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@finikk @kriherdmytro we really appreciate your support! As a token of appreciation, we want to offer you a special bonus - besides web and mobile, you can also consume the Otherweb as a free newsletter: https://otherweb.news/bonus ; it's a daily selection of the top-10 articles of the day, sent to you each morning. Cheers!
Finally! 99% of my content consumption happens on the go and there is an app for everything these days, so I've been waiting for this product to become available in app store to get the best and most enjoyable experience when getting my daily news. Congratulations on the launch!
@anastassia_fink thank you! Yes we're trying to cover all the bases - web, mobile, and we'll even have a newsletter soon :)
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Very interesting app and concept. It would great to see this grow to the point that publishers feel incentivized to publish less digital junk to avoid being filtered out of Otherweb.
@chrismore thanks Chris, indeed that is the hope. If we make one platform that shows there's demand for high-quality content, the externality will be that all platforms will start rewarding higher-quality content.
@otherweb I was just thinking, if it is free, it means one of the following
1. I am the product
2. Gathering users in first phase, then ask for money later
3. It is free because it is a hobby project, it lasts while it lasts, it can disappear when you need to focus on other things, or your interest in maintaining it fades
4. I am missing something
@fancsiki or 4. We actually want to make sure we understand who the users are, how they're using the product, what value they get out of it, and what monetization option will be the least intrusive/annoying to them - before we enable monetization. It's best to bring value to people first, before you ask for value back.
Trying it now, looks pretty good so far. What other features do you plan to add?
@nikolay_paratyne You've probably noticed that we have news, podcasts, research studies, books, online courses, etc. We think the "holy grail" is to be able to navigate these layers seamlessly, to explore the same concept across the information space - zoom in, zoom out, peek sideways etc. That's our next step!
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Excellent work, congrats guys! I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
@new_user_ff684a94d3 thanks Vladimir! Let me know what you think once you use it - any comments / feature requests would be appreciated!
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Congratulations! I had a bit of an insight into this before it launched (as a beta tester), so it's great to see how far along it has come. The summaries are really polished. The headlines are accurate. And the filtering is on-point.
@new_user_767037c969 thanks Roman, yes we're making progress all the time! Thank you for your help!
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@new_user_db9cbf64cf twitter feed is essentially unfiltered, so most of it ends up being junk. We try to be as quick as twitter (by scraping sources in real time, including twitter itself), but we apply heavy filtering to everything to make sure only quality articles make it through.
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Great to see this as a mobile app now. Don't know about others but 80% of the news I consume is from my phone!
@florin_biro that's the feedback we got last time, and.. we listened :) If you have any feedback on this one now, we'd love to hear it!
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Congratulations, Alex!
Great improvements since last launch. These mobile apps were really lacking because usually I'm reading news on my mobile, not PC. And now I have it :)
I definitely like these news and op-eds feeds. This summary text feels very convenient than reading a lot of unnecessary noise. By the way, these feeds is a great tool to find new news sources without the need leaving the app.
Few my wishes for a further functionality:
- add more customization options for the feeds. Current functionality is enough to start, but sometimes I really want to see something specific.
- add more news categories. Personally I'm missing games and movies, but I don't mind to see more categories - I like to find for new stuff.
- add something like discussions. Sometimes I want to read discussion about current trending topic, and sometimes I want to participate in this discussion.
By the way, have you ever considered functionality like user news? So that anyone can join and start writing their own news and op-eds. Something like mix of personal blog and discussions. I know it is usually not related to news, but still it looks interesting for me to read articles of ordinary users.
Anyway, great success! Keep going, I'm looking for more interesting stuff from you in future.
Best wishes,
Sergey.
@new_user_191d987f0c Sergey, thank you for the detailed breakdown! Yes customization options and more granular categories/topics are definitely next on the roadmap!
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Just heard @florin_biro talking about this! I can't wait to give it a try. Definitely seems right up my alley.
@florin_biro @britt_joiner thanks Britt! Would love to hear any comments/feedback you might have.
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@julius_dev thanks Karina! I really appreciate it. The news feed is where most of our users spend their time, it's the key feature.
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Thank you, I've been playing with it already. maybe let users w/o creating an account first?
@fishmanalex we've tried that with the website, and the result was that quite a few users used it without registering, and then some of them complained their settings aren't synchronized across devices and their podcast subscription list is empty :) So our conclusion for now is to follow https://andrewchen.com/the-highe... basically - if we know the UX is much better for registered users, we should require all users to register.
@fishmanalex i don't pretend to know the answer on this one :) We just know the opposite approach didn't work well so far, so.. we decided to listen to Andrew Chen and see what happens.
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