AngryPages

Turn your opinions, stories, and ideas into income.

Angry because real stories get buried. Pages because they deserve a publisher.

Writing your story

Your writing becomes a book.

Published on AngryPages

How a sale splits

Sale price $10
Platform fee -$2
You keep (80%) $8

It made the papers.

Daily Mirror newspaper clipping featuring Lehan Edirisinghe and the headline Sri Lanka should start exporting stories, ideas and intellectual property.

Daily Mirror Feature

Sri Lanka's only free press bet on us.

Publication: Daily Mirror

Section: News Features

News Features Q&A on AngryPages, Lehan Edirisinghe, and exporting Sri Lankan stories, ideas, and intellectual property.

Published:

Author: Kamanthi Wickramasinghe

Interviewee: Lehan Edirisinghe, Media Platform Owner

Headline: “Sri Lanka should start exporting stories, ideas and intellectual property”

Pull quote: “AngryPages Inc is a publishing company (not another social network) in California, with IP sheltered in our Delaware AngryPages Holdings Inc. AngryPages.com is an Intellectual Property Piggy Bank, which will grow, with every story you save, compounding as a permanent asset you can earn with for life. Finally a really cool way for Sri Lankans to export ideas anywhere”

Summary: Daily Mirror’s News Features Q&A profiles AngryPages Inc., a live California-based media platform founded by Sri Lankan entrepreneur Lehan Edirisinghe. The article describes AngryPages as a permanent library for long-form, diary-style storytelling, designed to monetise original content from Sri Lankan writers and reach the high-value U.S. reading market.

Topics covered: inspiration behind AngryPages; why it is called AngryPages; the concept and objective of the platform; U.S. readership; investor strategy; how Sri Lankan writers can contribute; writer benefits; copyright concerns; technical challenges; and Sri Lanka exporting stories, ideas, and intellectual property.

Source URL: https://www.dailymirror.lk/news-features/Sri-Lanka-should-start-exporting-stories-ideas-and-intellectual-property/131-337550

It's a real publisher.

We use AngryPages to tell our story; we can publish you.

Story

  • 1.5-million-word diary, 90% free to read
  • American Psycho voice. One man, one country on fire. 7 years.
  • $20.17

    Paywalled

  • $83.20

    Bold

  • $326.90

    Private

Open Story

Platform

  • 80% payout on sales, with ad sales split 50/50
  • Published from California for brave work, free speech, and an American readership
  • Built for people who write what others won't publish

Free to use

Open Platform

People already publish here.

The Magic Book Everyone Can See

Lehan Edirisinghe

$5 Free

Footprints Across The Sky (2026)

Hemasiri Wijayagunawardane

$7.50

Pre-order

Story of a Signalman in the Royal Ceylon Navy (2026)

Quintus Andradi

$10.00

The River That Broke Through the Barriers (2026)

Dr. Gamini Kariyawasam

$10.00

Live Story

Read the live 2026 diary as it unfolds.

Game

Enter the story world through the game.

Free to Play

Stand out.

People who refused to leave things as they were. Click a person to read their story.

You've already lived the material.

Years of takes, notes, reactions, and records are already yours. Open a source: see what dies on other platforms, what you publish here, and why that is a product.

YouTube and streaming

Your best argument is buried in a long video. Pull it onto a page readers finish — and can pay for.

Movies, TV, music, and games

Recaps, rankings, and takes that die in group chat become published criticism people re-read and buy.

Books, Bible, and diaries

Notes, scripture study, and life pages become a lasting collection under your name — not a drawer full of drafts.

News and current events

Stop donating your judgment to a comment thread. Publish the take that should have been the story.

Honest reviews

Months of real use beat a star rating. Publish the full record buyers will pay to read before they spend.

Social media and AI

Threads, captions, and AI chats are half-finished books. Finish them where you own the page.

School and work

Essays and project lessons prove ability when strangers can open them. Build that portfolio here.

Private records

Keep the evidence private. Publish the claim. Eligible work can stand as document-backed without dumping the file online.

Keep $8 of every $10.

The 20% pays for the company that runs behind your work.

Bank-grade hosting

Database, cache, backups, security, and monitoring so years of writing do not die on a cheap host.

