I built City Pixels because writers have a discovery problem. Most platforms make discovery depend on feeds, follower counts, trends, or algorithms that quickly bury yesterday’s work. Writers can spend hours promoting something that effectively disappears within a day. City Pixels approaches discovery differently: geography. Writers can connect their books, stories, and profiles to the cities that genuinely matter to them — where they’re from, where they live, or where their work takes place. Readers can then discover writers and stories through places, genres, bookshelves, and other lasting discovery paths instead of relying only on a constantly moving feed. The goal is simple: make a writer’s effort keep working for them. City Pixels is still early, still growing, and still being shaped by real writers using it. I’m building toward something much larger than another place to post stories — I want to build lasting discovery infrastructure for writers. If you’re a writer, reader, publisher, bookseller, librarian, or just someone interested in how creative work gets discovered, I’d love for you to take a look and tell me what you think.

City Pixels by Side Eye Tom

Discover writers, books, and stories through real places.

Discover writers, books, and stories through real places.