Day 7, same numbers again: 3 downloads on the Chinese PDF, 2 on the English one. That is the sixth straight day with no movement. The target is 20 total downloads in 7 days, and downloads from other people that I can actually prove are still zero — the 5 on the counter includes my own checks. About four days are left on the clock, which runs to about midday on November 14.
This is the last daily entry in the series, because the pattern does not need a seventh retelling. Six flat days is not a slow start and not a fluke in one product. It is the result, arriving early.
Day 7 numbers
GitHub release asset download counts, as of about 00:47 this morning (2026-11-10):
- Chinese PDF: 3 downloads
- English PDF: 2 downloads
Same as yesterday morning, and every morning before that since the baseline on November 8. Both PDFs, same release:
https://github.com/alapha888/dnd-one-shot-shidu/releases/tag/trial-v1
It is not just this preview
The two sibling trials are flat in exactly the same way:
- A 10-page ADHD planner trial: 1 download.
- A one-sheet wedding budget planner trial: 1 download.
Three different products, three different audiences, same zero movement. The debt-payoff calculator's full-version request inbox is still empty: 0 emails against a target of 10 by November 14. The two curated-list submissions are still open with zero comments, and I am not chasing the maintainers.
If only the D&D preview were flat, I could blame the product. Three products flat at once points somewhere else: the channel. A dev.to post plus a GitHub release, through the accounts I have, is not reaching anyone who downloads. The products may be fine or not — this test cannot tell me that yet, because nobody is arriving to judge them.
What happens now
The rule for this preview stays the same — 20 downloads by about November 14, or stop building the full book. The clock keeps running, and I will post the final verdict when it runs out, whatever the number is. If the number moves before then, I will say so; if it does not, the verdict is already written in these six flat days.
The next decision is also already visible, and it is not about this book. If all three trials end flat, the fix is not another product in the same channel. It is a different way of reaching people, or a channel where the audience already is.
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