Voronoi is a free new app from the data storytelling experts at Visual Capitalist that puts the world's most interesting data at your fingertips. With dozens of data creators and transparent sourcing, the app is available on both Android and iOS.

Hi Product Hunt community! 👋 I'm excited to introduce Voronoi, a platform that makes the world's most interesting data easily discoverable through stunning visuals. Background Starting 13 years ago, I began bootstrapping the data storytelling website Visual Capitalist from scratch, with the goal of making data more understandable for everyone, especially around global trends relating to investing, business, demographics, and the global economy. But after doing this for a decade, the world has changed substantially, and our vision has evolved with it: 1. The world is awash in information, which has created an "information overload" dynamic. Available information is growing exponentially, yet people are having trouble discovering the right data and insights. 2. Like many of you, we have seen the world grow more and more polarized. We see a growing need for transparent, verifiably-sourced data at a large scale. One that people can rely on for trusted information about the world. 3. We realized we can't make a big dent in the data ecosystem by ourselves. Luckily, we've simultaneously witnessed the rise of many other incredible data storytellers and sources (Examples: Our World in Data, USAFacts, James Eagle, Chartr, Statista, etc.) as well as awesome indie solo creators. We want to enable them to do more! 4. Finally, although many of these creators post their work on existing social platforms, there is currently no ecosystem that caters to the data creator community exclusively. We believe creating this "home" for data storytellers is crucial. So over the last two years, we've been building our data storytelling platform Voronoi with all this in mind, and today we launch it here! We'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. What's Voronoi? It's a free platform that aims to make the world's most interesting data more discoverable, by putting data stories from top creators in one easy place. What are other key things to know about Voronoi? - It's built for data lovers and data creators. For each visualization on the platform, you can see the data behind it, including the original data source and notes. We (and our community) help verify all data and sourcing, to ensure data is reliable and trustworthy - We see this as a creator economy platform, where eventually we can provide monetization options to third-party data creators, allowing them to focus more on their craft - We also see it as enabling data discovery across a wide variety of topics and subjects (news, current events, culture, politics, etc.), however you'll notice if you download the app now we still have largely a business/tech/investing focus. This is a "crossing the chasm" moment that will have to happen later How's Voronoi funded? We started working on the platform after a Kickstarter round from Visual Capitalist fans and subscribers in 2022 (link included in links section), and then we've bootstrapped additionally from there. We have not taken any venture capital funding to this point for either Visual Capitalist or Voronoi. Why did you choose the name Voronoi? The platform is named to honor Ukrainian mathematician Georgy Voronoy, who popularized the Voronoi diagram. It's a concept used in data visualization, among many other fields. What's in the product pipeline? It's still early days, and we have a lot of work to do. Here are key things in the short-to-medium term pipeline: - Launch of a web app version that fully ties into existing mobile platform - Motion graphic videos and slideshows - Ability to deeply customize your own feed and algorithm (currently the algo is very simple, but it will have to evolve as we have more data/visualizations on there) - Adding monetization options for creators - A focus on data discoverability (contextual and visual search options, AI-assisted, etc.) - Dark mode (of course) Thank you for your time! I'll be available to answer questions on anything you like (about Voronoi or VC) starting at 8am PDT! I also have two key people from our product team (Nick and Armen) that will be available to answer questions too. We look forward to and appreciate your feedback.

Congratulations on the launch of Voronoi! @jeff_desjardins Are there any plans to integrate Voronoi with educational platforms or institutions to help spread data literacy?

Thanks for the question @ashikhameed Absolutely, and I think there are a couple threads that tie in here. 1. Voronoi will always have a free option so that any student, no matter where they live or what access they have to school, can get access to as much data as we have on the platform. 2. Eventually our aim is to offer educational subscriptions to schools/platforms. Imagine a professor curating a feed that students can subscribe to that contains data to explore for a particular course. And as new datasets pop up, profs can add these to the feed in real-time 3. Educational institutions are also great sources of data through their research, and since our goal is to make data more discoverable, we will want to incorporate those sources as well. IMO the two keys for data literacy are: 1) free access, and 2) making people want to look and learn from data. Not everyone is a data nerd, but by having a focus on interesting visualizations, we are much more likely to capture someone's attention and keep their attention so they gain that literacy

I'm enjoying the Voronoi app so far and am excited to see motion graphics on it! I wonder if including the ability to do infographic and animation voiceovers could be a worthwhile addition in the future too.

