Lightbox Collective · Tyler, Texas · Partnership Concept
An author's podcast is on Spotify, their videos are on YouTube, their social content is on Instagram, and their courses are on another website. This app brings all of it together in one place and gives readers one home for everything.
Concept
The Author App
Partner
Lightbox Collective
Studio
110-A Erwin, Tyler
First move
One title
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A reader who finishes the book goes looking for more from the author, and what they find is scattered across five different platforms. This app puts everything in one place, and we produce new content to fill it.
Five platforms, five audiences, and no single place that ties them together.
Everything, in one app.
The last page of the book invites the reader into the app. Here's what a reader does inside.
She opens the app and it feels like the author's own space. Something new is already waiting for her.
→ Home screenThe masterclass picks up where the book left off, in the author's own voice.
→ Courses screenShe asks a question. The author answers. Two other readers welcome her in.
→ Community screenShe can see her streak and her progress, and she knows the people here. By month four the app is part of her week.
→ You screenThis design didn't start finished. We wireframed the structure first, drew a full concept around it, and then built the screens you're about to see.
1 · Wireframe
Where it started: boxes and structure, before any design.
2 · First design
The first full concept, drawn so we could react to something real.
3 · The app today
The same screen as it looks now, in the app's own style.
Home shows what's new, Courses holds the masterclasses, Listen plays the audiobook and the podcast, Community is where people talk, and You tracks progress. Every screen is live, so scroll around.
HomeArrive
CoursesLearn
ListenAnywhere
CommunityBelong
YouStay
You supply the authors and share in every subscription. We build each author their own app, offer it to them as a monthly membership, and handle everything it takes to run it.
Ave Maria Press
Brings the authors
Lightbox Collective
Films, edits, and runs the app
The author's app
A monthly membership
Each of your authors can have their own app. The author pays a monthly membership, and Ave Maria shares in every subscription.
We build the platform, film the content, edit everything, and run the app day to day.
The filming happens at our Tyler studio at a discounted rate for Ave Maria Press.
Four phases, and we can stop after any of them.
Phase 01
Someone who's comfortable on camera, with readers already asking for more.
You bring
The author and their catalog.
Phase 02
We get the podcast, the masterclasses, and the short-form content in one visit. The author just shows up and talks.
We bring
Studio, crew, direction, post.
Phase 03
We edit everything, upload it, and the membership goes live.
Shared
A split of every subscription.
Phase 04
We go through the subscriptions and activity with you and let the results make the call.
Decision point
Expand, adjust, or stop.
Give us two days with one author, and we'll put everything they make into one app their readers can join. Tell us which author you'd start with.
admin@lightboxcollective.coLightbox Collective · 110-A Erwin, Tyler, Texas · Concept, placeholder content throughout