Nigh / show-me-the-story
<10 MB — self-hosted AI novel writer in a single Go binary with a web UI. Turn ideas into outlines and chapters with review, foreshadowing, fact-checking, and full-book polish. OpenAI-compatible APIs; Chinese & English.
Why this job: says: openai compatible; topics: openai-compatible
What it does
- Multiple projects; Chinese and English writing with independently switchable UI language.
- Batch outlines, long-term direction, ending intent, and planning reviews.
- Characters, worldview, organizations, relationship graphs, and story knowledge.
- Chapter drafting, review, paragraph editing, targeted revision, and optional auto-confirm.
- Extracted facts with source references, setting-change proposals, and foreshadow tracking.
Get started
No single install command. Read the steps in the README (opens in new tab)
- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 36 days ago
- Stars
- 638
- +6 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- 3 systems
- Mac, Windows, Linux
- Latest version
- v4.0.2
- Released 36 days ago
- Built with
- Go
- 67% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 1
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 86% closed
- 6 still open
- Pull requests
- 101 merged
- 1 waiting
- Releases
- 16
- 16 in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
More: download files, languages, topics and project record
Download files, v4.0.2
- Mac2 files, 250 downloads
- Windows1 file, 969 downloads
- Linux2 files, 203 downloads
Languages
- Go 67%
- Svelte 19%
- JavaScript 14%
- CSS 1%
Topics
- agent
- ai-writing
- creative-writing
- fiction-writing
- foreshadowing
- generative-ai
- go
- golang
- llm
- novel-generator
- openai-compatible
- self-hosted
Project record
- JobModel gateways
- StatusListed
- Commits239
- Forks80
- Watching3
- Stars in 28 days+20
- CreatedJun 3, 2026
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 7, 2026