Hey HN ! I built Bricka because TBH I’m not super invested in politics, but still want to keep up with world news and noticef a weird issue during daily updates.

Depending on the news outlet, location I was in at the time, etc, not only the opinions of the news was expressed differently, but entire facts about the same story.

One article focused on economic impact downstream, while another focuses on political conflict. But they’re covering the same event.

Of course that’s how news reporting goes. But I found it frustrating to not realize this until halfway through reading the article, and often after paying to pass their paywall already.

So I tried my hand at building Bricka, where I attempted to build an RSS Feed into top outlets, and analyze the bias they introduce into the same story to give myself the full picture before diving deeper into any one.

As a student, I do need a way to fund the pipeline, but I tried to keep it modest but of course am open to feedback about pricing adjustments. I did create a code for 1 year, free lifetime access for the first 15 people: ‘HACKERNEWS’ .

I hope it’s a product directly relevant for the first 15 who are open to helping test and continue to give feedback for me to improve the product :)

My goal wasn’t to label sources objectively biased or not, but to give a bigger high-level picture of the framing and lean they might introduce.

If you’ve made it this far; I’d love to get some thoughts. This initial build is definitely more naive. I’m trying my hand at using AI to automate some classification.

I’d really love and appreciate constructive feedback/input, especially since this is a topic that can be debated endlessly:

1. Do you think bias should be surfaced explicitly as I attempt it now, or let readers decide for themselves and have some kind of voting/polling ? A combination? 1. b) I worry this can be skewed depending on the audience that ends up on the platform. But I suppose using AI now has a similar effect depending on what it was trained on. 2. What other sources should be included that are not the ‘top mainstream’ outlets? 3. Do you see utility in this as a daily news tool? I’ve noticed it decreased my read time by letting me go directly to the sources that frame it how I want; centre perspective, objective facts. Not sure I am the ‘average’ world news reader profile though.

Curious to hear what you think! I’m a first-time poster, so sorry in advance if I did something wrong- any and all feedback is appreciated and

I am actively hoping to improve this as it is something I will use myself, but would love if it continues to provide value for others as well and can sustain itself :)