Though I don't really like you advertising, thank you for the suggestion. As a computer science researcher I'll give you some feedback why your application is a total deal-breaker for me and my colleagues:

* It's not running on Linux. Nobody in our department runs windows or mac.

* We already have huge BibTex citation libraries that we use in papers and just reference the necessary papers. These citation library files grow and grow. I won't manually add citations for each paper.

* We collaborate and version through git. If collaborative writing and version control does not work at least as easy as our plaintext-git-handling, that's a hard no.

* You do know that for conference or journal submission word and LaTeX templates with given page limits in these templates are given, right? How would I use, say, LNCS in MonsterWriter? Writing seems not to be page-based. How do I know that I'm over the limit?

* My wife is a researcher in the social sciences, and they extensively use MS Word's change tracking and merging feature to write papers. If MonsterWriter does not support this in an accessible and visually appealing manner, it would be a hard no for her as well.

With your feature set, you're not really targeting researchers, even if you think you do.

Thank you for your time to answer, very much appreciated :)

It seems you're being downvoted for proposing a tool you created and disclaimed as such. I think that's perfectly fine and in the spirit of HN.

Just tried opening it. It's looks nice, but I'm going to write some quick, slightly negative, comments, based on your claims about using it.

The table formatting is not good enough. It's not obvious how to left-justify a column. It's also not clear how to line a column up along "." (which I often use for numbers). Both of these are fairly easy in LaTeX.

The outputted LaTeX looks OK, but it's not obvious how to format -- most journals, and Universities (for PhDs) will have a fixed style you have to use. I suppose I could take the LaTeX and randomly hack it, but then I need to learn LaTeX to fix any issues that causes.

both fair points, tables need still improvement.

Regarding the outputted LaTeX, the idea is to grow the amount of supported templates. So there would be templates for every important journal. For now the focus is to make the thesis template flexible enough that it works for most bachelor/master thesis.

It's cool you're using SetApp, thank you.

For HN reading along, SetApp is a way to distribute apps and get paid outside the app store. Really, that exists.

// Disclosure: Unless you are disavowing your ability as author to offer a recommendation that can be trusted, you probably mean "Disclosure" not "Disclaimer". Disclosure = here is my potential bias. Disclaimer = YMMV, no warranties express or implied.

You can also download the app without SetApp. No Subscription needed!