Why We Built Bleepia: The Story Behind the App

Every great tool is usually built out of pure, unfiltered frustration. Bleepia is no different.

A few years ago, our founder walked into a bookstore and saw a massive display for the third book in a fantasy series they absolutely loved. The problem? The book had been out for four months.

How is it possible to be online every day, have an inbox full of promotional emails, and still completely miss the fact that your favorite author published the sequel you've been waiting three years for?

The answer is that the internet is too noisy. Social media algorithms only show you what is currently going viral, not what you actually care about. If you aren't obsessively refreshing an author's Twitter page, their launch announcement gets buried under a mountain of dancing videos and memes.

Newsletters aren't much better. You subscribe to a publisher's email list just to track one author, and suddenly you are getting three emails a week trying to sell you fifty different books you don't want.

We realized readers didn't need another social network, and they definitely didn't need another newsletter. They just needed a silent alarm clock.

That is what Bleepia is. It is a quiet, clean, incredibly simple tool. You search for your favorite authors, click subscribe, and then you close the app. We monitor the global publishing databases in the background. The exact day your author drops a new title, we tap you on the shoulder with a notification. That's it.

If you are tired of the book FOMO, join us. Create your free Bleepia account today and let us do the heavy lifting.