Bookyco

Project at a glance

Bookyco is the proofreading committee in the digital era — connecting authors and readers before a book enters the publishing stage.

Context

The book market faces many barriers to entry, especially with publishing houses inundated by manuscripts they can’t read, and which prefer to rely on existing networks of authors or to commission books on subjects where they’ve identified market demand.

The only two real innovations have been e-books, or using influencers to sell books guaranteed to move because of the author’s fame. With COVID-19, many people took up writing and would like a chance to be published.

Process

This started as a final project for my Product Manager diploma at OpenClassrooms. I got the chance to interview users, test hypotheses, and learn from their feedback to build a product authors would actually use.

Tech stack

• Webflow, then Next.js
• Airtable, Typeform