You'll need to be on the paid plan to do this, but next week we'll be releasing a free version so you can upload your own audio narration.
If you have questions or suggestions, please get in touch with us.
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Today, we're releasing a major update to the platform a lot of changes. Some you might have seen already with some early releases, and some completely new today.
We want to make Unalike as accessible as possible, whilst building a business that can support creators and publishers of every level. With our new basic pricing at €17 per month, we're hoping to give all creators an opportunity to expand their content and audience, with low price video and audio publications.
Our pricing is also free as standard from the start, so now more billing sign up. If you want upgrade, go to your publication settings and then billing.
Unlike other content management systems, we deal with the video and audio hosting ourselves, this includes the conversion, hosting, and streaming to your audience, however big that audience is. Because of this, we have to charge a small amount for processing, hosting, and streaming.
That doesn't stop you adding YouTube videos though, which you can add on any free content post. Just copy the YouTube URL and paste it into the media field at the top of a media article. If though, you want to see your videos to your audience with exclusive membership subscriptions, you'll need to be on the paid plan to upload those videos or audio.
Why would anyone want to publish just to themselves?! Exactly. We thought about it, and we've completely changed the way this works. You can now publish privately to a unique public URL that only you and anyone you share it with can access.
It won't get listed on your home page, or any other list, but it will be public. Anyone accessing it can access it without subscribing. This is good if you want to send content out to a select number of people outside of your subscriber list, or maybe you want to preview it before it goes out publically. You can always modify the access level later on if you want to make it fully public or for subscribers only.
Part of our overall look and feel overhaul, we've simplified the content list a bit. We're playing with the idea of filters and making this completely customisable for you, but for now, we want to make it clear exactly what's been worked on and what's published.
We wanted to make it easier for the community to reach out to us with questions and feedback, so now you can now message us directly. We've added a messaging tool, which you should see on the bottom right corner of the editor.
We're only online during UK time between 9 am and 6 pm GMT, but if you message us anytime, we'll try and get back to you as soon as we can.
And we save the best for last. Not only can you now create subscription-based content, but can also now charge for single pieces of content.
This is great if for example if you want to sell a video or live session (coming this week). You might want to create a long-form single story or written piece or upload an audio-based book. With these new purchasing services, we're hoping to give content creators and publishers new and exciting pays to sell their content and ideas.
Pricing comes in GBP, USD, and our default currency EUR, with all the exchange and payment conversions happening our side, so you don't need to worry.
There's a bit more work to on this with the subscriptions side, which will be released this week, with complete flexibility with pricing that works for you and your audience.
We've also introduced a lot of smaller updated and refinements along the way. Mostly performance and bugs, but also security and UX. Making everything work smoothly and securely.
We believe we have one of the best browser-based content editors out there at the moment, with a focus on writing and simplified media, so these small changes will make it even better.
There's always room for improvement, but with every improvement, it has to be for the right reasons. A lot of products tend to move towards complexity with growth, whereas we believe in simplicity from the start of an idea. Gradual and incremental changes that feel natural, without adding confusion.
With every change we make, we want to the experience for you to feel like it belongs like it just appeared without anyone noticing. You always knew how to use it, instead of having to write a tutorial on how to use the platform. Not built for tech people or marketing teams. Built for creators.
That was one of the founding ideas when we started creating Unalike, and it will continue, however large we get. We won't get it right all the time, so if things are not understandable as they should be, please let us know. We're always here to support you.
All that said, if you do have any questions, feedback or suggestions you'd like to add, please send them to hello@unalike.net, we'd love to hear from you.
Thank you!
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I wanted to take a different approach. A core product that focuses on simplicity, extendability, customisation, and accessibility. Those are massive elements if you break them down, but when done right, it should just work and people should just get it.
Although I haven't got a 100% right all of the time, and it's still beta, I hope the majority of Unalike feels natural and intuitive for creators and consumers.
So with these principles in mind and feedback rolling in, we're starting to build new and exciting features and redesign existing ones. Foremost, things need to work, and then we can build out complexity.