Global speed

Under three seconds worldwide on Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS, and nginx. Slow pages lose readers.

Free speech, protected

California publisher under the First Amendment, with process for hard lawful writing — not a panic delete button.

American banks

Stripe, Choice Financial, and JPMorgan Chase so a sale can become money in a real account.

Bring your back catalog.

Import from Substack, Medium, WordPress, Ghost, X, or Facebook. Launch with the years you already wrote.

Self-serve import$0
Advisory$30 / 30 min

$1/min

Human help when automation is not enough

Monthly subscriptions

Monthly subscriptions.

You set the price. We handle billing, failed payments, and access.

Free posts earn too.

We pursue Google, Meta, and Amazon ads for eligible free work. When an ad pays, you keep half.

You keep $800

You keep 80%.

Sell a $10 book to 100 readers and keep $800. To 1,000 readers, keep $8,000.

Free until you earn

Publish free. 1 GB storage free. Then $2 per GB a year and $0.10 per AI tool. No monthly rent just to exist.

Why AngryPages?

Open a card. Each one is a reason this is a publishing company, not a feed.

Angry.

Anger entertains. Criticism of any book, film, idea, or person is protected under fair use. We're the one publisher that says it out loud.

Pages.

Real stories deserve a proper publisher. Direct writing. Properly published.

It's an asset.

Your work becomes a durable published product — not a disposable feed post.

You win first.

You can sell strong work directly, with the platform winning only when the creator wins. Spend $1,000 on promotion and earn multiples back — not burn $500 to print and walk away with $150.

100k+ unique visitors per month

100k+/mo unique visitors

Real readers, every month. Your work goes into an archive that already has an audience.

Verified by Cloudflare.

We are your agent.

Big publishers only accept manuscripts through agents. We are that agent. First book or tenth, we back you.

Brand value.

A story earns $2 on its own. Add structure and images, it's $5. The AngryPages™ brand makes it worth $10.

Build your reputation.

Build a public name here. Your bio, your work, your track record — that is the proof that opens every next door.

Book publicist retainer $1,500-$6,000/moPublic profile + track record

Free

Bring a friend. Earn together.

Know someone with a story? Bring them in. They keep 50% of everything they earn. You earn 30% — recurring, on every sale they make. They'll love you for it.

Referral agents elsewhere $0/yr

30%

Free Speech.

As we're a diary platform, we go beyond words to ideas, we prize freedom, the publishing freedom America was built to protect.

You own it.

You own where your ideas live in our Delaware HoldCo services — like a bank account for your ideas/content. We publish it with you — from OpCo when we can.

Hard Truth.

We don't promise sales — we love honest 10s. But we back 7+ writers who are growing. Results require real effort. Your creativity, your content, your success. We use our own AI behind the scenes to publish and support you.

Consumer AI subscriptions $200-$300/moEnterprise-tier AI + US Gate + 8M publishing dataset

Included

Write freely. We'll sort it.

Our AI — trained on 1.5 million words of our own diary — sorts your work to earn and stay safe. Built for the work serious writers can't place elsewhere.

The summer of '71, I drove a borrowed convertible into Palm Springs to sing in the lounges. I've never told my family the real reason I left home that June — or what I did for the gas money to get there. The nights blurred: too much whiskey, a different stranger in my motel room each weekend. We'd play Frank Sinatra till sunrise — "Fly Me to the Moon" on repeat — and I kept a shoebox of Polaroids from every one. The night the club owner refused to pay me, I told him I'd put him in the hospital.

I was twenty-six when they handed me a Reuters press pass and told me to get close. I drove a rental car four hours to reach him. I did. What I found out about the campaign manager was never going to see print. My editor said publish it and we both lose our jobs. I slept with him anyway, three weeks before the primary — I needed to know what he knew. I kept his notes, a hotel receipt from Charlotte with both our names on it. He won. He's still in office. I have everything, and I've never used it.

My father built the company on one lathe in a rented garage in New Jersey. When he died we found the books had been altered for twenty-two years. My brother had drawn a salary none of us knew about. The lawyer said settle; I named names anyway. I gave the story to Bloomberg. Three of us didn't speak for four years. My youngest nephew was told I was dead. I don't regret the choice. One of the names in that ledger is now a state assemblyman.

