Readup is a free & open-source social reading platform, built for reading, sharing and discovering articles on the web.

Readup encourages deep reading by clearing away clutter and tracking every line you read. It facilitates civilized discussions by requiring readers to complete an article before they can comment on it, and every day, it also lists the most-read and most-loved articles of the moment in the “Article of the Day” competition.

If you’re a completionist, you’ll want to chase that 100% read mark on many interesting articles!

Check out Readup’s AOTD History, or my own Readup profile at readup.org/@thorgalle

Readup was built by Jeff Camera and Bill Loundy, starting in 2016. I learned about Readup in late 2019, and became an avid reader on the platform.

At the end of 2020, I helped the team by creating a new marketing page for Readup with Tarunika Ravichandran. In June 2021, I joined the business behind Readup full-time, when Readup was just launching a reader-writer marketplace. I lead the design and front-end product development for six months. In the end of 2021 however, the business ran out of funds, and we hadn’t been able to secure an investment.

Fortunately, this wasn’t the end of Readup. Over the ensuing months, Readup evolved into a fully volunteer-driven, open-source effort, and I continued as a maintainer.

More recently, in 2023/2024, I’ve started the very first non-readup.org instance (koffiecouques.be) and a Docker Compose recipe for launching your own Readup instance (Readup AIO).

I’ve also built an alternative Readup web app compatible with the browser of old Kindle devices; Readup Ink.