Not Depressing news

AI powered news filter - only the positive news gets through!

Description

📖 I started working on this after seeing a bunch of super depressing news stories one day. I got the first prototype rolling in around 25 minutes and Product Hunt really liked it. The next version was sort of disappointing because I didn't know how to do the AI, so I ended up trying a bunch of complex scraping systems. In this version, I took the time to grow my AI skills and tuned a big pre-trained neural network to speak news with a couple hundred thousand news articles; and that's the neural network doing the analysis. ___ ❓ It's trained to stop; Emotional manipulation Shock content Politically charged things Polarizing content ...and a whole bunch more; it's now my de-facto morning news consumption system. (These are hand labeled trying to avoid any sort of bias and focusing solely on the value of the content) ___ 💵 There are no ads in this app, it would conflict with the intention of the app. Instead, I use a freemium model - users are given some amount of free usage per day, and for unlimited use it's $7.99/month or $1.99 per week. Users are paying for access to the filtration AI, and I want to make sure that the AI (and whoever trains it in the future, probably just me) stick to their principles.

Stage

Operating

Platforms

  • iOS app

Launch date

January 24, 2021

Published

January 30, 2021