ZinUp turns a publisher's back catalogue into a searchable archive their readers can use. The archive is the product every customer buys. The reader is an optional layer on top. There is no launch date. We ship when the two numbers below are right.
What a publisher shows their readers, and what they use themselves. Judged by whether it is good, not whether it works.
Turning a publisher's PDFs into clean articles with no human touching them. This is what we actually sell.
| The thing | Where it is | Where it needs to be |
|---|---|---|
| Magazines converting unaided | 1 of 10 | 9 of 10 |
| Issues visible in the archive | 1 of 13 | 13 of 13 |
| Test data on a customer's shelf | 2 entries | 0 |
| Reader layout | Done, desktop and phone | Holds after your review |
| Your design verdict | Not yet given | A list I can work from |
There is no date driving this. 21 September is when a commercial hire starts — not a launch, not a deadline. I anchored an earlier version of this page to it, which was wrong and is the second time I have made that mistake. Our own goal document has been corrected so it stops producing it.
Nothing is unbuilt. Every feature the launch gate asked for has been live since June. What is missing is that the engine is not yet reliable enough to sell, and the archive — the part every customer pays for — is showing a fraction of itself. Those two things are the whole job.
The one thing I need from you is the design and layout list you offered. I can find things that are broken. I cannot reliably tell you when something merely looks bad, and this week proved it — I shipped a zoom bar onto a phone and checked only that it worked.