We're a new publication chronicling the unstoppable rise of South Asia and South Asians

Hi PH 👋🏾, I’m Snigdha, founder of The Juggernaut. 🤩What we do: We release one new story a weekday and tell the untold South Asian stories that you need to know — from the Subtle Curry Traits Facebook group to comedian Hari Kondabolu to the erasure of Freddie Mercury’s brownness. We charge less than $5/month and new subscribers get a free week trial and we have an awesome PH discount in the works. 🤔Why I built this: I didn't see myself in the news: I’m Indian-American and grew up in New York. Being Indian wasn't cool growing up. With more South Asians in the news today, I realized I didn’t know what was going on in the region or with its people around the world. There was no global, inclusive, well-reported publication for South Asians, the fastest growing US demographic and the largest diaspora. 🚀How I started: Every weekend, as my side hustle, I’d write a weekly email newsletter curating the best articles on South Asia(ns) with my thoughts on a pressing issue, from the Harvard affirmative action lawsuit to South Asian representation in Crazy Rich Asians. The newsletter grew to the thousands. After doing this for a few months, I realized I was craving coverage I wasn't seeing in other publications. That’s why I decided to start The Juggernaut with our own reported stories. 📰Media is difficult. People like free content. We launched behind a paywall because it allows us to pay writers well and quickly. Happy to answer any questions/comments and can't wait to hear what you think! 🙌🏾Snigdha

QUICK UPDATE: We're excited to be offering Product Hunt members 10% off the annual subscription for the first year :) 🥳Just click on the link to our website on the sidebar to visit our site from PH

@snigdha while I admire your vision, I find a good portion of your reporting to be very triggering because it is sensationalized and full of misinformation. I sure hope the quality of information will increase. What I see right now is that sensational storytelling is overriding good research. You have written about some topics that I am very familiar with, and they have been highly misreported. I have messaged you about them privately but I have not received a response. I do believe spreading misinformation can further bring harm to minority communities and hence find some of your work dangerous.

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Pros:

Great writing, great content

Cons:

An app pushing stories would be graet

A few sample headlines: Can Netflix Save Indian Television? Fighting to Make India's Cinemas Disability Friendly

Pros:

Interesting content in digestible sizes about a part of the world I didn't know much about, but always wanted to keep up with

Cons:

Have some version I can download easily (PDF? app?) to read offline while I'm on the Muni

What a hack website! Their subscription cancellation doesn’t work and had the audacity to charge me multiple times after cancelling. Absolute scam, stay far away!

Cancellation process is opaque and frequently results in unexpected charges. As a result, long-term user satisfaction is negatively impacted. "Gotcha billing" is not a great revenue strategy.

What a hack website! Their subscription cancellation doesn’t work and had the audacity to charge me multiple times after cancelling. Absolute scam, stay far away!

Cancellation process is opaque and frequently results in unexpected charges. As a result, long-term user satisfaction is negatively impacted. "Gotcha billing" is not a great revenue strategy.

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