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NewsCred Relaunches, Looks To Become “Ning For Newspapers”

16 points by adamhowell 17y ago

adamhowell 17y ago
I believe HNer shafqat is a co-founder. Good luck with the redesign/refocus guys.
- shafqat 17y ago
  Thanks for the post! There are a bunch of other HNers on our team now as well. We have some more exciting news on the API side to announce soon as well. Hope you guys don't mind if I do a separate "Provide Feedback on my startup" post once the Techcrunch bubble subsides. Feel free to chime in here as well.
  - anApple 17y ago
    "Fill your newspaper with news from around the world, about the news topics you care about." Using somebody's else copyrighted content and then charging for the newspaper? Good luck with that!
    - shafqat 17y ago
      We have explicit partnerships with a large percentage of our content providers. We also have partnerships with some for full text. We continue to reach out to more sources every day - we're not in the business of harvesting feeds without permission. The whole idea is that we allow people to write, edit, curate and also aggregate content. A simple analogy would be HuffingtonPost. I realize people have strong opinions about HuffPo as well, but that's another debate.
  - jsdalton 17y ago
    Hope you guys will consider a free trial option when you launch the pro accounts. I'd probably need to play around with the pro features before I plunked down the credit card.
pclark 17y ago
Interesting idea with the user generated editorial of news
- philsci 17y ago
  but terribly slow...
  - shafqat 17y ago
    Yeah, our servers got slammed. We weren't really planning a big launch, so it caught us a bit by surprise. Proper caching and other improvements will be in place by the weekend hopefully.
AndrewO 17y ago
I hadn't heard of either before. I'm somewhat interested (nice design—especially the signup form), but not quite sure if I understand it completely. I think a demo video and/or some examples of good user newspapers would help clear this up immensely. (I looked at the "Discover more newspapers..." link and most seem to be ones people just started to play around with and gave up on.)
- shafqat 17y ago
  Hi - we're working on a video. You're absolutely right that it would help users understand everything that you can do... Here's an example of editorials plus aggregation: http://manunitedfans.newscred.com/ http://manunitedfans.newscred.com/ Will pass on your comment to our designer!
  - dmix 17y ago
    One bit of feedback: The title at the top of the newspaper should be clickable and link to the frontpage. I found it difficult to get back to the index.
    - shafqat 17y ago
      Absolutely right. Can't believe we missed that. Thx

16 points by adamhowell 17y ago

adamhowell 17y ago

I believe HNer shafqat is a co-founder. Good luck with the redesign/refocus guys.

shafqat 17y ago
Thanks for the post! There are a bunch of other HNers on our team now as well. We have some more exciting news on the API side to announce soon as well. Hope you guys don't mind if I do a separate "Provide Feedback on my startup" post once the Techcrunch bubble subsides. Feel free to chime in here as well.
- anApple 17y ago
  "Fill your newspaper with news from around the world, about the news topics you care about." Using somebody's else copyrighted content and then charging for the newspaper? Good luck with that!
  - shafqat 17y ago
    We have explicit partnerships with a large percentage of our content providers. We also have partnerships with some for full text. We continue to reach out to more sources every day - we're not in the business of harvesting feeds without permission. The whole idea is that we allow people to write, edit, curate and also aggregate content. A simple analogy would be HuffingtonPost. I realize people have strong opinions about HuffPo as well, but that's another debate.
- jsdalton 17y ago
  Hope you guys will consider a free trial option when you launch the pro accounts. I'd probably need to play around with the pro features before I plunked down the credit card.

pclark 17y ago

Interesting idea with the user generated editorial of news

philsci 17y ago
but terribly slow...
- shafqat 17y ago
  Yeah, our servers got slammed. We weren't really planning a big launch, so it caught us a bit by surprise. Proper caching and other improvements will be in place by the weekend hopefully.

AndrewO 17y ago

I hadn't heard of either before. I'm somewhat interested (nice design—especially the signup form), but not quite sure if I understand it completely. I think a demo video and/or some examples of good user newspapers would help clear this up immensely. (I looked at the "Discover more newspapers..." link and most seem to be ones people just started to play around with and gave up on.)

shafqat 17y ago
Hi - we're working on a video. You're absolutely right that it would help users understand everything that you can do... Here's an example of editorials plus aggregation: http://manunitedfans.newscred.com/ http://manunitedfans.newscred.com/ Will pass on your comment to our designer!
- dmix 17y ago
  One bit of feedback: The title at the top of the newspaper should be clickable and link to the frontpage. I found it difficult to get back to the index.
  - shafqat 17y ago
    Absolutely right. Can't believe we missed that. Thx