I still remember the first time I felt the gap.
I had just moved to Australia, my English was functional but not mine yet, and I was trying to explain something to a colleague, something small, a family tradition from back home. The words came out flat. The warmth got lost somewhere between Polish and English, between what I meant and what landed. She smiled politely. I smiled back. We both knew something hadn’t crossed the bridge.
That feeling stayed with me for a long time. Not bitterness, just a quiet awareness that stories, the way we tell them, who we tell them to, carry so much of who we are. Lose the story and you lose the thread.
That’s why I want to build Wormsy.
Stories Are Not a Nice-to-Have
There is a tendency to treat storytelling as decoration, something you sprinkle on top of a product or a pitch to make it more palatable. I don’t see it that way. Stories are how humans have always made sense of the world, passed down knowledge, kept relationships alive across distance and time. Before writing, before the internet, before everything, we had stories around a fire.
The problem today is not that people have stopped caring about stories. It’s that the tools for telling them haven’t kept up with how people actually live. We’re stretched across time zones, cultures, languages, generations. The grandmother in Krakow, the grandkid in Melbourne, they both want to connect. But the format, the medium, the shared frame, that’s the hard part.
Wormsy exists to make that part easier.
What We’re Actually Trying to Do
Our mission is simple, even if the execution isn’t: we want anyone, regardless of their background or technical skill, to be able to create stories that land with the people who matter to them.
Not generic content. Not one-size-fits-all narratives. Stories shaped to the audience, the relationship, the moment.
Through AI, we give people the tools to build their own worlds, shape their own voice, and share experiences in a way that feels personal, not produced. The technology sits in the background. The human connection is what comes through.
There are three things I want Wormsy to do well:
Create your own worlds. You should be able to build a story universe that reflects your imagination, your culture, your values. Whether you’re a parent making bedtime stories for your kid or a brand trying to connect with a community, the world you build should feel like yours.
Share stories tailored to the audience. A story for your five-year-old is not the same as a story for your team. Wormsy helps you shape the same idea differently depending on who’s on the receiving end. That’s not manipulation, it’s care.
Build relationships through shared storytelling. The best conversations I’ve had with people weren’t debates or information exchanges. They were stories. Shared, swapped, riffed on. Wormsy is built to support that back-and-forth, the kind of exchange that actually builds trust.
More Than a Platform
I’m cautious about the word “platform.” It’s accurate, but it’s a bit cold. What I’m really trying to build is a bridge.
Between languages. Between generations. Between the version of yourself you know and the one other people get to see.
I spent years feeling slightly out of place, not quite Australian enough, not quite Polish enough either, somewhere in the middle figuring out how to make myself understood. Wormsy is, in some ways, my answer to that. Not just for migrants or expats, but for anyone who has ever struggled to say what they mean in a way the other person could actually feel.
Stories do that. Good ones, the right ones, told in the right way, close distances that logic can’t.
That’s what we’re building. And we’re just getting started.
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