We're not thinking about this as a business right now. Just as a prototype and live experiment of building an app together. The idea is to see if we can build something that looks like the future of book and series publication!
Well it just depends on what's done with the prototype—another app could build it, or we standardize it so all apps can use it, or we build it ourselves as a coop for just this niche community here!!! This experiment is just a testing ground! What should the future of book publishing look like? Then we can focus on how we should build it.
I am a huge atproto fan ( @http://jakesimonds.com over there), was just at the conference last week! I also love http://standard.site and what people in the ecosystem are thinking about publishing. Our project is still a prototype and could in the future integrate with atproto for identity or potentially be refactored to align with http://standard.site. Main issue for our use-case, especially early on in our building, was atproto being 100% public by default. Especially when we were first starting, that was a hard thing to accept since that meant paywalls would be tricky. But excited to follow the coming work in atproto on private data
I thought you looked familiar, I was also in Vancouver!
Reading Elle's post yesterday, I figured private data would be a requirement. Hopefully Frazee was right and we'll see an early implementation this summer.
I'll be keeping an eye on your project, it looks very cool.
It's just a prototype right now. But that's the general idea: Identity should be interoperable/exportable. So should posts/books. How we accomplish that is up for debate! Epub is so far the only "standard" that is truly interoperable, so making it so that you can download your library as epubs is highest on our list!
This looks gorgeous!
Thank you!
As usual, UK timing is not great for the demo. If it can't be recorded for members, I'll have to try it another way.
It was impossible to avoid this time around. Jake is still in Malaysia and I'm in the US! But we'll record and I'll share the recording on Thursday!
Well done Elle and Jake! Exciting! I can see the appeal for a cohort of writers, for sure. How are you going about attracting readers?
We're not thinking about this as a business right now. Just as a prototype and live experiment of building an app together. The idea is to see if we can build something that looks like the future of book and series publication!
It would be amazing! Attracting readers as well as writers will be central to that. Wishing you every success and look forward to hearing more.
Well it just depends on what's done with the prototype—another app could build it, or we standardize it so all apps can use it, or we build it ourselves as a coop for just this niche community here!!! This experiment is just a testing ground! What should the future of book publishing look like? Then we can focus on how we should build it.
Love it! Can’t wait to see the demo
Connections in NS becoming products launched. I will be looking forward to check out the app
Yeah!!! So fun.
Really hope you built this on AT Protocol. 🤞
I am a huge atproto fan ( @http://jakesimonds.com over there), was just at the conference last week! I also love http://standard.site and what people in the ecosystem are thinking about publishing. Our project is still a prototype and could in the future integrate with atproto for identity or potentially be refactored to align with http://standard.site. Main issue for our use-case, especially early on in our building, was atproto being 100% public by default. Especially when we were first starting, that was a hard thing to accept since that meant paywalls would be tricky. But excited to follow the coming work in atproto on private data
I thought you looked familiar, I was also in Vancouver!
Reading Elle's post yesterday, I figured private data would be a requirement. Hopefully Frazee was right and we'll see an early implementation this summer.
I'll be keeping an eye on your project, it looks very cool.
Oh no way!! That's amazing.
Thanks! Yeah ditto private data could unlock so much in the atproto world, I have my fingers crossed as well
It's just a prototype right now. But that's the general idea: Identity should be interoperable/exportable. So should posts/books. How we accomplish that is up for debate! Epub is so far the only "standard" that is truly interoperable, so making it so that you can download your library as epubs is highest on our list!