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Ask HN: Will you pay $1 for personalized news only for you?
4 points by NinjaX 2731 days ago
Just a market research. Do you think it is viable?
9 comments

Maybe.

Dollar per month? Session?

A lot depends on the criteria and how expressive it is.

Can I get news written from the labor point of view to contrast the business centric dominant form today?

I put that one here for the challenge.

For most things, I use RSS and or basics like a google alert. And that works pretty well.

Yes-ish. I don't want personalized news, but I'd like to subscribe to certain topics. As the (current) #1 comment says though, my main concern is accurate and unbiased.

As an aside, short form news might be handy too. Briefs. But I'd really have to trust that the news is unbiased, and it would have to be backed up by unbiased more in-depth content.

No. But I will pay $500 a month for news that is accurate, complete, and unbiased by the politics of the journalist.
No, because I have no reason to believe that anyone is capable of reliably finding news and articles I want to see most. If even Google and the other big sites can't manage it, I doubt any smaller organization can.
Not sure anyone can give you a good answer with this level of detail buddy. $1 for an app? $1 a day? What kind of news? In what way will it be personalised?

I’d say if you mean a news aggregator, it sounds unlikely.

A kind of service where you choose your areas of interests; we curate, summarize news article based on your interests, and send you a page link to read those summaries with links to original articles.
There's a few such services that exist right now - doesn't mean you can't be better than them but worth noting! Only one that springs to mind is https://feedly.com

I'm not sure HN is going to be a super effective research tool for you with this. Have you thought about making a few basic mockups and putting them in front of people?

isn't that what most companies are trying to do with their feeds? that sounds awful, no I don't want to live in a personalized bubble.
It is to get rid of mindless browsing and news.
the title has "news" in it, so I assumed something like world news or recent events? but from your comments it seems something closer to a curation of links similar to what I would find using stumbleupon which sounds a little bit better.
Its based on how personalized it is. If you can give me some good content to read, I will surely.
It's been done a hundred times.
yes