Manuscript Sharing — your writing, anywhere you go

What if your dating profile could leave the app?

Your published manuscript on Anketta carries a share link and a QR code from the moment it goes live. They're yours to hand out — across a coffee table at a meetup, in a private DM, on a printed card slipped into someone's pocket. The person on the other end reads who you are before they ever swipe.

It's the small inversion the writing-first format always wanted: the introduction isn't a thing the app delivers. It's a thing you bring with you.

Where would you actually use the QR?

It's the kind of thing that feels right in a few specific moments.

• At a meetup. The conversation went somewhere unexpected. They want to read more — and you have something to give them that isn't a phone number.
• In a printed card. A small folded card you carry in your bag. Show the QR, let them scan, they read on the bus home.
• In a DM. Instead of the usual "I'm on Anketta, find me," send the link directly. They open the manuscript, not a profile screen.
• At a dinner party. A friend mentions they have a friend who'd "love" you. Instead of a setup over text, send the QR — let the friend's friend decide for themselves whether to reach out.

The shape changes by context. The link is the same.

What does someone see when they open your link?

Your manuscript, rendered the way you wrote it. The headings you chose, the paragraphs the way you ordered them, your first name and city. That's it.

If you want to see what that page looks like in the wild before you write your own, here's the founder's manuscript. Open it, read it — that's exactly the shape your text will live in.

No app install banner, no "create an account to see more" wall, no avatar or photo. The reader sits with your writing the way they'd sit with a long Sunday email — quietly, on their own time. By the time they decide to reach out, they've already met you.

What they don't see, even on the public link: phone, email, address. Those stay confidential by design for everyone who hasn't matched with you. Strangers can read the writing without being able to extract the contact bits, which means you can write candidly and share generously without choosing between them.

What happens when the reader wants to write back?

At the bottom of the manuscript page there's a soft "Say Hi" button. If the reader taps it, they go through a short signup — age check, first name, agreement to the basics. That's it. No manuscript of their own required on day one, no long forms, no "upload six photos."

The moment they're signed up, they see your manuscript again — but this time not as a passing reader. They can highlight the lines that landed for them, and they can like you. The like arrives in your inbox with those highlights attached: you don't see an anonymous heart, you see the actual phrases from your own writing that this person picked out.

And only now do you decide. Accept the like — or not. Open contacts — or wait. There's no obligation to respond.

That's the small shift the whole format is built for. It's safer than handing out a phone number. Once you've given a number, the other person has your contact — whatever they decide afterwards. When you've given the link, they've only read you. The "keep going or not" decision stays with both of you, and it gets made after both sides have actually read each other.

How does sharing change who reads your writing?

The reader who opens a link you handed them is a different reader than the one who finds you in a swipe queue. They came in with context — they remember the conversation at the meetup, the friend who recommended you, the room where they first met you. The manuscript lands on top of that, not in place of it.

That's the conversion the format quietly enables. The same paragraph that reads as a "long bio" in a swipe queue reads as a real introduction when it arrives via a person you trust. The link is small. The shift is large.

For the longer editorial argument about why writing-first changes the dating funnel shape, see our take on text-based dating and the entrepreneurs' angle on writing once instead of repeating yourself across matches.

What stays private even when you share the link?

The link is public — anyone with it can read your manuscript. What stays private is the part of your writing you'd usually leave out: a phone number, an email, an address, a Telegram handle. Those render as a soft frosted blur for anyone who isn't already a mutual match. Writing them in is safe; sharing the link is safe; the contact info reveals itself only after you and the reader both choose each other.

That's what makes the share link different from a screenshot — a screenshot is frozen and gives away whatever was on screen. A link respects who the reader is. Confidential by design is the longer page on how that part feels.

Quick answers about manuscript sharing

Can anyone with the link read my manuscript?

Yes — the link is public by design. What stays protected is your contact info (phone, email, address), which is blurred for anyone who hasn't matched with you. So the writing is shareable; the personal-data bits are not.

Will my link show up in Google or Yandex?

No. Search engines don't index manuscript links. The page is discoverable only to people you hand the link to.

Where would I print the QR?

A small folded card is the most common shape — something you can keep in a wallet or bag and pull out when the moment arrives. People also print stickers, bookmarks, and back-of-business-card layouts. The QR works at any size large enough to scan.

What happens to the link if I edit my manuscript?

The link stays the same and serves the new version on the next load. Editing doesn't break anyone's existing scan or screenshot of the URL.

Can I have multiple links for different versions?

You have one link, pointing at your currently-published manuscript. The simplicity is on purpose — one link to remember, one place readers come back to.

Does sharing the link count as a referral?

Yes. The link doubles as your referral, so anyone who signs up after reading your manuscript is attributed to you — both of you get a small welcome bonus on your subscription.

The manuscript leaves the app. The introduction happens in the room you're already in.