scroll kit

Announcing

Scroll

Today I'm thrilled to crawl out of the hole my co-founder and I have been working in and announce the beta version of a new publishing tool called Scroll. The elevator pitch is that Scroll helps you make magazine style layouts for the web and iPad without needing to know how to code. There are many features and ideas embedded into this application that make it unlike any editor out there and instead of going into each of them I'm going to continually update this page with links to work people have made.

I'll start with something small. A reporter from BetaBeat stopped by our office recently and to demonstrate the application, I laid out a feature story she wrote for the New York Observer in Scroll. It took me about 5 minutes to make and you can check it out here. You can look at how I made it in the raw screen recording below.

Untitled from Cody Brown on Vimeo.

The UI in the video is rough and there are certainly bugs to clear but the bigger pieces are there. Scroll is possible only because of HTML 5 , Chrome, and a hell of a lot of javascript but in some sense you could think of it as enabling an older kind of publishing. When you work in print and you're putting together an article, you start with a blank page and you start dropping text and visuals until it works. The same is true here.

We're looking for people to break it in, request an invite.

If you'd like to get in touch: hey@scrollmkr.com