Brev is not for everyone. It is for you — if you have been looking, and looking, for a typewriter with a send button.
Remember the nineties? The almost unbelievable magic of sending your very first email? The feeling that your words travelled through invisible cables, appeared on someone else's screen, and that you — well, I'll be damned — got a reply? Perhaps from the other side of the world? It felt like a miracle.
Since then the internet has grown up: more efficient, more streamlined, and infinitely more exhausting.
Whether you grew up with a 14k modem dialling home, or you are an internet native who has never known a world without Wi-Fi, you probably feel the same weariness. We are drowning in noise, nagging, flashing pop-ups and algorithms designed to steal our sleep and our peace of mind. Somewhere in all that colourful racket we lost simple, genuine contact between people.
Brev is made to restore that direct, undisturbed contact. Person to person.
Brev is for people who want to use the internet to talk to people — not to feed a machine. You might recognise yourself in one of these:
Perhaps you are going on exchange to Australia, moving to a farm in Denmark, or setting out on a long journey. Instead of stuffing glossy pictures into Instagram's algorithms, you want to send long, imperfect, honest travel letters home to people who actually care.
Perhaps you have written a novel and think: to hell with it — I will publish it my own way. You want to send out one chapter a week, straight to the inbox of a dedicated circle of readers who get to sink into your world in peace.
Whether you draw gulls in new poses every day, or share obscure high-resolution images from NASA's moon landings, you want a place where your passion gets the respect it deserves — where the details do not drown in a feed.
You who want to share the season's recipes, experiences with traditional craft, or weekly updates from the vegetable garden — without your words having to compete with videos of dancing teenagers.
Wondering how our philosophy plays out against the big platforms? We have put together Brev vs. the rest of the newsletter world.
Brev should still be here in a hundred years. We have no rich investors behind us, and we will never sell your data or sneak ads in behind your back. For the platform to be sustainable for us, and predictable for you, we are planning a simple monthly price — about the same as one cup of coffee in a café.
(For comparison, a beer outdoors in Norway runs about 130 kroner; we think that is fair once payment is in place.)
Free in beta. The prices below are planned for when payment opens — you cannot buy a subscription yet. Join the waitlist to write while we build.
50 NOK / month (planned)
For you who want a quiet place to write. One newsletter with up to 500 subscribers. Send as many letters as you like, on a completely clean surface — no noise, no ads. (If you absolutely need two entirely different newsletters — one for your short stories and one for your drawings of dahlias — you will need two separate publications. That comes when we open for more letters on a higher plan.)
150 NOK / month (planned)
For you who have outgrown the smallest circle. One newsletter with up to 2,500 readers. Everything you need for your words to reach a large gathering — with the same deep quiet intact.
Are things tight financially? If you are a student, on a minimum pension, out of work, or simply have a genuinely passionate project and an empty bank account: send me an ordinary email. We will find a way. We are not here to get rich off Brev, but we should not run at a loss either. The important thing is that the words get through.
Does this sound like the home you have been looking for?
Join the waiting list