Newsdrop

Digital newspaper with minimalist news summaries

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Digital newspaper with minimalist news summaries

5 followers

Newsdrop is a smart news curation app for iPhone and Apple Watch. It is based around a skimmable news feed and news summaries crafted to deliver as much information as possible in under 200 words.

Launch tags:Productivity•News

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Newsdrop

Maker

Hi ProductHunt! 👋 I’m Dino from Newsdrop and I’m really delighted to be sharing our app with the community. We built Newsdrop for people who are busy and don’t have either time or patience for regular news sites. The idea is simple: ensure all news fit in about 200 words, and make sure it’s super easy to read. And how did we do it? Well, it’s a mix of interface design and human effort. All news is shown as snippets that expand on tap, so basically opening the article is completely optional. We aim to front-load the snippets with as much info as possible, to make it easy to skim through the feed. The second part involves effort by real editors - we manually select, source and summarize the most relevant news, without the use of algorithms or auto generators. The editors also pick out interesting stories and videos to provide something interesting for when you do have the time. All in all, we figure it’s a good way to stay in the loop in just a few minutes a day. It’s really undemanding, and you always know when the new batch of news will arrive - it happens four times a day, on a predictable schedule. We’d love to hear your feedback on the app as well as the general idea. Feel free to give it a try, it could grow on you! You can get it here: https://apps.apple.com/app/id153... Thank you! The Newsdrop Team

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5yr ago

@dino_vidakovic is there any plan to launch it on Android?

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@tarush_jain We are certainly considering it. At the moment, it was much more practical for us to release only the iPhone and Apple Watch versions. We are already getting tremendous response, so I am fairly confident that we will be able to scale up to other devices and platforms in the near future!

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5yr ago

@tarush_jain @dino_vidakovic thats definitely a good news...do drop in some info here when it launches on android

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@tarush_jain Will do! Thanks for your support!

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5yr ago

Oh this is amazing! Reminds me of the app, that a 17 year old sold to yahoo!

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@sharlsz Hi Sharlene, thanks for the kind words! If you're talking about Summly, yes, we're a bit similar, though we've looked at algorithm-based solutions and figured that the tech is not quite there yet, but more importantly, people still prefer the human touch :)

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5yr ago

Hello ! I've tried it, it's well done. Small feature : copy text ? (I tried to google a name from an article) + curious to know if you have a deal with the publishers or AP/APF etc, so are you writing the content yourself ?

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

Hi @abstraktion , nice catch! The copy feature is something we're working on. Regarding the publishers, we don't have any deals as we're writing the content ourselves, and from several sources at that, so I believe this adds more value than regular syndication.

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5yr ago

@abstraktion @dino_vidakovic great ! Add a map with news locations :) Shall you write in French later on ? You may try my product with voice recognition : https://color.abstraktion.io/

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

Map view is on our wishlist! We'd like to expand to other languages in the future, but we're keeping it realistic so far. Great product btw. :)

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5yr ago

@dino_vidakovic thanks ! - keep in touch if you touch France !

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5yr ago

How do you avoid bias when compressing a long story into a single short headline?

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@jimmy_cerone Great question! We actually spent a great deal of time trying to find the best way to deal with this. What we came up with are guidelines that our editors follow as well as some backend mechanisms that make them double check their work. On top of that, there are certain wording structures which we use that are more preferable than others in order to maintain objectivity.

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5yr ago

@jimmy_cerone @dino_vidakovic are there any external checks? Like could you perhaps use a Grounded.news API to provide an additional layer?

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5yr ago

@jimmy_cerone @dino_vidakovic *ground.news

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@jimmy_cerone that actually never occurred to us. I will discuss with the team and let you know our thoughts. Thanks!

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5yr ago

I like the UI but being based in the Middle East, I would like to see a setting to set your region in the future and get news around that.

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

Hey @ajaffarali! Localization is one of the main items on our roadmap. It will take some time as we've only just started, but we hope to get there soon! Thanks for your input!

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5yr ago

Hi @ajaffarali Would love to hear your thoughts about gethodhod.com , which is a similar app we created targeting middle east Arabic readers.

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5yr ago

Seems promising, can we expect an app for Android?

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@mordecai25 Very likely, but at the moment we're focusing exclusively on Apple devices.

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5yr ago

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That's something I'd love to use. One question though, how do you deal with fake news?

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5yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

Good question @sadamiak. We rely on our editors to analyze and evaluate the credibility of news they write about. We also try to find more than one source on any given topic, which reduces the chances of someting blatantly fake slipping through the cracks. It we're writing about something very partisan, we look at sources from both sides of the aisle, so to say.

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5yr ago

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