Hello there, friends of StoryTime! Nat here, with the latest news.

Nat here, with the latest news from StoryTime. If you’re reading this, you signed up to get monthly updates about our development process.

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This Month

• Added an API endpoint that lets you get information about a single story, primarily to let AI agents slurp up context about the story you’re working on

• Fixed a bug where the session would crash if you reloaded it with multiple stories open

• Fixed a bug where deleting a story didn’t appear to delete it for other people who had the same room open

• Fixed a bug where you had to click on descriptions multiple times to make them editable

• Started taking screenshots of our backlog every time we deploy, so we’ll be able to show how the application is evolving over time

Next Month

I expect this to change because our backlog is, as always, in a state of flux as we talk to more potential customers, but right now between now and March we’ve got:

• Make the default for rooms that they’re private and can only be viewed by the person who created them. (We’ve learned that many people who take a look at the alpha/playground come away with the assumption that we don’t have any way to make a room private at all.)

• Add the “projected” date to open markers

• A better account/user page — this is also probably where the agent token will live

• Better logout flow — we’ve seen a few people accidentally log themselves out when they were trying to get back to the rooms page

• Better rooms page and room creation flow. This is an important part of the first impression of the app and the word I keep using to describe its current state is “goofy.”

Story Management in the AI Future

As we start building features specifically for AI agents we’ve been talking a lot about how project management tools fit into the new world enabled by tools like Claude Code. Does it even make sense for tools like this to have a GUI? In the future, will coding mostly start by asking a terminal, “What’s next?” Or will coding mostly involve agents working on agent-written task lists? Will companies even buy project trackers, or will they just build their own?

The phrase that Jesse uses is that StoryTime will “float at the level of human attention.” We think that human beings will still be talking with each other about what they need from software 5 years from now, but that a backlog in 2028 might look more like what a roadmap looked like in 2016.