Show HN: Twitter Like News App

[sfbaker7]

https://www.airvue.news/

Hi everyone,

My name is Stuart and I've been solo developing a news app (and now newsletter) for the past half a year or so.

tl;dr (current status): an app with a Twitter like feed of news events. The posts are 1-2 sentences, only actual events (no opinion, analysis, roundup, evergreen, etc), categorized into feeds, and tagged (lets you dig wikis or find events for a given entity). There is also a newsletter I just launched that is a bit cleaner in terms of UI, but with less features.

longer: My goal is to make it easier to stay informed and access information (not such a hot take that news and media suffers from a UX issue). What that will look like in the long term, I can't possibly know. Although I have many theories, all I can do is iterate and keep an open mind. My first attempt at cracking this is to shorten the unit of information from an article to an event, thus saving the reader valuable time and mental energy. If you want to read more about how I do this check out https://www.airvue.blog/p/approach

I'd love to hear your feedback on the idea and/or app (forgive the janky UI).

Thanks, Stuart

p.s. if this sounds like something you'd like to work on, don't hesitate to reach out. I have an engineering background but would love someone else to hack with

newsletter link if interested: https://www.airvue.app/subscribe

[ohong]

This is awesome! In a world inundated with endless "hot takes," it has become increasingly difficult to stay informed on things I actually care about, filter out things I don't, and engage with the news in an intentional & productive way.

Airvue is a breath of fresh air! I've been using the beta the last couple months and it's helped me opt out of doom-scrolling, rage bait, etc. If Twitter is empty carbs, Airvue is a delicious green smoothie.

I'm curious if you have any plans for readers to add their own news sources to the feed? For example, I'd love to be able to follow my local news, and maybe more niche industry-specific publications, using Airvue. Thx!

[sfbaker7 → ohong]

Thank you, love the analogy haha.

That's not in the roadmap right now, but you can always reach out and suggest a feed for us to include (e.g. a San Francisco feed). From there, we'd look for SF news sources to input to our BE.

For some background context, we're still at the point where adding feeds is a decently intensive process (some more than others). It's a process were making more and more automatic, but for now there is still lots to work on.

[themodelplumber]

Hi Stuart, thanks for sharing your app, I'm looking forward to checking it out further.

I appreciated your write-up here and wondered if you've considered adding a bit more of a name & background narrative approach like this somewhere on the app website?

I usually try to get a feel for who's building an app and why, and somehow ended up reading the entire ToS and Privacy Policy looking for a name, a brief story, anything along those lines.

While I'm glad I didn't exactly find "we here at CIA care about your data" anywhere :-) ...I hope you see what I'm getting at. Your story and goal are very relatable. Thanks again & congrats on this launch.

[sfbaker7 → themodelplumber]

Thanks for the comment. Yes, that's a great idea - agreed that it's very important to get the narrative across. I'll add an about me + some blog resources

[jeffery300]

Thanks for sharing! Push notifications have been a great source of short form news. Look forward to where you take this