Tier 1 — Public

Brand-safe. Open to all and ready for ads.

Tier 2 — Paywalled

Sensitive — and worth paying for. Locked to buyers.

Tier 3 — Bold

Mature themes. Ad networks won't sponsor it — buyers will.

Tier 4 — Private

Risky or offensive. You share it — we don't promote it.

Tier 5 — Secret

PR, safety, or legal risk. Only you can see it — never shared.

Nothing gets deleted

Every word stays, from public to secret.

Tier A — Open

No brand named yet. We detect the gap and open it to auction.

Tier B — Placed

A real name is already in the story. We surface it and offer the PR.

The first names on the wall.

Real people. Real firsts. Open a card for the case study.

Lehan EdirisingheFounder

Lehan Edirisinghe

"I couldn't sell my work anywhere. Creativity, truth, art -- not brand-safe. So I built AngryPages, in the US. Strong freedom of expression, anti-SLAPP and pro-tech laws. I published 1.5 million words. I'm earning 80% with it. If I can do this, trust me, you can too."

Hemasiri Wijayagunawardane1st Author

Hemasiri Wijayagunawardane

"HuffPost didn't answer. Lehan spent hours with me to perfect my AngryPages™ life story. What was just text, now has 180 story cards, with images, over 20+ chapters. I'm pricing $7.50 to inspire the next gen. Google will index me. Will launch soon. I wish I got this sooner."

Koshitha GunadasaTreats CMB (SL) · 1st Advertiser

Koshitha Gunadasa
Treats CMB

"We run ads on Uber, FB and Instagram. We spent $1,000 at $5 per 1,000. Soon our premium eclairs got in many real stories. It's mesmerizing when real people mention us favorably. It normalizes our brand. Fair like TikTok and Google's $4, but better than $14 Reddit!"

Raja HettiarachchiIMF · Maryland, USA · 1st US User

Raja Hetti
IMF

"I always joked with Lehan about his 'blog'. But wow, this is a very well-designed, serious platform, which makes it easy for anyone to come up in life. You've taken the very best America has to offer — freedom — and bravely given it to everyone."

Venura WijenayakeCalifornia, USA · 1st US Customer

Venura Wijenayake

"I got fed up with AI-generated clips always going viral. I only love a few, great YouTubers. And I love the stories I find on AngryPages. They are fun to read. I wrote an early story here too. I can sell it privately to anyone, anywhere."

Alex MarshCoventry, UK · 1st UK Customer

Alex Marsh

"AngryPages is category-defining — rewards you for opening up a diary. I get to see the real, most authentic versions of good people through story. You can heal wounds. You can build a personal brand presence among millions of readers."

The most powerful story is your own.

Everywhere else, you post and they own it. Here, you own your name and everything you publish under it. No one can take it from you. The page is blank and it is yours. Write the first true line.

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The Offer

Marcus called to say the offer was $40,000. “Take it or leave it,” he said. “You don’t have that kind of time.” I hung up and sat in my car for twenty minutes.

What He Already Knew

I called my accountant. She said the IP alone was worth four times that. Marcus knew — he’d had the same valuation done himself. I found that out from the accountant he’d fired the week before.

Day Twelve

I sent a counter. He went quiet for eleven days. On day twelve he came back at $180,000. I signed. He never mentioned the $40,000 again. I wrote this the same afternoon.

The $40,000 Line

June 20, 2026

2:30 AM

The Offer

Marcus called to say the offer was $40,000. “Take it or leave it,” he said.

2:45 AM

What He Already Knew

I called my accountant. She said the IP alone was worth four times that.

2:45 AM

Day Twelve

I sent a counter. He went quiet for eleven days. On day twelve he came back at $180,000.

The $40,000 Line

June 20, 2026

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2:30 AM

The Offer

Marcus called to say the offer was $40,000.

2:45 AM

What He Already Knew

2:45 AM

Day Twelve

Too big for one page. Better as years.

Start with 2020. Then move forward into fortification, collapse, overload, publication pressure, and payoff.

Real people recur here.

Real people, Colombo figures, institutions, and pressure points recur across years.

Open Names