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Shroomie
AI-powered news made fun and habit-forming
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AI-powered news made fun and habit-forming
283 followers
Shroomie is an AI-powered news app that makes reading fun, effortless and habit-forming. Every story is bite-sized and interactive, and every day you read, you grow a mushroom garden — turning daily news into a game. AI handles everything behind the scenes, from sourcing stories and generating visuals to personalizing your feed.
Hey Product Hunt! 👋
Every news product we tried was solving what to show us, not how it felt to read.
AI has given us smarter curation and better summaries, but the reading experience remains fundamentally... boring to us.
So we asked: what if reading the news actually felt fun?
Shroomie makes news bite-sized and interactive. We designed an immersive flow where you can effortlessly skim through your feed, react, and deep dive on topics of your interest.
Every day you read, you grow a mushroom garden. We believe the best habits aren't built through discipline — they're built through play. After every session, you walk away with something real: a garden that grew, and a mind that did too.
AI powers everything behind the scenes — sourcing stories, generating visuals and summaries, and deep-dive research. A personalization engine combines ML and LLMs to curate a feed tailored to each reader.
Check us out on App Store! This is our v1, and we're shaping what comes next with early adopters. Try it and let us know what you'd change!
this is good for micro learning, I would like to know how do you profile user or are you sending same news to everyone. and what is the frequency and how do you choose the frequency ?
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@myrto_skourletou Thanks! We love mushrooms because they are calm and whimsical — the opposite energy of breaking-news anxiety.
Our main audience is young professionals, but Shroomie really works for anyone who wants to stay informed without the heaviness of traditional news apps.
For every story, we pull from 20+ authoritative sources (Reuters, Bloomberg, etc.) to ensure thorough coverage and minimize bias.
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@greatll can users select the sources they want feed from - i assume its all set up within the app, correct?
@myrto_skourletou Great point! It's on our roadmap to support selecting custom sources — should be available soon! Stay tuned!
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@greatll sounds cool! thank you - looking forward to growing a garden! :)
Just downloaded it. How granular does the personalization get? Can I tell it I want more tech and zero politics, or is it more of a black box?
Great question! We have three layers:
You rank categories like business, tech, and world news.
You can use an AI prompt to describe exactly what you want for deeper personalization (enabled for early users right now).
We analyze your reading patterns and adapts your feed with ML — so it gets smarter the more you use it.
Congrats! How deep does the personalization go? Can I control what topics I see, or does it learn on its own over time?
Congrats on the launch! I'm in love with your mascot and couldn't resist leaving a comment 😅🍄
Where did the metaphor of growing a mushroom garden come from?
@foxecila Thanks so much! Two reasons actually:
Our team genuinely loves mushrooms — in the wild and on the plate 😄
The calm, quirky energy of mushrooms is the perfect counterbalance to breaking-news anxiety, which is exactly the vibe we wanted for the app
The mushroom characters are super adorable! Were they AI-generated, or designed by an illustrator?
@yi_he6 Thanks! Those were actually done by an illustrator friend of ours. We tried AI-generated mushrooms first but they just couldn't match the hand-drawn quality.