I created a powerful news shortening algorithm but I'm not sure how to utilize it
I've been developing my own algorithm for news shortening. Basically, it takes a news article from the site, does some calculations and spits out up to 5 the most important sentences. It looks like this https://excerptdaily.com/ It's a demo, I'm testing it out and upgrading.
I created it because I read news and I hate reading Bible-size articles full of unnecessary information just to find the main point
It has a purpose, it really does solve a problem:
- Save people's time
- Inform you as fast as possible
- Give you the main point of an article in 5 sentences
- Save you from clickbait or half clickbait titles
Starting my own news website without any connections or audience doesn't make sense, also I'm bad at marketing. I firmly believe this is a very good solution. I just don't know yet how to utilize it?
Should I offer the power of algorithm to some podcast that have audience and their own news website, should I offer it to someone who wants to build a news website...
Great idea! Can you offer it as an API first product? Sell access to the data feed.
Yeah I could offer it as an API product for sure
It enables you to focus on your IP. Let your API consumers work on building the audiences to consume the content.
But then again, very low percentage of people know how to use APIs
I'd say that with no-code tools it's becoming less a problem to consume API content. Depends if you want to own the IP or try and own the IP and the end customer. Building a B2C product is a lot harder than building a solution targeted at news aggregators and publishers.
I've never tried no-code tools. I would have to see how to integrate it with no-code tools
At The Auth API, we're adding payment provider integrations to enable API first products to sell access to their APIs. Let me know if you want more info!
Great idea! Maybe create a service like Instapaper or pocket where you let users add for read-later. You could offer full articles for free and charge $X/mo for shortened articles.
If you just want to focus on the core algorithm, you could just sell it as API and let others build apps and integrate with your service.
very cool!
I think alot of news is very headline driven...sort of like twitter . And from what I can tell, your app focuses on global news. It would be interesting to make it more relevant for users to also include local news. And perhaps you can do a sentiment analysis on it.
Theres a similar app that pulls out political leaning info aswell, https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
This carrom pool premium also has a section of news and it's algorithm is also great i think, give it a try
I would focus on selling the tool for others to use and find your business model (pay per use, plans, etc). News websites are another world to sell.
Hey, nice work!
You can find a co-founder, who is good in marketing.
You can offer your solution to current news websites
Build a landing page, and share with folks from reddit groups where inhabit people who read news daily - pre-validate your idea with gumroad pre-order page, get some early adopters and make a SaaS :)
Wish you best
Android and iOS app. See inshorts for example.
Already checked that before I even started
Chrome extension maybe? Could just live in the users browser and shorten every article down. Maybe the user could even adjust size or whitelist certain sites.
Makes me think of justtherecipe.com
Great idea. Maybe build a SaaS ?
In what sense?
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