I got fed up with the news reader apps out there so I decided to make my own. Its a simple concept where it tracks all your favorite news sources for new posts and the social shares it received. Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes. It's not meant to be alternative to HN, just a focused way to track your favorite sources. Please try it out and let me know what do you think,<p><a href="http://telescope.surf/" rel="nofollow">http://telescope.surf/</a><p>Note: you can do 'Add to Homescreen' on mobile to make it as an app.<p>Please leave a feedback or any feature wishlist you may have.<p>Thanks!
Over 50% of the posts are Trump. I would really like to see someone make an app that focuses on filtering through the click-bait articles we're fed to actually break news into important events and subjects.<p>I guess I don't consider "most shares" a good way to rank. Bush, Obama, then Trump always are at the top unless some other celebrity does something big.<p>Looks really nice, good job!
Today, after the Mexico city earthquake, there where 50 buildings collapsed, probably hundreds of people dead, and a volcano erupting... but your "news" site doesn't show any of it... sorry but your site is a miss
Are there any copyright issues with you showing the full article content?<p>I understand that the headlines, images and blurbs are from public RSS feeds, but I'm almost certain the article content doesn't, not at least for many of these.
Two news sources that I'd like to see added are memeorandum.com (the best algorithmicly generated news feed I've found) and drudgereport.com (whose politics I disagree with but it's a hugely influential site and I try to avoid trapping myself in a bubble).<p>I haven't found a news reader type app that handles those two sites, so I find myself wasting huge amounts of time hitting those two pages and trying to skim their entire link list looking for the couple new articles since the last time I visited, guessing wrong, and re-opening articles I've already read twice before. I'd love to be able to use your site to newsreader those two.<p>(Memorandum is tricky, as it groups related articles together because so many news articles feed from the same source report, and that greatly reduces needlessly redundant reading. Even if you could only easily add drudge, that would be a huge time savings for folks like me)
Very nice. Two features I would like are tabs next to the "Today" tab that say "Yesterday" or maybe "48 Hours" and another that says "This week" or "Last week."<p>I often miss the news for a day (too busy) or a week (traveling/camping) and then want to catch up. Also sometimes I avoid the news for a day because I'm avoiding a sporting event spoiler. Most websites/newspapers are geared toward today and don't let you easily see what they looked like yesterday or a week ago. Even better would be allowing a time range and being able to see the top news during that time period.<p>Some basic filtering would be nice too. For example, I might want to see a politics-free feed, but right now that would require looking at three different categories. It would be nice if each category had a checkbox next to it, and clicking on the label selected the category and clicking on the checkbox deactivated it when no category is selected. Also it would be nice to be able to add search strings that would remove items, so I could add "Trump" to a list and not see any articles with that in the headline (or maybe in the summary). As it is now under Business I'd still get a lot of Trump-related news.<p>Also curious why you chose to have some feeds off by default.
Any plans for the ability to add custom sources? I'm assuming that's not a trivial thing to add, but definitely something I'd be interested in.
When you get chance please wrap it is a desktop app, it's the sort of app I'd keep running like Tweetbot.<p>Oh and well done!<p>A competitor to Google News is great. The main problem I have with Google News is that it is always a few steps behind Twitter. It's really good if you're out of the loop, but behind the times if you're tracking a new story.
I really like this! The only comment I'd make is to make the sidebar static so it stays there when you scroll down. Would be nice to switch topics quickly after I'm done skimming through headlines of another topic. Other than that I love it.
I love this! Desktop view could use more page width, but I love the concept. Adding in custom RSS URLs as sources could be a good direction to take as well.
> Then it ranks it HN/Reddit style using social shares as upvotes.<p>Where do you get the social shares? I don't see any share buttons on the webpage?
I have been using Twitter lists, and simply adding the "breaking news" twitter accounts for a number of news sources...and this seems similar to that...however, I like this better! Great job! The only thing i would suggest is as others have noted: you might want to enable the feature for adding custom sources. Cheers!
So it's PWA? So you must be able to send Push Notifications to Android devices? I'd be happy about it.<p>Ability to swipe out cards?<p>Nevertheless, A very clean minimalistic design choice.
That’s not news. Content that’s popular on Reddit is not news that’s important, it’s just the modern equivalent of pop culture (which may or may not encompass actual news).