Introducing Savv, a Great Place to Share Stories

Savv makes it easy for everyone to share and read stories, with a focus on a simple yet elegant experience

1st January 2023, 3:11 AM
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Our stories matter.

They enable us to share our experiences, pass on knowledge, news, entertainment and more.

We want to empower everyone to not only access the best stories but also share their own stories and stay connected to the people and perspectives that are of interest to them. This means creating experiences and tools that make storytelling easy, accessible, and rewarding to everyone involved.

This is why we’ve built Savv.

Savv is a place that lets you discover great stories, provides you with a world-class reading experience, and also includes simple yet powerful tools for you to share your own stories. We aim to create a platform where readers and writers can connect, share ideas and grow.

A place with quality reading and publishing experience

We strive to ensure that reading and publishing stories on Savv is a simple and elegant experience. We do this by creating well-designed, easy to use and functional tools and experiences that elevate the storytelling.

We’ve created a simple and clean reading interface. One that gets out of your way, allowing you to stay engrossed in the story that you are reading. You can also further adjust this interface, with controls to change things like your color theme, font size and more for a more comfortable reading experience.

Similarly, it is easy to edit and publish your own stories. Our editor and publisher are simple yet powerful, taking care of the little things, so you can focus on telling your story and trust that all else ‘just works’.

Powerful discovery, curation and organization

We also make it easy to find and organize the stories that you are interested in. This involves using a combination of algorithms and curation. Some of the features are:

  • Curated stories, collections and topics - the team handpicks some of the top quality creations on Savv, and elevates them to the top.

  • The discover page brings you the top stories, so you can always stay up to date with what is trending. You can also search for specific stories, people and more from here.

  • Your feed brings you a chronological timeline of updates from people, collections and topics you follow, so you can always stay up to speed with the channels you care about.

  • Topics provide a way for writers to match their stories to reader interests. You can also follow the topics you like, and get all the updates in your feed.

  • Public collections allow anyone to curate stories that can then be read by other people. You can also follow public collections, so you can stay up to speed with any new stories added.

  • The library page provides a single place where you can access all your stuff — people you follow, your subscriptions, collections, topics and more.

A place to get paid for your writing

We believe the best way to ensure continuing quality is to make sure the writers can get paid for the work they do. So we provide writers with avenues they can use to make money from their writing.

We are working on ways to enable writers offer direct subscriptions, ad-supported writing and sponsorships. We have already launched publications in beta, which provide a way to provide paid subscriptions.

Publications

Publication provide writers with a place to publish related stories together, collaborate with other writers and run subscriptions.

With paid subscriptions, writers can get paid directly by their readers. The writer gets to set their preferred monthly price, and chooses which stories get published into the publication.

Paid subscriptions have launched in preview, and if you are a writer interested in trying it out, reach out to us.

Tying it all together

Both the writer and reader features work hand-in-hand, resulting in a great place that makes it easier for people to discover and share stories.

We are working to bring even better features that will bring readers and writes closer, and make storytelling a great experience all around.

In case you run into problems, or have a suggestion for us, visit our contacts page and reach out.

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1st January 2023
3:11 AM
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8:40 AM
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