Comment by jaredwiener
1 month ago
Building a new kind of news site, featuring updates from primary sources.
We're constantly pulling info from official sources, and using AI to group and summarize into stories, and continue to share reporting from trusted, vetted journalists.
The result is news with the speed and breadth of getting updates straight from the source, and the perspective and context that reporting provides.
Still ramping up, but I'd love to hear feedback:
Need is valid. The site is showing mostly flood watch warnings - maybe cluster topics? Also don’t mess with the scroll bar - maybe the ads are doing it, but it froze and wouldn’t move down for a while.
Thank you -- yes, the non-signed in front page needs some work. There's a lot of flood warnings, but if you choose topics with an account it should be a better experience.
And thank you for flagging the scroll thing. I hadn't seen it, but will check.
Didnt quite get this - if the only value prop is getting updates straight from the source (trusted/vetted journalists), what use is AI here, except for summaries perhaps?
AI isn't really the draw, it's more of a tool that helps on the backend.
That said, it's both combining various updates into a cohesive timeline of a story, writing the summaries, and assigning it an urgency level which helps in sorting and some other tasks.
Looks good so far. The AI summary button is nice but hard to distinguish from the background.
V cool, this is a perfect llm use case
thank you -- great to hear!