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Announcing PressHat: News aggregation, distribution, and reporting
- thaumaturgy 17y agoSo this is the "startup" -- more "colossal undertaking" -- that I and a couple of friends have been chewing away on for a couple of months. Hit the blog link at the bottom for grainy video of our iPhone app in action and other pretty pictures. We've decided that since we're going to have a longer development cycle than the average weekend project, we're going to announce our presence much earlier in the development process and see if we can get some helpful feedback -- and maybe a bit of a following -- along the way.
- pclark 17y agowelcome to the party competitor :)
- thaumaturgy 17y agoHey there! I remember bumping into you on HN a while back too. In all seriousness, I'm excited by this. There's plenty of room for a couple of people to work on this, and we'll probably have slightly different approaches anyway. Can you say yet how yours is coming along?
- pclark 17y agomy first thoughts: boy thats an ugly website. especially the coming soon icon. why so much white? show me the product. show me the product. at a guess it seems like you're solving 3 really hard problems: news reading [like broadersheet], news publishing [content cms] and citizen journalism [like windycitizen or whatever]. can't wait to see it.
- thaumaturgy 17y agoThanks for the feedback. I agree on the design: none of us is a graphic designer, so that's on the to-do. We just needed to get something up. The product is still under development; we're taking a risk by announcing our intention ahead of our product, but we've got enough done at this point that product releases should start happening Real Soon Now. There's also a fourth (and fifth) problem in the mix: advertising (and revenue in general). Man, Broadersheet's website really blows ours away. :-)