Hooked 2.0

Tell a story through text messages

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Tell a story through text messages

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Hooked 2.0

Maker

Thanks so much for the hunt! Our mission with Hooked is to make reading and writing as easy as texting your friends. We've designed our new in-app writing tool to kill writer's block once and for all! Writing can be overwhelming. But with Hooked, all you have to do is write your story one message a time. You can create characters to tell different parts of your story, and you can incorporate images and video as well. You'll be amazed at how well you can write when you just take it a message at a time. Hooked is designed for narrative, and we've found that almost any piece of information is best conveyed through a good story. Everyone has a story to tell. We hope people will use Hooked to tell the stories of their lives, write articles, conduct interviews and teach interesting things to others. Let me know of any feedback you have, on either the writing or reading experience! We are working hard to improve the product everyday and would love the community's input. Happy writing! But beware...you might just get hooked ;) H0_0t h0_0t!

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@bentossell you read our minds :) collaborative writing coming soon! this version is focused on solo writers, but we have something in works that will address this very use case. thanks for the feedback!

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

Love that you're creating a new format for storytelling, @prernagupta. Shower thought you may have already explored: what if you offered serialized stories delivered like actual text messages, once every 10-60 minutes throughout one's day? It might be distracting but I can imagine it being a fun and more immersive way to read Hooked content.

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@rrhoover thank you!! honored to have you say so :) That is an awesome idea and definitely something we're exploring, along with interactive fiction! Totally with you :)

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10yr ago

Product Hunt

@prernagupta CHOOSE YOUR OWN (HOOKED) ADVENTURE! Looking forward to it. 😊

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10yr ago

Carpool VC - S2E3, Prerna Gupta, Founder/CEO of Hooked

Hunter

Super pumped for this new release! Love the ability to create my own content. Excited to read stories generated by the community. @prernagupta, what are your thoughts on using the Hooked platform for non-fiction? *disclaimer: investor in Hooked...

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@jtriest Hooked is really fun for non-fiction content as well! Our belief is that almost any piece of information is best conveyed through a good narrative. Narrative helps your audience stay engaged. Also, the bite-sized nature of the Hooked format forces you, as the writer, to cut out the fat and stick to the important points. We use Hooked for our quarterly investor updates, and everyone loves it! Some other non-fiction ideas for Hooked: interviews, recipes, fashion blogs, socratic dialogue, career advice...the list goes on :)

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10yr ago

Loved hooked 1.0, and excited about the diversity of stories, interviews, and content to come by opening up the creation platform. What's been the most popular category so far??

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@joanneyuanyuan thank you! Excited to read one of your stories soon :) Our most popular categories are thriller, romance and sci-fi! We have a really popular series in the app called "Dead of Night", which is one of my personal favorites thus far.

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10yr ago

Shred Video for iOS

Such a great idea. Writing a complete story from scratch always seemed overwhelming. One text at a time? That I can do. Excited to give this a try!

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@michaeldouble thank you! that's our goal! We hope the "one message at a time" interface will make writing more accessible, and less overwhelming.

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10yr ago

Arbor

Dig this product and love the constant improvement. @prernagupta I'm curious what demographic is most engaged with Hooked?

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@abe_storey thanks so much, that's great to hear! the core demo thus far has been female ages 13-30, which was always our hope since this is the demo that drives fiction in the U.S. :)

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10yr ago

Arbor

@prernagupta awesome! That's what I figured too and it's always nice to validate your customer segment hypothesis. 😄

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@abe_storey good instinct! =)

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10yr ago

Carpool VC - S2E3, Prerna Gupta, Founder/CEO of Hooked

@prernagupta Any insight in to why you chose reading/writing at the first content vertical over audio or video?

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10yr ago

Hooked 2.0

Maker

@brettdem great question! We believe text is a powerful medium for communicating thoughts and experiences. It's the purest form of storytelling, and allows you to use your imagination and put your own experiences and vision into the story. We believe there is a massive opportunity in making the written word easier to read and write. But we do support photo and video content as well :) Hooked is about creating great stories in text message format, which includes anything you can send in a messenger. Ultimately, we believe that a great story resonates across all mediums, but it makes sense to create it in text first, and then invest in developing it into more visual formats once your story has traction. For example, we took one of our most popular text stories, "Past Perfect", and turned it into a video story, as a reenactment. Search for "Past Perfect (reenactment)" in Hooked and check it out. It's pretty fun :)

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10yr ago

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