Happy New Year from Storya!

So here it is. We are (almost) one year old, since we launched our first app store version in mid February last year.

Few months before that, Storya.app was just an idea in the mind of a cabin-feverish ex-journalist sitting out the #pandemic in a study room at a new home in Singapore, months after relocating from Hong Kong.

Between freelance editing, #writing gigs, and procrastinating the writing of my next novel, the idea for Storya started coalescing. This was also in no small part thanks to the awesome experience of running the small #publishing consultancy WordRevo with my old friend, amazing author and writing mentor Pascal Abatiello.

Fast forward to the start of 2023 and Storya is so much more:

- A #team of hyper-talented global and #diverse individuals from publishing, creator economy, product, marketing, and software industries in six time zones, three continents

- A #product that, incredibly for the available budget, is at the cutting edge of creative publishing softwares and will increasingly become so as we expand our suite of #AI and #blockchain capabilities

- A #vision that starts from helping disadvantaged creative voices in the emerging markets, giving them the tools to succeed globally, making us a unique project not just in publishing but in the entire creator economy

- The #community: 10,000 people follow us across social media. A third of them are users of our app. Nearly 1,000 are writers from more than a dozen native languages and located worldwide.

But most importantly, the #people, starting with our early investors and advisors who continue to believe in who we are and what we are building.

What do we believe in?

Storya is about giving power to anyone to tell their story, believing in the power of storytelling to change the world for the better, and build bridges across people and culture. Here is to an amazing 2023. And Go Team Storya!