Who this is for
RowGress is an editorial site for the sober curious. It is for adults questioning the role of alcohol in their lives without having decided that alcohol is the problem. It exists because the gap between "I drink normally" and "I have a drinking problem" deserves better tools and better writing than it has been given.
The audience is not in formal recovery. The audience is not looking for a wellness brand to tell them how to feel. The audience is somewhere in the middle, paying attention, deciding what to do.
What this is not
RowGress is not a treatment program. It is not a substitute for professional help. It is not affiliated with Alcoholics Anonymous, SMART Recovery, or any other recovery framework, though it respects all of them.
It is not a wellness brand. It does not believe in the morning-routine genre, the supplement-stack discourse, or the notion that quitting drinking is primarily an aesthetic project. The visual restraint of this site is deliberate. The absence of stock photography is deliberate. The refusal to use the word "journey" more than necessary is deliberate.
It is not a community. There are no comments, no profiles, no forums. If you want a community, find one. RowGress is a publication.
How articles are written
Articles on RowGress are educational only. They describe what cessation research says, what lived experience reports, and what the relationship between the two looks like. They do not give medical advice. They acknowledge individual variation. They do not promise outcomes.
When research is cited, it is described accurately and unromantically. When personal experience is offered, it is labeled as personal experience. The line between the two is kept clean.
The voice tries to be direct and unpreachy. Adults are treated as adults.
How tools are built
The day counter is the first tool, and the simplest. Mark a start date, see your count, share a milestone. The count lives in your browser and in an anonymous database row that knows nothing about you except a random identifier.
There is no signup. There is no account. There is no advertising, and nothing you enter is ever sold. The site uses Google Analytics for aggregate, anonymous traffic measurement, and nothing else; the privacy policy says exactly what is collected, which is very little. Cross-reference it against any other tool you use that promises the same thing.
More tools are coming. Each one will follow the same constraint: do something useful, collect as little as possible, sell nothing.
Who is building this
RowGress is built by a small team of one. The site, the tools, the writing all come from the same person.
It exists because the gap it fills is real and the existing options for it are limited. There is no funding behind it. There is no investor pressure. There is no plan to monetize beyond a future addition of an educational supplement guide with FTC-compliant affiliate disclosure, which will be transparent and explicit when it launches.
Until then, everything is free, everything is open, and the only thing being built is a publication worth returning to.
Contact
Questions about the site, the writing, or the data practices: legal@rowgress.com.
Press, partnerships, or anything else: same address. Responses are not always fast, but they are always genuine.