@govind_bhutada Hi Govind! Thanks for the support. Do you mean being able to record voiceovers for motion graphics within the app, like as an editing/composing feature?

@govind_bhutada @nickroutley Would be cool to be able to highlight insights on a visual/dataset in this or some other way!

Hey @nickroutley and @niccolo_conte! Yes, I think giving creators an option to record voiceovers and provide some insights (or even a walkthrough) on their data/infographic could be cool! Especially for infographics on complex topics that need some extra handholding. In a way, these would be similar to some of the infographic walkthrough reels on VC's instagram (e.g. https://www.instagram.com/reel/C...) Users could choose to listen to the voiceovers while viewing the infographics, for a bit of an immersive/interactive audio-visual experience :)

@govind_bhutada Totally agreed - it's just the way that UGC is evolving (or already evolved) so would be great to see something like this here. Especially when dealing with data, sometimes a bit of verbal elaboration is super useful for added context, and better engagement with audiences.

@niccolo_conte @govind_bhutada Thanks! That's an interesting idea. In the future, we plan to expand out the functionality of our creator dashboard with all kinds of tools that will help creators do their storytelling with data.

Congratulations on the launch of Voronoi, and kudos for championing data storytelling @jeff_dodds ! 🎉 The focus on making complex data easily understandable and accessible is crucial in today's information-saturated world. I'm particularly intrigued by how Voronoi plans to support and monetize independent data creators. Could you share more about the specific monetization options you're considering for creators?

Thanks @manan_gupta19 Yes, to me this is a crucial aspect of making the platform work. The vision is that as Voronoi grows, that users can discover data on a very wide variety of topics. Many thousands of datasets and visualizations. But the only way we can do that is if we build a strong community of data-focused creators that are contributing to the platform. Right now, we are doing this through something we call the Creator Program: https://www.visualcapitalist.com... It's not perfect, but it's a roundabout way to start monetizing things for creators before we get to better solutions. The quick version is: if we like a post on Voronoi, we get permission to also publish on Visual Capitalist, and then pay the creator $500 USD. (Then we run ads against it to make up for that cost) However, once we build up the audience side of Voronoi, the plan is to create a monetization suite for creators that includes multiple options: 1. Licensing: Users can license data visualizations to use in different settings. (i.e. reports, newsletters, publishing, books, etc.) 2. Revenue sharing: We want to give a percentage of our revenue (eventually through subscriptions for a "Pro" type product) to creators that add content into the platform. 3. Partnership Marketplace: We want companies to be able to partner with creators through a marketplace eventually. We have other ideas too. Maybe not all will work. 😅 But it's a fundamental part of what we're trying to do, because we believe that if creators succeed, then the platform will succeed.

@jeff_desjardins I like the philosophy Jeff. Hope this works out. All the best

@jeff_desjardins The monetization and compensation of creators would be game-changing! I really appreciate the vision and hard work you and the team is putting into this. The 3 ideas listed are exciting. This dedicated environment linking creators with businesses/companies is very much needed. Voronoi is a bridge. I have to say it again: GAME-CHANGING.

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Wow, social media that is actually insightful and not brain-rotting! Even though I do love some brain-rotting content lol. In all seriousness, this is a very interesting app and premise. The content on there is seriously amazing and I love that it includes the data sources, plus the actual data itself (it shows the table and links). Given how much misinformation is out there, this could be a really powerful tool that helps improve public discourse. The app itself definitely is still evolving in terms of functionality, but as long as the users keep publishing those types of graphics, I have no doubt Voronoi's userbase will explode and this is going to be the next big app.

Voronoi is a great, user-friendly social app to view and share data vizualizations. Lots of interesting and well-designed infographics, a great app to scroll through for data viz enthusiasts!

Have successfully replaced doomscrolling w data-scrolling!

Voronoi is a great, user-friendly social app to view and share data vizualizations. Lots of interesting and well-designed infographics, a great app to scroll through for data viz enthusiasts!

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