Is Simily Stepping Up?

Tales from 9 weeks on the platform

Andy Spears
2 min readMar 13, 2022
Photo by 🇸🇮 Janko Ferlič on Unsplash

I’ve been chronicling my journey publishing fiction on Simily for nine weeks now.

Last week, I wrote about stagnation on the platform. The growth remains slow. As of today, they still have less than 3200 members. I’ve read stories on Medium of writers who started there and have since left. The biggest complaint: Lack of engagement.

This is to be expected on a platform with just over 3000 members.

I’ve posted five stories there and gotten some engagement on each post, but that has slipped in recent weeks.

For reference, here’s my most viewed story on Simily so far:

I’ve taken to reposting my fiction here on Medium, too. I’ve actually earned slightly more from Medium engagement on these same posts.

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Andy Spears
Andy Spears

Written by Andy Spears

Writer and policy advocate living in Nashville, TN —Public Policy Ph.D. — writes on education policy, consumer affairs, and more . . .

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