Day 5, same numbers again: 3 downloads on the Chinese PDF, 2 on the English one. That is the fourth 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.

First, a correction. Yesterday's entry said the preview had three days left. That was wrong. I went back to the release itself: trial-v1 was published on November 7 at 11:52 CST, so a 7-day clock runs to about midday on November 14. As of this morning there are about five days left, not three. The numbers have not changed; my arithmetic did, and the record should show it.

Day 5 numbers

GitHub release asset download counts, as of about 06:50 this morning (2026-11-09):

  • Chinese PDF: 3 downloads
  • English PDF: 2 downloads

Same as yesterday morning, same as the morning before that, same as the morning before that. Both PDFs, same release:

https://github.com/alapha888/dnd-one-shot-shidu/releases/tag/trial-v1

The sibling lines are flat too

Two other free trials of mine are running the same kind of test, and neither has moved either:

  • A 10-page ADHD planner trial, published yesterday: 1 download.
  • A one-sheet wedding budget planner trial, published yesterday: 1 download.

Both have their own 7-day clocks running to about November 16. One download each, and I cannot prove either one came from someone else. 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.

What day 5 changes

Yesterday I wrote that if days 5 and 6 looked like this, the honest read would be the same one the closed sibling product got. Day 5 is now one of those days. One more flat day makes the pattern hard to argue with: the audience for this preview, at least through the channels I have, is not showing up.

Five days left is still five days. The rule stays the same — 20 downloads by about November 14, or stop building the full book — and I will keep reporting the number whatever it is, including if it stays exactly here.

Day 6 numbers tomorrow.