Issue No. 001 / Pre-Launch A Bulletin Board for Stories

The community
that creates the next
generation of
visual storytelling.

From the Founder

Every great story deserves a screen. Most never get one. We're fixing the math.

Narrathon is a community-powered platform where untapped narrative IP becomes vertical drama series at near-zero production cost. Writers post the work no studio has touched. Generative AI artists adapt it. Audiences decide which adaptation wins. Everyone shares the upside.

The Thesis

A new operating model for vertical drama.

The vertical drama category is a fourteen billion dollar market growing toward forty by 2030. The top three platforms run staffed writers' rooms churning out trope velocity. They cannot, by their own economics, touch the world's largest body of unproduced premium narrative.

That corpus, self-published novels, Black-List screenplays, longform journalism, Wattpad fiction, sits dormant because licensing it one-by-one at studio rates never penciled. Narrathon's legal architecture and community production model make it accessible at a fraction of the cost.

We are not building a content library. We are building a flywheel.

One platform. Three sides. A single loop.

If you have stories no one has produced, the skill to bring them to life, or the appetite to watch them, you belong here.

From bulletin board to binge.

A writer posts.

Story goes to the bulletin board with clean, non-exclusive terms drafted by our Yorn Levine partners.

Artists claim it.

One IP, many interpretations. Each artist builds their adaptation. Multiple takes ship in parallel.

Audiences vote.

First fifteen minutes are free. Then viewers pay per episode or subscribe. Watch time and upvotes set the leaderboard.

A purse pays out.

Every month, the top adaptation earns a cash prize. Split between the IP owner and the winning artist.

$14B
Global vertical drama category, year four of an eight-year curve.
Sensor Tower / Media Partners Asia, 2025
115%
Short drama in-app revenue growth, year over year.
Sensor Tower, 2025
$940M+
Lifetime in-app revenue between ReelShort and DramaBox. Validation, with a ceiling.
App store estimates, 2025