Contributors wanted
You already own
something unbearably dull.
An appliance manual. A parish council agenda. Your home insurance policy. The assembly instructions for a wardrobe. Read one aloud, upload it, and get paid every time somebody falls asleep to it.
Free to join. You do not need a subscription to contribute, and you keep the rights to everything you record.
Somebody wrote that slide. We would pay them.
What we actually want
Not stories. Not performances. Not your best radio voice. We want the flattest, most administrative material you can find, read evenly, for a long time.
- Instruction manuals, warranty documents, assembly steps, service schedules.
- Minutes of meetings — parish councils, committees, residents' associations.
- Terms and conditions, privacy policies, insurance schedules, tax guidance.
- Timetables, stock lists, part catalogues, rainfall records, stitch counts.
- Long, uneventful descriptions of slow processes and flat journeys.
Longer is better. Aim past 2 min; forty-five minutes and up is the sweet spot. An ending is an event, and events wake people.
The full guidelinesHow the money works
No advance, no per-upload fee, and nothing hidden. These are the real numbers this site is running on right now — this page reads them from the same settings the software uses.
One subscription, followed through
| A listener pays | $10.00 |
| Less card processing | − $0.59 |
| Net | $9.41 |
| Into the contributor pot (50%) | $4.71 |
Every subscription that month adds to the same pot.
Your share of it
The pot is divided by time actually listened to. If people spent 3% of last month's listening on your recordings, you get 3% of the pot.
Not per upload. Not per play. Per second that a real subscriber genuinely spent listening — because a play is trivial to manufacture and tells us nothing, while time asleep is the entire product.
Once your balance passes $25.00 you request a payout and we send it.
Two rules that protect you from everybody else
- Nobody earns from their own listening. Playing your own recording pays you nothing. Otherwise the cheapest way to earn would be to leave your own reading running all night, and the pot would go to whoever had the most patience rather than the best recording.
- One listener can only make one recording earn so much in a day (2 hr). Beyond that it still plays perfectly normally — it simply stops adding to the total.
What it takes
Find the dullest thing within reach
You almost certainly already have it in a drawer.
Read it, evenly, into your phone
No music, no intro, no jokes, no building to anything. A quiet room and a level voice. MP3 is fine — this is a voice reading a freezer manual, not a master.
Upload it and wait to be reviewed
A person listens to everything before it goes in the library. If we cannot use it we tell you which of the four usual reasons applies, and you can fix it and send it back.
The obvious questions
Do I need a subscription?
No. Contributing is free and entirely separate from listening. You never have to pay us anything.
Do I keep the rights?
Yes. You grant us a licence to stream your recording to subscribers while it is in the library, and nothing more. Retire it whenever you like and it comes out immediately — anything it has already earned stays in your balance.
What if my voice is boring?
Then you are exactly who we are looking for. This is the one place on the internet where that is the qualification rather than the problem.
How much will I actually make?
It depends on subscriber numbers and on how much people listen, so nobody can honestly promise you a rate — and we are not going to. The worked example shows the shape of it with real numbers.
Can I read a book I like?
Only if it is yours to read. No commercial audiobooks, no copyrighted readings, and nothing containing anybody's private information. That is the one rule we enforce strictly.
How long until it is live?
As long as it takes a person to listen to it. It is not instant, and it is not meant to be — the whole shelf depends on nothing surprising being on it.
Go and find something boring.
It takes a few minutes to sign up, and the first recording can be something you read off a page you already own.