CurEightHow it works
A curation is a topic. A release is one issue of it.
Curators publish releases into a curation on a schedule they set. You subscribe to the curation, and its releases arrive on your Home page.
- Curation
- A topic someone publishes on, and the thing you subscribe to. It has a curator, a schedule and a price.
- Release
- One issue of a curation: six links, an editorial, and a TL;DR.
- Coverage
- How much of a topic's range your subscriptions draw from, counted by source and subtopic.
For readers
Reading on CurEight
- 01
Find a curation
Browse by topic or search for a subject. Search matches on meaning, so you can describe what you want in your own words.
- 02
Subscribe
Free curations are open to anyone with an account. Paid ones are a monthly subscription that goes to the curator, handled through Stripe.
- 03
Read the releases
New releases from everything you follow collect on your Home page, grouped by the day they published.
For curators
Publishing on CurEight
- 01
Start a curation
Pick a topic and a publishing schedule. A curation is the thing readers subscribe to; releases are the issues you publish into it.
- 02
Build a release
Add six article links. CurEight pulls in the title, source and reading time for each, then drafts the editorial and the TL;DR for you to edit.
- 03
Publish and get paid
Set a monthly price, keep it free, or run both. Payouts go through Stripe Connect to your own account.
Questions
Details worth knowing
- What does a release actually contain?
- Eight parts: six articles on one topic, one editorial from the curator on why they belong together, and one TL;DR covering the main points across the set.
- What does a subscription cost?
- Whatever the curator sets. Many curations are free. Paid ones are billed monthly through Stripe, and you can cancel from your subscriptions page at any time.
- Where does the AI come in?
- It drafts a first-pass editorial and TL;DR from the six links a curator adds, and it powers search by meaning. A curator edits the draft before anything publishes.
- What is Coverage?
- A per-topic count of how many distinct sources and subtopics your subscriptions draw from, measured against everything published on CurEight in that topic.