Newsdrop

Digital newspaper with minimalist news summaries

5 followers

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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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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6yr 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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6yr 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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6yr 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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6yr ago

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

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6yr ago

I really liked the whole concept of it. The UI seems pretty amazing. But how do you plan to evaluate the main news of a particular day?

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

We consciously tried to avoid automating the news selection / evaluation process. This is done by human editors who determine the most important news using a variety of criteria such as popularity, depth of coverage, social media buzz, and their own assessment on the importance.

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6yr ago

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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6yr ago

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

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6yr 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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6yr 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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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@tarush_jain Will do! Thanks for your support!

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6yr ago

Really nice and neat design. Do you incorporate AI in curating or summarizing the content? or is it purely handmade? It is really high quality.

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@firasalmanna Hi Firas, thanks for the kind words! The writing itself handmade without any use of AI, though during the curation process we do have tech-based checks with regards to sources and their potential bias.

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6yr 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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6yr 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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6yr 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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6yr ago

Japan Rail Planner

Really like this idea as I find news to be a bit overwhelming at times. I particularly like that it only updates 4 times a day as, so I wouldn't feel the need to be constantly checking it. Skimming through some concise, curated news stories a couple times a day sounds like the perfect alternative to constantly checking my social media to see what news headlines/clickbait some algorithms have decided I'll probably click on! Hope the launch goes well.

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6yr ago

Newsdrop

Maker

@jacowl Good to hear you like the idea! This is pretty much what we had in mind when we started working on this!

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6yr ago