Books start with people.
ThePeopleBook is a platform for writing books together.
Many experiences worth a book are scattered among different people, and a single person cannot write the complete book.
Here, people who care about the same subject form a team, each writes the part they know best, and together they complete the book.
Books start with people.
In an age when AI can generate fluent text almost instantly, experience tested in real life becomes more valuable, not less. ThePeopleBook helps people with lived practice find collaborators and turn the knowledge in their heads and hands into books others can understand, learn from, and carry forward.
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Most vlogging advice is the same list of tips, recycled over and over. The Receipts is built around honest channel teardowns from people who actually run them. Each vlogger opens up their channel and shows the parts most advice skips: the gear, the day-to-day workflow, the subscriber and view numbers, the video that finally took off, and the ones that quietly flopped. Each contributor breaks down one channel they actually run, whether it is a lifestyle, daily, or travel vlog. They explain what they film, who they film for, what they use to shoot and edit, how the channel grew from zero, what the numbers looked like, the biggest mistake they made, and what they would do differently if they started today. There is no theory here, and no growth hacks that only sound good in a course. If you film your own life and keep wondering why some videos land and others disappear, these are the stories you rarely get to read.
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[Problem to Solve] Most of what gets published about a game's release is either a launch announcement or marketing advice. The details other developers would find useful, the budget, the sales over time, the mistakes, are usually left out or kept private. [Unique Value] This book collects first-person write-ups from developers who released a game they built on their own, or close to it. Each chapter is written by one developer, about their own game. Where the developer is willing, the chapter includes the numbers that are usually left out. [What You'll Gain] A clearer picture of what releasing a small game involves: what the developer set out to make, how the release went, and what they would do differently. Some chapters include figures such as cost, sales, wishlists, and refunds; others stay with the story. The accounts are meant to be useful to compare your own work against.
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[Problem to Solve] The honest version of "how I got my first paying customers" is hard to find. What's online is mostly polished success stories or courses for sale. The parts that would actually help, the real numbers, the months nothing moved, the things that went wrong, usually stay private. [Unique Value] This is a collection of first-person accounts from people who did it themselves: built a small software product on their own and got it to its first paying customers. Each chapter is one founder, in their own words, with the numbers most write-ups leave out. No theory, no "10 steps to $10k MRR." [What You'll Gain] An honest look at what reaching first revenue actually takes, from the inside: what they built, what they charged, what worked, what didn't, and what they'd do differently. Not a formula to copy, but real accounts to learn from and measure yourself against.
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Current team: 1 members
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Current team: 1 members
From proposal to release
01
Submit a proposal and gather public support.
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After the proposal passes, recruitment opens and a team is formed.
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Set the outline, claim chapters, and complete the manuscript together.
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Review and revise chapter by chapter until the book meets release standards.
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The book goes live in the bookstore and the team receives a long-term revenue share.
Founding Programs
Founding Books · for books
0%
Platform service fee
Net sales revenue from these books goes entirely to their teams. The benefit is registered to the book itself and does not lapse when team members change.
Granted in order of release, until all places are taken.
Founding Members · for individuals
15%
Revenue share cap, set by contribution
Founding members receive 1% to 15% of net revenue from every book they take part in. The rate is set by contribution, paid out of the platform service fee, and does not reduce the team's share. Writers, editors, and contributors in any role may apply.
Applications are reviewed individually, until all places are taken.