Merrative
Create, curate and discuss digital literature, together.
We have released a newly designed explore and reading rooms page as per our new redesign. The site is now expected to be easier to navigate, more room to filter posts as per topics and better discovery.
Rooms page looks more organized, hosting paid events is now made available!
We have redesigned our blog post page to showcase highlights, table of contents, newsletter signup, and read more articles section. Took a lot of time to find out amazing blog designs on the internet (surprisingly very few articles on google that worked for me!), while hardly took an hour to wrap it up on Bubble.
Check out a sample here:
We have integrated our community and marketplace messaging in our updated landing page, also optimised to reduce load time and Google page speed score (more work on that!).
Do share your feedback and how we can improve our design and copywriting to make it more clear. Also improve the page test scores :)
In order to earn revenues, we have launched an MVP of a managed marketplace model for publishing talent. We are curating the top 5% of the publishing talent across writing, editing, translations, podcasting, thought leadership, whitepapers, etc. We aim to become a virtual editorial team for authors, podcasters and brands.
Here, we used a simple Google Sheet + Google forms (for talent) and Whatsapp for business profile (client-side) to match people based on certain projects.
We have reached 2000+ signups on the main platform, while also reaching around 2500+ subscribers for our newsletter - ReadTreats!
We will be now exclusively focusing on having a revenue model by spinning off a managed marketplace from the community for the publishing industry.
I observed that people would hardly post and it was tough to get good quality content. I attended TED Circles and loved the concept of discussing TED talks around a few conversation starters.
Inspired by this initiative, I build the feature called reading rooms where I allowed people to host discussions on any literature.
Set up the concept of hosts, participants, discussion points, etc. This feature helped us increase our signups as I added these events on other platforms like Eventbrite, insider, Facebook events, etc.
This was the first product I built using Bubble - unprofessionally built with lots of bugs. I tested the concept with our beta users for feedback where the major response was that they hardly understood how to use the product. Sign up issues were present. Simple landing page that focused only on creating posts, sign up and profile.
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