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Signed up and looking forwards to being sucked back into my reading habits.
It would be nice to change the time I receive the story. Is 10:00 relative to my time zone?
- side note on the site: I love the simplicity, but the text boxes for Name and Email are quite short
@mordzuber Right now it's all manual, so I send it out at 10AM EST. I've heard the scheduling question from a few people, and I'm looking into a solution.
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@msitver EST is fine for me, that's when I am on the way home from work. :)
You need to read more, and I want to help...
Programming is great, but reading fiction has value too. It's scientifically proven to make you happier + improve your writing skills. But reading (and finding what to read) can take time. :)
That's why I'm introducing a free, easy solution for hackers, Morning Short. Morning Short is an email digest that sends out one amazing short story at 10AM every morning. It's free and it's easy.
I hope y'all will check it out.
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@msitver for people like me that are ashamed of not reading any books, I subscribed instantly! Look forward to receive a first story!
@bentossell@msitver The "One Story" aspect is very important, because Morning Short is made for busy people. It's meant as an efficient way to read one great story a day. In the future I'd consider allowing people to opt for more than one story, but the default will always be one.
As for story types, it will mainly be standard short stories from well-known authors. I'm looking into doing theme days on the weekends (i.e Reader submission, 7-word stories, etc.). Thanks for adding us Ben!
@msitver I got the first story today, and wow. It was riveting, thought-provoking, and a bit saddening. It's a great idea for a newsletter (I write a few myself) and I'm looking forward to tomorrow's story. :)
@msitver Saw this tweet by @VioletaNedkova the other day and it immediately came to mind as possibly being helpful to you mentioned that reading is "scientifically proven to make you happier"
Looking forward to giving this a go, and happy being in Japan that it will likely be delivered at night, my usual fiction time.
p.s. Signing up with my kindle address, any idea if it will work?
I used to write a lot of short stories before I started getting busy with "serious" stuff. Because of being constantly engaged in the writing process, I used to read a lot of short stories, too. I've always wondered how I could regain that habit.
This seems like an interesting solution, but with my inbox already been flooded with the aforementioned "serious" stuff, I'm afraid getting daily stories isn't really going to help. My problem isn't finding short stories, it's finding the time and space to read them. To that end, have you considered perhaps breaking a story up into smaller chunks and sending those out over time instead of a brand new story every day?
Also, out of curiosity, how are you sourcing the stories and working with copyright issues?
Great initiative, all the same!
@alirtariq I'm still figuring out whether I can present the stories in a way that would be considered "fair use". For now, I'm sticking mainly to "public domain" stories, although I'm going by the international definition, which is a bit more inclusive. I also plan to reach out to noteable modern authors about sharing their works.
As for the "chunks" question, I considered it and decided against it. The point of this was for me (and you) to experience a variety of authors, and I felt that this was the best way to do that. I might still do something like that down the line. For example, Fitzgerald has some hybrid novella/short-stories that I could never reasonably expect someone busy to read in a day, but that are absolutely wonderful.
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Definitely will be checking this out. How "short" exactly are these shorts? Perhaps in terms of time-to-read? Any plans of allowing users to subscribe to specific categories in the future?
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Big fan of email newsletters and I'm looking forward to checking yours out. Might be nice to have a sample so people can know what kind of format to expect, as well as a better description of what type of short stories they are.
Also a minor comment: in the navbar, "Why To Join" sounds awkward.
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I guess your idea has a great potential, especially to those people who don't want to be overloaded with content and would like to read one story every day. Controlling the time and type of the story, maybe even different genre every day or something similar would be a good addition ;)
@romanzadyrako It's via email, so it works crossplatform! It is fiction only, although some of these stories are certainly informed by the lives of the authors, so in a way, it's almost all true ;)
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