With our no tracking in mind, we wanted to build analytics that was simple, yet gave you content creators a rough idea of what was going on. A feature that's configurable too, so you don't have to see if you don't want to either, keeping your creation area clean from distraction.
And when we say simple, we mean SIMPLE! Literally numbers on a screen.
As we build out Unalike, we'll obviously continue to innovate on this and give creators more of say on what they can see and analyse, as long as it doesn't cross the line from anonymous information to individual reader tracking.
A lot of our early creator feedback has been around pricing and subscriptions, so we've set out a roadmap for this and this is the first part of these enhancements, making pricing more granular and customisable.
We've improved the subscription pricing tiers with the ability to add a few more options, from the low to high, with prices that should cater for most subscriptions.
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When I first started building Unalike, there were a few principles I wanted to build on that would make us different from the rest. Built on openness, transparency, and simplicity. No secret tracking, no advertising, and no likes. Just straight up creativity and content communities based on subscriptions, and telling you straight up how we make our money.
These are principles that I've felt passionately about since starting in technology, doing what's right. Building products that work for everyone, for our creators, and audiences.
We've all experienced it, we find an article that we want to read and suddenly we're bombarded with junk that coincidently matches our social media feed. Some useful, some not!
Wherever we go, whatever we browse, we're tracked and targeted by brands to sell us more. At its heart, it might actually be useful for some, but for others, it's an invasion we didn't ask for. An invasion that we should have expected, or maybe these companies could have been more open from the start.
We're not interested in selling you more if you don't want it. Sure, we'd love you to subscribe and consume creators content, but we don't need to track you to do that. We don't need to pop up and say hi or cross-sell publications. Instead, we'll let the content do the selling, and spend our marketing money on stuff that matters, helping independent creators publish their content.
Advertising was bad enough 15 years, and more recently its turned into a false economy, with advertising companies and big tech reaping the rewards. But at what cost?
Publishers have been left catching up on the whim of those who control the attention, with tittle choice but to use advertising that reality doesn't give them very much in return.
Subscription holds a different approach for creators. A way to build a loyal audience and give value back. Not free, but it's certainly more transparent and gives everyone value.
That said, we understand the need for advertising for many sites and publishers. It serves a purpose, we just feel that subscription gives readers and creators better value. Hopefully, with more platforms and creators shunning traditional digital advertising, we can get some true innovation too and a way for brands to reach audiences without the need to be annoying.
How do you know what we people like? Dislike? Is this what creativity has come to? The opinions of others.
Likes are a superficial metric for what people like and dislike. Creators end up chasing abstract engagement targets based on the tap of a heart. It negates creativity whilst allowing for fake followers and feeds of superficial content that repeats itself. Echo chambers of creativity you might say.
Likes served a purpose, but that purpose turned in on itself. We want to promote content that's unique and creative, untainted by the metric of a thumb or heart.
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A publishing platform that tries to solve some of the challenges facing writers, creators, and publishers today. A world that's been weighted towards advertisers and platforms for too long, and not the people who actually create.
It's been an enjoyable and mind-bending experience building this ambitious platform from scratch. And this I hope is the beginning of a long journey, not only providing a better way for writers and creators to publish, but also helping audience access accessible content.
Unalike is a content publishing platform designed for independent content creators and publishers to create and sell content.
The mission, to give control back to the creators and publishers, with tools that reimagine the way creators, publish, manage, and sell knowledge and creativity. With subscription and payments at its core, that allows creators to take full ownership and independence.
No advertising and no tracking. Reducing the friction of creative expression with a space free from the distractions of what others like and dislike, and instead, focus on ways to express your ideas and creativity. Everything from the application to reading experience has been designed with this mind. Opinionated towards simplicity. Unique in the way it looks, feels, and functions.
If you'd like to sign up, please go to www.unalike.net and start creating! Any feedback, suggestions, or questions, please email me at hello@unalike.net, I'd love to hear your thoughts.
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