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I guess I&#x27;ll be the first to deliver negative feedback.<p>Technically, it&#x27;s well-designed. It&#x27;s a fine-looking product that is easy and compelling to use. The key-point summary is a good feature. That&#x27;s all granted.<p>However, I think this is a bad product to build. The past weeks and months have shown us that we probably need more long-form content and less short-form content, where the loss of details robs us of important nuances. Just reading the headlines -- and that is what this product allows you to do very efficiently -- does not necessarily make the user better-informed, but it dangerously gives the user the probably-false impression that they are now actually informed.<p>I would encourage you to think not just about the problems you would like your product to <i>solve</i>, but also the problems that your product might <i>contribute to</i>.

For anyone else interested in the code, I believe these are the repos -<p>Backend <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SalmaanP&#x2F;news_backend" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SalmaanP&#x2F;news_backend</a><p>Frontend <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SalmaanP&#x2F;news_website" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;SalmaanP&#x2F;news_website</a>

Very nice looking - I wonder if the India link could be changeable to a geographical region more interesting to the reader (with maybe India as the default).

how was the summary points done? is it through processing the text through ML or Reddit does provide with key summary points or some 3rd party service?<p>How accurate is the summary points?

If this pulls news stories from reddit, it&#x27;s going to be very biased, US centric, and left leaning. Great concept, just questioning using reddit as a source.

Very clean web app. I like the layout.<p>I personally don&#x27;t use Reddit very much after their warrant canary issue .. and the CEO that edited comments. Kinda lame since the only similar alternative is kinda a cespool for racism <i>cough</i>cough<i>Goats</i>cough<i>.<p>Thanks for opening up the source too. I can see a lot of potential uses for this. You might want to add vim swap and </i>.log to your .gitignore though. :-P

Looks pretty neat! I will take a look at the site over the coming days and report back with feedback :)<p>Side comment, I am wondering why you&#x27;ve bothered with putting your email as: salmaanpehlari[at]gmail[dot]com considering you&#x27;ve got the raw email address in the source code of that anchor.

great idea! I personally love the keypoints part, I like to stay updated with news but not so much read every single article, so this is great for me. My feedback:<p>- Work a bit more on the design, specially on mobile. On my iPhone 6s Plus, when I open the page I can only see 1 article, what I like about HN or Reddit is that you can quickly scan with your eyes what you are interested on, as a list. If that is your target audience then you should probably give a similar experience.<p>- Not a bit fan of the whole &quot;popup&quot; to see the bullet points, I would hide and show them under the title<p>- I would add an icon to click directly to the reddit comments next to the button<p>- I think this is a great site to be turn into an mobile app<p>Keep up the good work!

Impressive! I like the clean layout, and with KeyPoints, the page isn&#x27;t nearly as ad-infested as it could be.<p>One suggestion: Have you considered adding the Reddit thumbnail to each article? May help break up the page a bit.

Aren&#x27;t you the author of samacharbot2? Good stuff mate.

Looks very nice, may I ask why you don&#x27;t use https? Setting up the certificate should be easy and free with letsencrypt.

Cool. Lose the giant headlines, lose the columns, move the reddit button to where the green button is now, lose the modal.

With the demise of Breaking News (breakingnews.com) I have been looking for a simple, clean global headline aggregator.<p>News! isn&#x27;t a drop-in replacement (I liked the &#x27;curated&#x27; aspects of BN), but News! is going on my short list of replacements.

Any feedback is appreciated!

nice work, good job. whenever something happens in turkey, i visit &#x2F;r&#x2F;worldnews to see how it is reflected in the world media and perceived by other people. with your tool, it&#x27;s going to be a lot easier for me to do so.<p>with that said, there&#x27;s a bug with the next button. &#x2F;r&#x2F;world is selected, i search turkey, i go down and press next, it brings back the home of &#x2F;r&#x2F;world. same happens without a search keyword as well. (or maybe there&#x27;s just no data)

Loving it. The bullet summaries are very well done.

Love the whole experience! Key point summary is nifty; would appreciate a technical blog post :)

This is great. Really clean and easy to use. Awesome work.

This was exactly what I was looking for. Excellent.

Nice work , fellow spartan.

This is great. Awesome job.

What&#x27;s the point of reading this and not Reddit itself?

Nice work!