Listen to this articleBelow is our recent interview with Titus Wittmann, Co-Founder of Epiloge:
Q: Titus, could you provide our readers with a brief introduction to Epiloge?
A: The idea for Epiloge was conceived back in 2017 when my brother and I realized that we had put a lot of time and effort into various projects, presentations and papers at university and in our professional careers, but there was no simple way to describe and share them on a dedicated public platform.
In addition, we are both interested in lots of different topics from tech to the environment and were surprised that really cool projects such as reforestation efforts or university engineering projects showed up on a company website or in an article somewhere, but there was no connecting place where you get insights, read more about it and see who worked on these projects.
Epiloge is focused on that exactly – sharing your projects, work, papers and knowledge with others in a multimedia format. And allowing users to connect within their community and field, in particular because the work and knowledge they share let them stand out.
Q: Can you give us some insights on how you share your projects and work on Epiloge?
A: We have built an easy to use multimedia editor to write about any topic or simply copy in text you wrote elsewhere, for instance for a university class, incorporating images or embed videos in a well designed article format. You can also just upload a paper or presentation and include a summary for other readers to get inspired.
In addition, we built our editor to be used not just by a single person, but also by teams together. That’s an absolutely unique feature we haven’t found implemented elsewhere. Our vision is to have interesting work shown on Epiloge and the team not just credited, but team members interactively pitching in for the description, endorsing key contributors and connecting through their work (not just within the team, but with others in their field or community, too).
Q: What do people who sign up to Epiloge get out of it?
A: Despite all the social media and networks available today, connecting and finding like-minded people at university or in your field can still be hard. Epiloge is an additional way to connect, on a general basis and more specifically within context and interests.
Epiloge is pretty straightforward to use and provides a way to give insights into what you actually do during university or in your professional field.
Often we put a lot of time into work products that end up just on a hard disk, although they can be interesting and inspiring to others. With these articles and projects shared with other users, people can build a different type of user profile linked to an organization page such as your university, company or a student club.
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Q: Can you let us know how linking content to organizations works?
A: From our current user base we know that there are different interest groups. A professor who works on a project in geology might want to share a few details for other students or colleagues to get informed – and connect that project to the university page so outside readers notice it. If you have a start-up or run a company and want to let people read beyond what is on your own website in a beautifully designed format, you can do that on Epiloge.
Epiloge also helps if you simply want to build up a network at your university or in your field in context of what you and others do by connecting to an organization and linking an article you write or a paper or presentation to it.
Q: What are your plans for the future?
A: While we started working on Epiloge in 2017, we only launched it to the public in October 2019. Therefore, we are still in an early stage.
Currently, we are growing our user base and working on extending some features, keeping our principles of a beautiful design, easy usability and a clear benefit for all users. We’ll continue along those lines to provide a platform for the exchange of knowledge and to build your network with the Dalai Lama’s quote in mind “share your knowledge, it’s a way to achieve immortality”.
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