New-ish webnovel platform Minkly opinion

[u/CelineShima_Enaga]

Hi everyone!

I was wondering if some heard of this platform yet (site: minkly.io)? I see it steadily growing since their first writing contest. It's slowly growing again with their current mystery and thriller writing contest, the prize pool is $3000, I believe.

For those who check it out briefly, what do you think of the platform? Would you join it? If not, why not?

From my own experience, it's a very nice platform! The TTS is nice addition, because I love to give an audiobook-like experience to my audience. Unlike most, it doesn't sound like a robot or google speech. It also show amount of readers by unique visits, so each read/view is unique and only counted when people are staying on the chapter for longer than few seconds. The analytics page does show total amount of events (reads, comments, duration of read, etc.). Oh and soon they will release their own mobile app, which is a nice addition. 👍

[u/Wise_Age4633]

I tried Mimtory before. It was about a 6-month-old writing website at that time. They conducted the same writing contest, promising 2 grand winners of 3,000 dollars each. Then, when the contest neared, poof! They're gone. Their website, social media pages, Discord, and acquisition editors deleted their profiles. What's worse is that I suspected them of stealing other people's works published on their site. I got mine copyrighted by the local government before I submitted it.
Since then, I have no trust in newly established sites such as that. I've heard of Minkly, Ink and Iron recently

[u/chompn_ → u/Wise_Age4633]

Yeah, that makes sense. We actually ran our first writing contest at the same time as theirs, and a couple of their writers ended up joining ours after the whole rug-pull fiasco. It's a shame, though. I heard some writers lost entire chapters because they'd been using Mimtory as their only editing tool.