I worked on a reading app and the hardware prototype of a reading device. The device is currently under waitlist-ordering.

Why did I build this? We live on devices built to interrupt us. We open your phone to read one good article, or a quick whatsapp message, and within seconds you’re pulled into messages, feeds, alerts, and tabs. Even when the content is good, the experience isn’t. Modern reading feels fragmented, noisy, and exhausting.

This is especially painful, if you, like me, are a bookworm and love reading.

That’s why I built Reed. At its core, it’s meant to be a distraction-resistant reading experience: a simple app that gathers the things you actually want to read, and a hardware companion that turns your phone into a more focused e-ink reader. Reed also turns scattered reading material across various apps and types of content, into a single queue you can return to. When you sit down for a few minutes, there’s always something ready.

AI-enabled features are coming, but in the meantime, I released Reed on March 2nd, to coincide with Reading Month! In a world full of distracted reading and endless discovery without depth, Reed’s pitch is refreshingly simple: less scrolling, less searching, more actual reading.