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About Literary Universe

Literary Universe is designed for both writers and avid readers. Writers can use the platform to create original works by selecting the "Workshop" button in the dashboard menu. This provides access to the main editor and encyclopedia functions, which focus on organizing all aspects of your personal story universe on a single page. The social features allow authors to share their work, build a following, and interact more directly with their readers if they choose.

Readers can use the site primarily to discover new works and follow their favorite authors, but they can also help edit pre-published stories if granted permission by the writer. Being a reader on Literary Universe offers a whole new reading experience—having access to all the background information on the same page as the main story provides insight into the author’s mind like never before.

The future of Literary Universe includes creating a marketplace where authors can sell their work and adding community features to enhance communication between authors and readers through blogs and forums. We plan to introduce additional writer’s tools over time, with more than a dozen currently in development or planned. Our ultimate goal is to enrich the experiences of both writers and readers by leveraging the internet medium in innovative ways.

We hope that you join us as we explore what the internet medium can do for creative writing!

The team

Jan Dvořák

Jan Dvořák

Chief Executive Officer

jdvorak@literaryuniverse.com

Jan is the founder, visionary, and technological mind behind Literary Universe. As a writer of expansive literary universes, Jan often struggled to write stories in a way that balanced technical precision with readability, without compromising the reader's experience. This challenge led him to pursue studies in web development, with the goal of creating an application that simplifies the process of writing stories within large universes.

Pavel Jakubec

Pavel Jakubec

Head of Research

pjakubec@literaryuniverse.com

Web3, the Metaverse, AI, and any emerging technology—Pavel explores it all to see how it can enhance Literary Universe. As a true multidisciplinary researcher, Pavel has insights into many fields and works on integrating new and exciting features into the platform.

Hendry Sconovianus

Hendry Sconovianus

Lead designer

hendry@literaryuniverse.com

Hendry is a designer with more than 15 years experience. He's been working in agency since 2010, his client such as PERTAMINA, VOA, and Ministry tourism of Indonesia. Experienced in Branding, layout and also UI/UX he feels challenged to design Literary Universe.

History

In 2010, Jan began his studies at the Rochester Institute of Technology to deepen his knowledge of web development, with the goal of building a creative writing platform. This vision took shape in 2013 when the first proof of concept was presented at Imagine RIT. Jan continued his studies, and in 2016, a new version of the app was created as his Master's Capstone Project. The project continued to evolve throughout the fall of 2016, eventually developing into the platform you see today.

Attributions

Literary Universe builds on top of many Open Source projects and free resources. Bellow you will find their listing.

Our analytics use self-hosted Matomo with IP2Location LITE data available from https://lite.ip2location.com.


Tento projekt byl částečně realizován za finanční podpory programu Technologická inkubace.

The company

Czechia

Literary Universe s.r.o.

IČ: 17397758

Barrandovská 158/14 Prague, 152 00