There are so many different kinds of products that are up-and-coming and releasing nowadays. Even if you’re using RSS reader, checking Facebook stream 20 times per day, and visiting homepages of your favorite blogs - you miss some important news/leaks/rumors about upcoming product you're interested in...
So, if shortly:
1. Many upcoming and releasing products
2. Even more online sources (some are trustworthy and some not very) who are constantly publishing news articles about these products
3. Each of us is interested (waiting) in some of the upcoming products but not ALL
We thought it would make sense to build Waitfeed – a website (apps in progress) that combines and covers each of the above-mentioned points in its own way.
2. We’re fetching the latest news from various online sources, but not from every. Online sources for crawling are handpicked to avoid any “fake news.” For this point, we’ll rely on our community to help us by reporting any spam/fake news. Also, we expect to get suggestions about which publishers are trustworthy and will add them to our crawling.
3. You can choose which products you are interested in and subscribe only to those you care about. Then you’ll be informed about trending (or recent) news as soon as the news appears online (yes, our crawlers are working hard 24/7 :)).
This is it. Our idea is to keep it simple and make it work, so now is the time to get some early feedback from you folks. We’re open to any suggestions, critiques, questions, and of course upvotes :)
Hmm nice idea. Could be useful to keep your eye on some upcoming stuff. I see that news are "Trending" and "Recent" - how do you determine which news articles are trending?
We want people to vote for or comment on a story because they personally find it intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend have something to promote.
Thank you for your feedback. Trending news articles are actually those which have gained the most attention on social networks over the past few days. Our crawlers checking each article url and measuring how it is popular in social networks + how many clicks received on waitfeed.
So, if shortly:
1. Many upcoming and releasing products
2. Even more online sources (some are trustworthy and some not very) who are constantly publishing news articles about these products
3. Each of us is interested (waiting) in some of the upcoming products but not ALL
We thought it would make sense to build Waitfeed – a website (apps in progress) that combines and covers each of the above-mentioned points in its own way.
1. News on Waitfeed is categorized for each specific upcoming product (eg. http://waitfeed.com/trending/news/iphone-8)
2. We’re fetching the latest news from various online sources, but not from every. Online sources for crawling are handpicked to avoid any “fake news.” For this point, we’ll rely on our community to help us by reporting any spam/fake news. Also, we expect to get suggestions about which publishers are trustworthy and will add them to our crawling.
3. You can choose which products you are interested in and subscribe only to those you care about. Then you’ll be informed about trending (or recent) news as soon as the news appears online (yes, our crawlers are working hard 24/7 :)).
This is it. Our idea is to keep it simple and make it work, so now is the time to get some early feedback from you folks. We’re open to any suggestions, critiques, questions, and of course upvotes :)