written.app
Written is a two-sided publishing platform for authors and readers. Authors self-publish for free, get paid instantly and earn up to 90% on each sale. Readers buy limited or unlimited editions and can resell them, with authors earning 20% on every resale. Readers pay by card, authors withdraw in regular currency, and the infrastructure behind it stays invisible.
I co-founded it and lead product end to end, and act as field CTO for architecture and vendor decisions. From zero to open beta in mid-2025; now 30k+ users, 18k+ authors and 4.5k+ books.
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- Shipped the open beta MVP: editions system, resale market, iOS and Android reading apps, author profiles and social feed, onboarding flows
- Lead a cross-functional team of 20+ and align the roadmap with 10–12 business stakeholders, prioritising with author interviews, product data and market-expansion impact
- Grew author sign-ups from ~10 to 1,000–2,000 a month together with marketing, including a redesign of author registration
- Built two AI agents: one automates cold outreach for marketing, the other reviews contest manuscripts for quality, integrity and story value
- Lead technical partnerships (Stripe, Coinflow, Turnkey, ElevenLabs), own the tech budget and run hiring and onboarding for the tech team