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Newsvoice is a news app and community that shows more perspectives of the news. Our technology scans the web and analyzes the articles, but ultimately lets our readers decide what’s important. Newsvoice’s vision is to break filter bubbles, to challenge media bias, and to stop fake news.
With the help of our readers, Newsvoice will gather, analyze, and rank news stories and perspectives to regain the trust in news media. We want people to widen their views. We want them to discuss current issues with their opposition to find greater solutions. Newsvoice is news reporting crowdsourced and democratized.
We are inviting the Product Hunt community to try out our very first version and we’re excited to get feedback and answer your questions. If you find this useful, please share it with your friends. Let’s change the world together!
Fun fact: Newsvoice is the very first released app built with Google’s new cross-platform framework Flutter.io. Newsvoice is available on the web, in App Store and in Google Play. 🔥
Hi,
My name is Viktor and I’m responsible for the development of Newsvoice. Previously, I have worked as senior software engineer at Google, Zynga, as well as some smaller startups. We built the iOS and Android apps using Flutter.io, Google’s new cross platform framework. It’s still in development but if you don’t mind digging into the code it’s super fast to get things done. We made the apps from zero to App Store and Google Play in less than three weeks. The backend is more traditional, using Python and Postgres. I’m available if you have any questions, here or Twitter @viktorlidholt. Thanks!
This product couldn't come at a better time. I hope it does a good job of comparing different perspectives, and generally educating people on "online partisanship".
@jevinsew Thank you Jevin – I agree. Right now, we try to show different perspective on different kind of news to give a more comprehensive picture of the events. Say you read about the crisis in Syria, we might show a perspective from the U.S., Russia and the Middle East. If you read about American politics, you might see a left-wing, right-wing and a foreign perspective.
@jevinsew@ohedwall We currently pick the 3 highest voted perspectives, so initially this may be somewhat random until readers start voting. We won't just show the top three links though, they top three always are from different perspectives.
@ohedwall P.S. I really like how news is tagged "Right", "Center", or "Left" etc. Would be cool if you could add other factors in, such as negativity vs. positivity. I imagine you can determine this through the dominance of certain language.
@peter_enestrom Yeah, good point. We have actually done some tests with sentiment analysis on articles to do just that, but the results haven't been good enough/added value yet :)
@peter_enestrom@ohedwall Thanks! :) We've been looking at analyzing the sentiment in the articles and that may be something we add in the not too distant future.
@jeffrey_wyman We use a similar ranking algorithm as Reddit, but we are specifically targeting news, and are always showing different perspectives. I think you'll find that it's a quite different experience and hopefully better suited for news. :)
This will become your go-to source for news from a variety of sources. Whether from right, center, or left-leaning reporters, events are presented with source material from reputable news organizations across the spectrum of political leanings. Each event is summarized in a neutral way, and you can click on at least 3 news accounts of that event from different sources. Tired of all the accusations of fake news? Now you can think for yourself.
Been using this app since, I think was Tim Pool, mentioned it in one of his videos. So far I haven't had any serious problems while using it. Two things to note is that sometimes changing sections too fast gives a red error screen, and that in some news, the links not always correspond to the news presented (although that has to do more with the contributors than the app itself). Overall a kind of app that was direly needed in these times of opinion pieces being presented as news.
P.S. The comments' section is always a riot to read.
Newsvoice is a remarkable app that I've personally been touring to my irl friends and on social media. The Newsvoice team is continually improving the app and are very receptive to user feedback. The comment section is lively and view points are never censored, something which is sorely missing elsewhere.
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Newsvoice has really changed how I read the news!
Pros:Opens up ones perspective of the news
Cons:In-app comments can be painful to read