I have to track a lot of news in various niches for my work (e.g. AI, Bonds etc). Been using Google News and Google Reader (from back in the day) for god knows how many years now. However, I got increasingly annoyed with Google's algorithm showing me sources I didn't recognise / trust.
I decided to build a completely free site called 100.news that allows you to:
Choose the topics/keywords you're interested in
Choose the sources you trust - I have linked over 70 sources so far from outlets that bother to make their RSS feeds accessible (you would be surprised by how many trusted news sources gatekeep - The Economist and The Times to name and shame!)
You end up with a real-time feed only from sources and topics you have curated yourself.
Just built this over the weekend so very open to criticism!
PaulHoule · 21h ago
Seems like a system like this will quickly find more content than you can read and then you need some kind of algorithm to manage the volume.
haniehz · 21h ago
How are you thinking about scaling topic and source curation without turning into another aggregator that makes assumptions for the user?
Brajeshwar · 21h ago
I stopped doing news long back (I think like 10+ years ago). Of course, never on the phone but while I sit down on my desk computer, I do look around and so far I have two places that I like;
I decided to build a completely free site called 100.news that allows you to:
Choose the topics/keywords you're interested in
Choose the sources you trust - I have linked over 70 sources so far from outlets that bother to make their RSS feeds accessible (you would be surprised by how many trusted news sources gatekeep - The Economist and The Times to name and shame!)
You end up with a real-time feed only from sources and topics you have curated yourself.
Just built this over the weekend so very open to criticism!
- https://www.newsminimalist.com/
- https://particle.news/