She was offline for ten years. She came back and built an anti-piracy platform for authors.
Indie author and solo dev Jules Mourne on thing.pub — a free platform for sharing manuscripts without feeding them to AI.
Jules walks us through how thing.pub actually works: device fingerprinting, watermarks embedded so they survive being run through a model, a kill switch for anyone poking at the dev console, and a reputation system that holds readers and authors to the same deal. She explains why it will always be free, why every server cost will be public, and why she won't take sponsorships from anyone large enough to attach strings. Plus what's broken about traditional publishing, the tabletop horror campaigns that fed her writing, and the cyberpunk novel she's building around social media as the antagonist.
JULES MOURNE
thing.pub — sign up and volunteer survey: https://thing.pub
Threads: @jules.mourne
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