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Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by sabasedighi »

Since 60% of my job is finding content for our audience, this is what's been working for me:

1. Quality newsletters - they help you know what's important and aggregate commentary around it. My favorites - Mattermark's Daily Digest, Pocket hits, JS Daily/Weekly, Quartz Daily Bried

2. BUZZSUMO (paid but worth it) - helps you sort through the noise and see share volumes for each channel based on a domain (ex. wired.com) or you can set topics where it aggregates most trending pieces based on virality of shares. Also has content analysis tool that allows you to see what keywords are most common for a domain and analyze FB page content for shares and popularity. Does much more but that's the quick and dirty.

3. Of course HackerNews is great, especially if you cater your content to a techie audience.

4. Twitter Lists + Nuzzel

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by AlbertoGP »

deepakkarki wrote: post #121
harigov wrote: post #117

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love the idea but the design needs some work. If you can also display a quick summary and time to read an article, that would improve our reading efficiency quite a bit. That, and of course, dark design.

Thank you for the feedback! By a dark design, do you mean like a toggle of sorts - b/w a white dominant and a dark dominant UI? Or completely switch to a dark UI?

I would propose something like this to start with:

https://demo.sentido-labs.com/proposal/discoverdev/

That's just a .dark class in the body tag:

     input').onchange()">
...a switch at the top right:

     dark
...and a bit of CSS:

https://demo.sentido-labs.com/proposal/discoverdev/dark.css

I also find the yellow-on-white links in your Twitter theme difficult to read.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by kureikain »

I relied on Mailling List. I subscribe and create rule to tagged on of them wit `devnews` tags.

Then during my commute to work I started to checkout them.

Then later on, I personally paste links into a Evernote note to make them searchable for later. I then decide to share with the world and start my own mailing list[0]

I also use Hacker News as a way to keep up with development trend and technology. I learn so much stuff on Hacker News by researching on thing people say that I don't understand.

One thing I found really helpful is I stopped worrying about how to find content but more about how to consume content. We're never lack of content nowsaday and if thing is good or worth to know, they will appear in your eyes at some point in some form.

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[0] https://betterdev.link/

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by kureikain »

dchuk wrote: post #66

I built this site: https://engineered.at It's like HN, but powered by hundreds of startup tech/engineering blog feeds. It pulls in some really good stuff! Not a lot of users yet, just barely getting it going so far, let me know what you think. EDIT: Lots more planned for this site, just only able to spend free time on it: 1. Following users/messaging them privately 2. Notifications when users reply to you, follow you…

wow, it's very similar to mine idea: https://one.betterdev.link/

But yours is more completed featured full. Kudo to it.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by doingmyting »

I use a low tech approach. I keep a bookmark folder called Daily with links to the frontpage or some topic page of sites that I've found great stories on.

Each morning, I right click in Chrome, open all bookmarks, scan each front page for interesting headlines, open each page in a new tab until I have a ton of tabs and then read each tab and close one at a time. I think the fact that I see the number of tabs decreasing as I read gives me some sense of accomplishment.

Currently my list is:

    * HN
    * TechCrunch
    * Geekwire
    * Reddit front page
    * Reddit Boston (where I reside)
    * Reddit/startups
    * Reddit/entrepreneur
    * IndieHackers
    * Recode
    * ProductHunt
    * Medium (front page)
    * VentureBeat
    * Business Insider
    * Huffington Post

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by chillee »

jonathansizz wrote: post #32

I gave up on Twitter, as even after massive ongoing curation the signal/noise is far too low. There's no way to filter tweets from sources I'm following, and it's a constant source of anxiety leading to compulsive reloading of the feed. Other social networks are worse. Life's too short for this. I've also cut down on the web sources I follow, as information overload is a real thing, and we rapidly run into diminishin…

+1 for hckrnews. Even if I miss a day, I can easily go back through the last couple days and see what's interesting.

If my backlog is getting too much for me to want to deal with, I simply reduce the number of articles to top 10 or top 20, and go from there.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by PeanutCurry »

Over the course of my day I skim Reuters, Bloomberg, The Wallstreet Journal, Vice, Reddit(Front page, news, and worldnews), and Hacker News. I'd say 70% of the time I'm browsing those sites I'm just skimming headlines. On websites like Vice or Reddit's frontpage, I'm really just there to see what topics are generally hot and rarely read too deeply into the articles. I do something similar for the r/news and r/worldnews subreddits but more on that in a moment. For hard news, I go to Reuters, Bloomberg, and WSJ. If I recognize a topic from r/news or r/worldnews I'll give that article priority over others that look appealing. This strategy is generally enough to maintain an awareness of pop-news while allocating more attention to news that matters with regard to the economy or international events. The rest of my time is whimsy reading which might include articles I passed over before or it might be browsing articles from other sites like BBC or Al Jazeera. Whimsy reading comes at the end mainly to keep myself from wasting too much time reading appealing/popular but ultimately vapid articles about things like what the President just tweeted.

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by jamestimmins »

godelmachine wrote: post #22

I regularly read Adrian Colyer's blog. -> blog.acolyer.org. Every single day. Simply reading through his reviews has increased my knowledge about Computer Science by leaps and bounds. Also, I see for new uploads in "Emerging Technologies" and "Hardware Architecture" section of Arxiv everyday. My daily ritual.

What value have you found in reading his reviews vs reading the actual papers?

Re: Ask HN: What is your content discovery daily routine?

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Post by godelmachine »

jamestimmins wrote: post #139
godelmachine wrote: post #22

I regularly read Adrian Colyer's blog. -> blog.acolyer.org. Every single day. Simply reading through his reviews has increased my knowledge about Computer Science by leaps and bounds. Also, I see for new uploads in "Emerging Technologies" and "Hardware Architecture" section of Arxiv everyday. My daily ritual.

What value have you found in reading his reviews vs reading the actual papers?

The actual papers are 10 pages long, on an average. Reading 10 pages long hard core technical papers everyday is tough for me. His reviews are succint and easy to understand. Enough for me to get the gist of the work done. While my aim is to be able to read those technical papers everyday on my own, eventually, for the time being I could use his reviews.
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