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Ask HN: Feedback on my Idea?

2 pointsby bluerailalmost 11 years ago
So, I am planning to build this tool for some days now but not sure whether similar app already exists or not.. Even if there isn&#x27;t, I doubt if there is audience for this concept..<p>Concept is : News Topic search:<p>A simple search box where you&#x27;ll enter a news topic and it provides a timeline of incidents related to the topic.. It&#x27;ll basically comes up with the news articles that surfaced and articles that are once trending and conclusion articles and more.. Search terms like &quot;Malaysia flight MH370&quot; &quot;Ebola Breakout&quot;<p>What do you thing of it? worth pursuing?

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benologistalmost 11 years ago
Google Trends does some of this - <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=microsoft" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=microsoft</a>. Letters on the chart are headlines. There&#x27;s obviously tremendous room for improvement!
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bengali3almost 11 years ago
how would you differentiate from: <a href="http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ebola" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.google.com&#x2F;trends&#x2F;explore#q=ebola</a><p>just more links to the articles?
sp332almost 11 years ago
Is this an aggregator of real-time news, or a curator of old news?
lutuspalmost 11 years ago
&gt; A simple search box where you&#x27;ll enter a news topic and it provides a timeline of incidents related to the topic.<p>Ask yourself whether your app will do this better than Google does. This is not to discourage you, but to ask some hard questions -- to succeed, your app would have to produce something that Google&#x27;s search engine cannot.<p>&gt; What do you thing of it?<p>I <i>thing</i> you need a better, more contextual, spell checker.
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