bmusto19

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by bmusto19 7y ago
We've created a slack channel to continue the discussion and receive feedback on our site. You can join here: https://join.slack.com/t/newspherecommunity/shared_invite/en...
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by bmusto19 7y ago
For sure, our beta is pretty bare bones but we'll refine it over the next few months, especially after we get feedback from our planned beta launch at the end of the month
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Could you explain this a bit more? I'm not sure I'm following how this would be implemented
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by bmusto19 7y ago
It's great to know other people are also trying to tackle this problem! I agree, the titles of news stories are often to grab one's attention rather than convey the true contents of a story, and we're still trying to solve th
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by bmusto19 7y ago
We've updated the frontpage so that the video plays from youtube now, let us know if you guys keep running into issues watching it!
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Thanks! Currently for our MVP just AP News, which we're getting from here: https://newsapi.org/ . We're working on perfecting the site with one or two news sources first before expanding to more options. Definitely
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Makes sense. Do you mean deep-dive topic pages on specific events such as the syrian civil war, for example?
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by bmusto19 7y ago
User-configurable does sound like a good option, hopefully something we can integrate into the site soon
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Great point, we'll have to work on that going forward. We've been using AP News as our main source for the moment as it is fairly neutral, but we're looking for ways to handle different sources going forward. We went with goo
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by bmusto19 7y ago
We've been using https://newsapi.org/
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Thanks, we think so as well :)
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Thanks for the feedback! That's something we've been thinking of implementing, perhaps with a search feature as well. And we'll definitely try to reach out to Austen, especially with his success in the startup world. Are ther
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by bmusto19 7y ago
We are still working on our pricing model but right now we are looking at a doing freemium model. Free version would have some limitations (ex: a limited number of news sources that stories can be pulled from, so choosing 3 sources from lis
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by bmusto19 7y ago
We're working on fixing the website video, in the meantime we have the video up on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpwgat54KXg&t=3s Additionally we have a one page PDF summary here: https:/&#x2F
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Thank you for the feedback! We're also really liking the timeline aspect of the stie, but we still think there's ways to incorporate at least some sort of graph model as well. This might be something we'd A/B test
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by bmusto19 7y ago
We're working on fixing the video on our site, if you'd like you can watch it on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpwgat54KXg&t=3s
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Our demo video is on the main page of our site and can be found on youtube here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wpwgat54KXg&t=3s Additionally you can check out our one page user guide PDF here: https://docs.
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Good point, that's definitely a suggestion we'll incorporate into the site!
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by bmusto19 7y ago
What browser were you using? We've mostly been testing the site on Chrome and Safari.
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Thanks! Those logos were actually left behind from the website template we were using and have been removed.
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by bmusto19 7y ago
Hi there! My friend and I are working on a website called The Newsphere and we’re looking for others who share our interest in understanding current events to help us beta test our platform. The Newsphere acts as a virtual map of world news
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Show HN: A New Tool to Understand and Visualize the News(newsphere.org)
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