Comments on post “The Perspective”
Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
There are so many publications and places to get news. This feels fresh, delivering the news in a unique way.
@daniel_ravner: Are you writing all the content? How do you balance opposing viewpoints, especially when you might feel strongly one way yourself?
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Michael Joseph
@michaelcjoseph · Product Guy. Experimenter.
@rrhoover Looking at some of the stories options, it looks like they're providing content from other sources too (including writing their own which I believe they are doing). @daniel_ravner Are you guys manually picking topics and finding articles for both sides of a given topic or is there a bit of an algorithmic approach to this?
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Daniel Ravner
@daniel_ravner · Founder of The Perspective
@rrhoover First of all thanks for the kind words. In response to your question, we have a team of writers writing the content, each with his/hers field of expertise. Re the subjectivity, that’s really the brand’s promise so we have to live up to it. The way we do it is through content formats. All of our features are structured to be balanced, so as long as we focus on fulfilling the format, we make good on our word. Plus, I’m lucky to have great researchers and writers so the content editing is really focused on that aspect….BTW, we don’t set out to say anything objective in any given paragraph, on the contrary, we try our best to be subjective, but we make sure that for every Yin, there’s a Yang. Also, what shapes our arguments (especially in the Essentials) is that we try not to focus on the strongest arguments, but on the ones that have the best chance of getting through to someone with an opposing view.
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Daniel Ravner
@daniel_ravner · Founder of The Perspective
@michaelcjoseph @rrhoover It's all hand made. That's how we assure the time you're investing is worth your while. The Trending Perspectives are aggregated, and the essentials are researched and written internally.
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Mathieu Gosselin
@matgosselin · Mad Captain
@rrhoover @daniel_ravner Second startup this week to grab my idea.
Mine: http://flipside.webflow.io/donal... (Done 1 year ago, posted on product hunt but not accepted... why?? )
Theirs: https://www.theperspective.com/
Layout and manifesto look interestingly similar.
Is it just a coincidence?
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Mathieu Gosselin
@matgosselin · Mad Captain
@rrhoover @daniel_ravner https://www.producthunt.com/post... A bit of credit or an email before plagiarizing it would have been nice...
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Ryan Hoover
@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt
@matgosselin I missed Flipside! I'm getting a 404 when I try to visit the link on the PH post (http://www.flipside.news/).
Related: my all-time favorite Product Hunt comment by @benrbn. 😊
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Mathieu Gosselin
@matgosselin · Mad Captain
@rrhoover @benrbn I took it down due to a lack of traction... I suppose it was not the right timing...
Now it's still hosted on webflow though but no more domain name: http://flipside.webflow.io/
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Daniel Ravner
@daniel_ravner · Founder of The Perspective
@matgosselin @rrhoover I’ve worked for a good chunk of my career in the TV format industry. During that time I reviewed dozens of ideas, almost on a weekly basis. I’ve learned that ideas come in waves. Similar ideas come from different people at the same time for the simple reason we are all influenced by many of the same things. Given the dominance of the filter bubble phenomenon, I’ll be surprised if there aren’t 10 more startups trying to deal with it, in development, right now. I’ve done an extensive research before launching The Perspective (and the beta site last year, to test the idea and bring “proof” to my investors) I never came across your website! But given the enormity of the phenomenon were addressing I think there is room for all of us. Wishing you the best of luck going forward.
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Mathieu Gosselin
@matgosselin · Mad Captain
@daniel_ravner @rrhoover Sure. Maybe your designer made her research though. But Happy to help in any way I can! I'm good with new ideas and the mission is dear to me ;-)
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