About WordSea
Our Vision
To build a social discovery engine for your literary journey.
What We're Building
WordSea is a social reading and literary discovery app designed to help you access, explore, and organize humanity's literary commons — along with your own insights — in one enduring place.
In a world of noisy feeds and fragmented platforms, WordSea brings literature to you on your terms, shaped by your interests, curiosity, and intellectual path.
A Home for Literature
Today, meaningful literature is scattered across platforms, algorithms, and timelines that weren't built for depth. Finding excerpts from the classics, forgotten works, or thoughtful discussions often means searching through noise.
WordSea changes that.
We believe everything of literary value — from timeless passages and emotionally resonant stories to obscure, long-forgotten works — should come to you naturally, based on what you care about, not what trends. Literature shouldn't disappear in feeds; it should accumulate, connect, and grow with you.
Your Personal Literary Library
At the heart of WordSea is your personal library. Here, you can:
Capture
Capture and organize books, excerpts, and ideas
Preserve
Preserve your annotations, reflections, and insights
Build
Build a collection that evolves with you over time
Your library isn't static. It's a living record of your literary journey — one that deepens as your interests change and your understanding grows.
Our Team
WordSea was founded in 2023 by two brothers — Mikael and William Marleau — from Norway, who share a lifelong passion for books and storytelling.
Coming from digital business development and computer science, they build with care for the smallest details — and ambition for what literature can become online.
Join Us
We're building WordSea for people who believe books still matter — and that technology can bring readers closer, not further apart.
If you care deeply about craft, ideas, and building products with purpose, you'll feel at home here. We're a small, focused team working hands-on across product, design, and engineering, with real ownership and room to shape what WordSea becomes.
This is an early journey. That means responsibility, learning, and impact from day one.
If you want to help define the future of social reading, we'd love to build it together.