How Zero really works
Three steps to get started, the questions people ask most, and how everything really works.
The algorithm doesn't care how many followers you have. It cares about one thing: do people actually stick around and come back?
If people finish your episodes and come back for the next one, more people get to see you. Followers help a little, but only up to a point. After that, having more doesn't push you higher.
Your score never goes down because you're small. It goes down only if you leave a Journey unfinished and stop publishing, or if people report you and we confirm something was actually wrong. Finished telling a Journey? Mark it as completed and it keeps its score.
A journeyer with 5 followers, where everyone finishes every episode, is shown to more people than a journeyer with 600 followers that nobody finishes.
Paying doesn't get you seen more. On Zero, a Journey rises only because people actually watch and love it, never because someone paid for it.
Browse real Journeys documented by other people and choose the one closest to what you're looking for.
Pick up exactly where you left off, just like a streaming platform.
Become a journeyer and document your Journey, mistakes included.
It's a real path, told in chapters and episodes: not just the final outcome, but the whole process.
Yes, following Journeys and using Zero as a viewer is free. Some journeyers offer paid communities, workshops, or services.
Yes. Create a journeyer profile and publish your first Journey (in the first version you can have one active Journey at a time).
Yes, payments go through Stripe only and your data is never shared with third parties without your consent.
On Zero, publishing an episode isn't final. Found a mistake, or want to make it better? You can swap the video for a new one (it keeps its spot in your Journey, and all its likes and views). Other apps make you delete everything and start again with no views. Zero doesn't.
