Hey there HN! I'm the creator of Nano News. It's a fairly simple idea that I found didn't seem to exist. I'd love to hear some constructive feedback and I'm available to answer any questions or concerns you may have.
That would be a great idea, I should have done something like that before posting. I'll work on it for the future, but for now feel free to use a throwaway email as there is no email validation as of yet.
Nice work. I worked on a product that ended up tilted in this direction once. Meltwater was one of the earlier names in this space and did well out of it.
Enterprises are willing to pay for this type of information (specifically about their clients), but it’s hard to be 10x better than google alerts, other than offering “enterprise integration” which can get slow.
I'm not curious enough to register and try it out. I might, If I have some way to be sure it is not garbage and waste of time - screenshot at least, maybe simple interactive demo on the homepage
Completely understandable, if you're concerned with sharing your personal information then feel free to use a fake/disposable email, as there is not validation for that (yet).
If nothing else I've learned that I definitely need to have a workable demo available before sharing this elsewhere. It'll be #1 on my TODO list. It's nearly bed-time for me now, but I'll get started on it as soon as tomorrow. Thank you for your feedback!
FWIW I think that unless the value is immediately obvious without experiencing it directly a demo is helpful but ultimately inadequate. I think you'd want something like the Reddit onboarding model, where you can use the service anonymously to an extent but eventually are compelled to create an account for some other value-add that it turns out you really want on top of the thing you were using anonymously. For Reddit that's things like being able to comment/post (or collect karma I guess) or being able to personalize the content by including or excluding specific subreddits from your "feed".
In your case maybe that's something like you can view other people's (anonymized) nano-news feeds, or feeds on specific topic you know to be popular, but you need to create an account to create a custom feed or more convieninetly aggregate feeds or whatever.
I don't really know where you are trying to go with this though, and you've thought about it more than I have, so maybe I'm missing the point. But that's what I think I would do.
Thanks for the advice, I agree with your assessment. I'll figure something out and will make onboarding a smoother and more palatable process than it is now. It seems like that's my biggest issue at the moment.
I have done something similar but is public access and only for tech related news. [0]. Tag cloud is generated for popular news items. That way just with one glance one can check out trending news and focus on that. Idea is to spend less then 10 minutes to consume the tech news spectrum.
[0] https://embit.ca/
No it isn't just a simple list of the top search results. It should be filtered by results that are considered "News". It's like simply that there isn't much real "news" on Python Data Science that's been published in the past 24 hours, so it feels the gap with whatever can be found.
On the page where you add new inputs, I have a list of tips and advice for maximizing results relevancy. It's hard for me to automate what "better" is for a product like this.
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Enterprises are willing to pay for this type of information (specifically about their clients), but it’s hard to be 10x better than google alerts, other than offering “enterprise integration” which can get slow.
Best of luck!
If nothing else I've learned that I definitely need to have a workable demo available before sharing this elsewhere. It'll be #1 on my TODO list. It's nearly bed-time for me now, but I'll get started on it as soon as tomorrow. Thank you for your feedback!
In your case maybe that's something like you can view other people's (anonymized) nano-news feeds, or feeds on specific topic you know to be popular, but you need to create an account to create a custom feed or more convieninetly aggregate feeds or whatever.
I don't really know where you are trying to go with this though, and you've thought about it more than I have, so maybe I'm missing the point. But that's what I think I would do.
Is there a way to reach out to you and discuss this further?
I am on Twitter @twishmay.