I think there should be a middle ground where you dont have to completely remove yourself from the news, just the endless feeds and opinions. It does seem helpful to know what is going on with the world. Whether thats socially or just understanding other events. I fully agree there is a limit and most of what is out there is junk but not all of it.
I have been actively trying to build something to get away from the endless feeds of news.
Essentially a modern day newspaper. So you can read what is important and then be done for the day.
It just occurred to me that my grandfather used to watch the news only once a week, and the program was called something like "Weekly News." I think it's a good approach.
Ya im a big fan. The way they break down topics is great. But I was still left scrolling and scrolling.
I am using LLMs for what I am building and i'm envisioning a system that understands what you read yesterday so its able to give you more concise and direct information.
I also enjoy the completeness of a set amount of stories.
Last year artifact inspired me to build out my own AI news app. Even though they decided to shut down I still think there is potential here for more niche products not looking to grow to massive scale.
My news app, Quill, focuses more on completion than endless scrolling. Similar to a traditional newspaper. ~10 stories a day and you can be done. Similar to yahoo news digest from years back.
Just installed and gave it a try. Good initial vibe. One of the first things I wanted to do was share a particular story/summary with someone else (ideally by text or email). Since you’re pushing the sharing idea at the bottom of the front page, maybe you want to consider that option as well? Not much beats getting a potential new user by feeding them the real meat of your product.
I want to do something similar by analyzing my activitypub feed and RSS feeds with a local LLM. I think that would be a much healthier way for me to receive news from the internet.
Thats exactly what I am doing here just with a massive list of RSS feeds. Changing it to a list of personal RSS feeds would be a pretty cool idea. It would allow your own personal digest for the day.
Sure. The site on arrival feels like an ugly PHP example app design from 2008. Use some AI-looking metallic gradients for logo, or anything less orangy-brown.
The use of AI-generated images for the news items is totally dystopian, freakish, and dysfunctional: hallucinated faces for obituaries, AI bias all over the place, surreal representations of things... But I like it! It's a strange feature on its own seeing how AI may (mis)represent a headline. Prompt it to use even more different visual styles, and apply filters (ie color filters) so that the UX doesn't become visually repetitive.
The news text underneath is just garbage, I don't get it. Work on putting out a good AI-generated summary instead, plus real links to real news sites that your LLM/ranker/classifier thinks are the best links to get that news, which will also give attribution for your sources. Bonus for summaries+links to social top ranked comments too. Get rid of snips within snips (which do not work).
Add a short sentence-summary under the headline, or make headlines longer when applicable so that they are more descriptive.
Hi this is a small side project I've built using the latest LLMS. It gathers 10,000+ articles every morning and creates a digest of the most talked about stories.
So far it's done a good job at keeping me on top of the news without having to visit different sites or doom scroll Apple News.
It's an ever improving project to keep up with the AI advances. Even in the past 6 months there has been a 3x reduction in cost and a huge improvement in reasoning. In the future this could be an even more powerful newsroom of sorts.
I've been building a daily news digest with intent of learning something new and creating something cool.
Although AI is the heart of the product, I have noticed that I have been using it as an "anything tool". Though the articles talks about more broad use cases like hardware and robotics, I've found its an anything tool for most of the boring use cases.
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I've built Quill to help simplify the news. I found myself doom scrolling through news apps and wanted something different.
At the moment Quill is built on the same foundation that Yahoo News Digest was. Summaries, Quotes, Images, and more.
Every day it combines thousands of articles and creates 6-10 collections of the most important news stories. I've found it helps me keep up to date without spending hours reading the news.
I think that its a helpful addition to anyone who regularly uses apps like Apple News or similar.
Thanks for sharing newsminimalist. I've unknowingly built nearly the same thing but more visual with additions like maps and images. Similar to Yahoo News Digest from years back.
I like the "relevance score", it would be interesting to implement something similar to that.
I've been able to cut out the news for the most part with a small side project. It combines hundreds of sources and thousands of articles every day to make a concise digest.
In about 5 minutes I can get caught up without doom scrolling.
I built a news digest for myself after I couldn't find a good yahoo news digest alternative. It's a once a day feed of 6-10 stories. Simple and quick enough to keep myself informed.
I have been actively trying to build something to get away from the endless feeds of news.
Essentially a modern day newspaper. So you can read what is important and then be done for the day.
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/quill-news-digest/id1669557131