Ghost Knowledge

Knowledge from the people who don’t normally write online

40 followers

Knowledge from the people who don’t normally write online

40 followers

•

•

A better way to fund knowledge. 1. You suggest ideas for essays you'd want to read from authors that don't normally publish. 2. You pledge $ to support the suggestions you like. 3. We collect payment and coordinate with authors to make the magic happen ✨

Free

Launch tags:Writing•Crowdfunding•Tech

Launch Team

Context.devOne API to scrape, enrich, and extract the internet

Promoted

The Modern Billboard Collective

Maker

Hi all, I’m Sari – currently building startupy.world and using the expanded real estate in my brain after leaving my consulting gigs to launch cool, values-aligned Internet experiments. Ghost Knowledge is the first one, and it launches today. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Why this? The majority of business writing that exists on the Internet comes from people in the business of commenting, complaining, and hot takes. NOT from people in the business of making, creating, or fixing things. We need a new model for funding “ghost knowledge” – knowledge that exists within expert and maker communities but is never written or documented. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- How does it work? 1. You suggest ideas for essays you'd want to read from authors that don't normally publish. 2. You pledge $ to support the suggestions you like. 3. We collect payment and coordinate with authors to make the magic happen ✨. Oh, and if you're the original requester of the essay you get 10% of the proceeds of the crowdfund – a fun experiment in shared upside :) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you’re feeling the vibe, here’s how you can help: Visit ghostknowledge.com and request an essay, pledge $ to support other people’s requests, or share the experiment on Twitter -- maybe your audience wants to fund a piece from you! And most importantly, tell me what you think in the comments below. A million times, thank you! Sari

Report

5yr ago

@sariazout this is brilliant! As someone who enjoys technical/business writing but isn’t exactly prolific, I feel like this was made for me. Excited to see it take shape!

Report

5yr ago

Nodestory

Very cool form of patronage for publishing without all the fuss of crypto UX. Congrats @sariazout and the team! 🚀🎉

Report

5yr ago

The Modern Billboard Collective

Maker

@prakharshivam thanks so much!

Report

5yr ago

Label Studio

Big, big fan of anything that gets more people into creating, fresh ideas to the table, and payment for all of them -- kudos @sariazout on the PH launch!

Report

5yr ago

The Modern Billboard Collective

Maker

@erinmikail thanks so much for your support today and always!

Report

5yr ago

Etsy

I've long believed that the people who should be out there writing are actually too busy doing (what they should be writing about 😵‍💫). Would love to see progress on this! Cool idea and forever love your newsletter @sariazout

Report

5yr ago

The Modern Billboard Collective

Maker

@nickeyskarstad thank you for your support and enthusiasm! forever grateful

Report

5yr ago

The Guide to Product Hunt Loom Videos

This is such a dope idea. The best ideas come from the edges and the fringes and this project will help explore those areas

Report

5yr ago

The Modern Billboard Collective

Maker

thanks so much @cahouser for your support today and always!

Report

5yr ago

This is incredibly unique. Ghost knowledge might be the key to collect and find unknown and rare knowledge out there.

Report

5yr ago

Dropbox DocSend

This is such a great idea, Sari! Bringing the curious and the knowledgeable together on Ghost Knowledge is gonna help so many people learn from untapped wisdom shared by people that rarely share it. Excited to see this grow! 👏

Report

5yr ago

1 2 3

•••

Reviews