Founder Updates
Building Epigramm in public — from concept to launch
The 7 Types of Readers (And Why Every Reading App Ignores at Least Six of Them)
You open a new reading app with cautious optimism, then realize it's exactly like the last five. You download it with cautious optimism, but then you realize it's doing the exact same thing as the last five apps you tried: counting books completed, nudging you toward reading streaks, assuming you want to broadcast what you're reading to everyone you know. The app isn't broken. It just wasn't built for you...
See the full update →The Lie of the Annual Reading Goal
Every January, reading goals return with the punctuality of gym memberships and meal prep containers. Twenty books. Fifty books. One hundred books. They feel harmless, even virtuous. The problem isn't the desire to read more. The problem is what happens when reading gets compressed into a single number tied to a calendar year, as if the thing that matters most about reading is how much of it you can complete before December 31st...
See the full update →You're Not a Slow Reader. You're Just Reading Like a Human.
"I'm such a slow reader," people say, laughing a little, like they're confessing to a character flaw. But what we call "slow reading" is usually just reading that's responsive to reality. Your brain on a Tuesday morning after decent sleep is not your brain on a Friday evening after eight hours of meetings. The same person who tears through a romance novel in an afternoon can spend three weeks on thirty pages of theory. None of this is inconsistency. It's being human...
See the full update →Start Here: What This Is Really About
Reading is one of the most intellectually demanding things people do regularly, and almost no software treats it that way. We build dashboards for nearly every activity that shapes our days, but reading—which often consumes five to ten hours a week for people who take it seriously—gets a list of finished books and a vague sense of having read more or less than last year. That gap isn't accidental...
See the full update →What We've Been Quietly Building Inside Epigramm
Reading shapes how people think, but there's never been a good way to organize and track that reading inside a reading app. Most reading apps treat reading as vibes, not data. So we decided to build the reading data layer that tracks reading the same way people track workouts or sleep. This month's update covers our new crash-reporting system, expanded metadata customization, and reading experience improvements...
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