Artifact

Artifact

A personalized news feed, by the Instagram founders

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A personalized news feed driven by advanced artificial intelligence which is currently in private beta, developed by the founders of Instagram, it's kind of like TikTok for text
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Launch tags:Android•iOS•News
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Aaron O'Leary
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Interesting! I've come across this idea before. Can't say it's something I've wished for, but I consume news at an alarming rate, hopefully this could reduce the time I spent doing so by making it more digestable
Chris Messina
Raycast
Waverly from ex-Googler @philbeaudoin already exists and provides a preview of what this kind of product might be like. I wouldn't necessarily bet against @mike_krieger or @kevin_systrom, but personalized news is like the Afghanistan of digital apps. Speaking of, has anyone checked on Flipboard recently? 👀
Melad Javadi
@chrismessina Flipboard is littered with ads these days
Chris Messina
Raycast
@melad_j seems like the future of all news platforms... although the subscriptions that enable you to hop the paywall (like Zette does now and Twitter Blue used to) are interesting. Never subscribed to Apple News+... FWIW, the @mmccue (CEO of Flipboard) responded: Between the ML and the fediverse, everything old is new again. There's no question in my mind that both will spark a whole new round of innovation. Flipboard's ML models are core to our engagement & the fediverse will shape the future of our social layer. Exciting times ahead.
Melad Javadi
@chrismessina yeah agreed! It seems the major question when evaluating where to get my news will be who’s algorithm I like the most in no time at all.
Giles Crouch
@melad_j @mmccue @chrismessina I've been using Apple News+ for a year. While Google News is ok, it's not as well curated and often delivers irrelevant content. One can really customise Apple News+ and I've been able to drop some magazine scrips. Nicer layout too.
Michael Silber
Product Hunt
I get my news from a variety of sources: - Pocket -> long form - Sunday Long Reads Newsletter -> long form - NYT -> breaking news and lifestyle - Google Chrome Discover -> algorithm-based On its surface, it seems to compete most with Pocket, but I enjoy that reading experience. NYT and SLR both have editorial that resonate with me and are not easily replaced. Google is interesting because it often times serves me stuff I wouldn't expect or seek, but it's generally a bit more trashy and mostly serves to kill time. It's also convenient because I see it when I open new Chrome windows, which this dedicated app wouldn't have. I wonder if this will be good enough to replace any of these.
Aaron O'Leary
Product Hunt
Hunter
@product_at_producthunt I'm similar enough. What I want is a quick digest of news that isn't a newsletter that I can read whilst having my breakfast.
Michael Silber
Product Hunt
What could be cool is a smart summary feature. I could cover more topics and then decide if I want to jump into an article or not to read the whole thing
Tom Christo
Is this another US (centre of the universe) centric product as asking for phone number but no option to state what country and won't let me input national codes to identify that I aint in the centre of the Universe that is the USA?
Melad Javadi
All of these products seem limited to the US, is there a restriction here preventing global expansion I’m unaware of?
Chris Messina
Raycast
@melad_j many of the publishers probably aren't adapted to selling globally — handling payments, subscriptions, refunds, etc. Customer service, etc.
Melad Javadi
@chrismessina my assumption would have been that most payment processing services have global capabilities although there’s probably a tonne that goes with that operationally, including customer service. Fair call!
Manuel Gonzalez
@melad_j @bubudrc_ I just downloaded and found some errors. I have mailed it, but check also your spam as often they come into the Spam. Thanks.
Ken Savage
I'm writing this comment for historical reasons: I think this is a bad idea. TikTok will eventually fail and I don't want machines telling me what I should be paying attention to. I want to follow intelligent people, amazing innovative products and the newest funniest memes 🤦🏼‍♂️
ZenUnwired
@kensavage Agree fully. As in - Why would I purposely try to create an echo chamber for myself via 'personalized' news?
Mike Staub
This type of product has to be open source imo
Chris Messina
Raycast
Mike Staub
@chrismessina something as personal and sensitive as a news feed needs to be fully transparent and in control of the user. Especially if they are using ML models.
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