Other Work
In 2003, August established johnaugust.com as a repository for the 100+ screenwriting advice columns he had written for IMDb. The site now has over 1,500 posts and 31,000 approved comments.
He founded Quote-Unquote Apps in 2010, which develops software related to film and the film industry. Their releases include FDX Reader, an iOS application that displays Final Draft files; Less IMDb, a browser extension for Safari, Chrome, and Firefox that reorganizes the layout of IMDb pages; and Bronson Watermarker, an OSX watermarking application that supports multiple outputs.
In 2012, the Quote-Unquote team, along with Stu Maschwitz, developed Fountain, a simple markup syntax for screenplays. Later that year, Quote-Unquote released the first public beta of Highland, an OSX utility that converts screenplays between PDF, FDX, and Fountain formats, and works as a Fountain text editor.
August, along with fellow screenwriter Craig Mazin, also hosts Scriptnotes, a weekly podcast on the craft of screenwriting and the film industry.
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