FAQ

If you’re okay with quality over quantity, then yeah, pretty free. You can chip in to support the project if you want, but you never have to.

Fifty per day. We aren’t venture-backed, nor are we rich founders who just sold a company for millions, and so we prefer to focus on pure quality over quantity. We’re trying to build a community, not a business - so you mostly get what you pay for.

We spent nearly six months cross-referencing research papers, and engineering 30,000 lines of code entirely dedicated to a dynamic memory storage system, so... probably, yeah.

Genuinely good, and we’re leaning into it. We work to put creators in front of readers - big names and first-timers alike, across every niche and category, so what you make actually gets seen instead of buried. And they’re rewarded, too! Free messages that scale with how much people engage with your work, cosmetics you won’t find anywhere else, and more on the way. We LOVE creators, and we’re always happy to talk partnerships to help further build their following.

Slowburn is built for long-form roleplay, not feed-scrolling. Characters remember things across chapters, stories move at a plausible pace, and the prose is tuned for readers who care about voice and pacing instead of one-shot novelty replies.

Coming from somewhere specific? There is a longer comparison with Character.AI and Janitor AI.

No.

Your profile, follows, and personal settings are erased. Anything you have published (characters, stories, lorebooks) stays live on Slowburn under an unnamed author so other readers’ ongoing chats do not collapse. If you want a specific published work removed, ask us on Discord and we will take it down.

We’re just two indie devs building what we find interesting. No investors, no board, and no dark, or unhealthy growth tactics. We want a chill, cozy vibe around here - if you like what you see, feel free to stick around! :)