an opportunity for disruption in the AI-powered writing assistant industry.
Industry Implications
1. Writing Assistance - Coda for iPhone can disrupt the writing assistance industry by offering a more collaborative, crowdsourced approach to writing aid.
2. Team Collaboration Software - Coda for iPhone's merged editing feature presents an opportunity for disruption in the team collaboration software industry.
3. AI-powered Writing Assistants - The concept of combining crowdsourcing with AI could disrupt the writing assistance industry by offering a more personalized and efficient writing aid solution.
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