Shōsetsuka ni Narō

Yusuke Umezaki began developing the website in October 2003, while in his third year in high school, and launched the website on April 2, 2004. Umezaki promoted the website on various internet forums, and, by 2008, the website had become too large for Umezaki to run by himself, so he asked friends from university to help. They founded the company Hina Project to operate the website in March 2010. The website's growth in popularity was linked to the cell phone novel boom and the print publication of The Irregular at Magic High School and Log Horizon in 2011.

Hina Project later launched Nocturne Novels and Midnight Novels as sister websites to Shōsetsuka ni Narō to publish novels for men with mature themes. Alongside Frontier Works, the website published the web magazine N-Star in 2017. In 2023, Hina Project launched Onaco, a website for posting adult illustrations that only accepts payments from bank transfers to circumvent financial censorship. Umezaki resigned from his position as representative director of Hina Project in 2024.