Show HN: App and Comics on Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Mary Anning

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by rlalwani • 7 years ago

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rlalwani4• 7 years ago

Hi all,

We spent last one year to create an app, Tinyview Comics Reader, and a comic series, IN SCIENCE WE TRUST, to tell stories of scientists like Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace and Mary Anning. Working with artists like Jack Richardson whose illustrations have appeared in publications like the Economist, and Andy Warner, the NY Times Best Selling author of Brief Histories of Everyday Objects and This Land is My Land. He is a contributing editor at The Nib and teaches cartooning at Stanford University.

These are our initial titles and we are learning a lot for future titles (adding a healthy dose of humor). I hope you enjoy them. Alan Turing and Mary Anning are FREE and first two chapters of Nikola Tesla are also FREE.

The app is easy to use and lets you read comics in vertically scrollable manner. We want it to be a platform for other comics too - so there is more content for users and more users and in-app purchase/subscription for content creators.

Please share any feedback. Thank you!

drivingmenuts2• 7 years ago

Why do you need an app to display an image? Your own website proves that a browser is all that’s necessary to display images in a vertical scroll.

You want to sell subscriptions? That tech already exists as well and can be platform-independent.

rlalwani4• 7 years ago

Being able to monetize for quality content is one of the main purposes of this experiment. For our content as well as other people's content in future. I don't understand why content creators have to give away the content for free and "beg" for donations on Patreon. We will allow them to combine the two. There in-app purchases help quite a bit even though we end up losing 10-25% to the app stores.

There are some other reasons related to user experience. We can do a bit more in an app than what we can do in a browser e.g. push notifications for new titles and more control over UI. Also, I feel people like apps because people like to put things in "buckets" mentally.

But you are right - if/when we get some traction, we will provide a full-fledged platform on the Web also. People can choose where they want to read. Thanks for your thoughts.

saadalem• 7 years ago

It's really good work !

rlalwani4• 7 years ago

Thank you. We got some feedback from readers (make them funny) which we are incorporating. We are working on 6 new titles starting with Archimedes.

Show HN: App and Comics on Nikola Tesla, Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Mary Anning

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