A social discovery engine
for your literary journey.
Notes from the founders on what we're building, and why.
On Building
WordSea is a social reading and literary discovery app, designed to help you access, explore, and organize the world's books — old and new, canonical and obscure — alongside 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, your curiosity, and your 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 Library
At the heart of WordSea is your personal library — a place to capture, preserve, and build, slowly, over years.
- 01Capture
- Books, excerpts, and ideas — gathered as you encounter them, not lost to the scroll.
- 02Preserve
- Annotations, reflections, and insights, kept in one enduring place that's yours.
- 03Build
- A collection that evolves with you, deepening as your reading and thinking grow.
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.
The Founders
WordSea was founded in 2023 by two brothers from Norway — Mikael and William Marleau — who share a lifelong passion for books and storytelling.
They build with care for the smallest details, and ambition for what literature can become online.
- Mikael
- Digital Business Development
- William
- Computer Science
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.