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Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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I like it. If you would like to share any insights in how you've built this, I'm quite curious. Perhaps it goes without saying, but if you prefer not to say for whatever reason, then I respect that.

This scrapes from Reddit currently (I just built this) - I'm doing this to check traction - and I'm working a an algorithm that I can feed news sources and any 'happy subreddit' to and get the same effect.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Hey HN, I'm looking for some feedback on NDN, it's a little MVP that will eventually give you only the not-depressing news from all over the web - it's seeing quite a bit of retention, and I'd like to know what you think! I'd like to turn it into a product, but it's pretty hard to see where to go.

Just a tiny bit of typography on the links would go a long way to making the site look more professional.

I'd be happy to add that, if you can suggest what kind of typography I should use or take a look at

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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So, you're just taking the list from https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ ? You should at least name/link them somewhere...

Upliftingnews overpowers any other subreddit when you mix them together, so it makes sense to do just them for the MVP - I'd like to scrape from as many news sources as possible in the future, but I've got work to do for that.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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For those that are interested in positive/uplifting news, I've been following a few newsletters that have similar content:

1) https://www.goodgoodgood.co/goodnewsletter/ (From a recently funded Kickstarter) 2) https://www.theguardian.com/info/2018/feb/12/about-the-upsid... (From the popular newspaper The Guardian) 3) https://tinyletter.com/inbetternews (More cute news/ GIFS of animals) 4) https://www.positive.news/ (UK based positive news)

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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I just bookmarked your site in the hope that you will find the energy to continue this for a long time. The interesting thing is that there is a big gap between our personal life and what we read in the news. While what we read in the news is often terrible, depressing stuff, our personal life is usually good, mostly manageable and not threatening at all. For most of us, life is worth living. And notdepressing.com ca…

Thanks man, the only issue right now is that I really have no idea what to add other than more sources/news articles.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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So, you're just taking the list from https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ ? You should at least name/link them somewhere...

Upliftingnews overpowers any other subreddit when you mix them together, so it makes sense to do just them for the MVP - I'd like to scrape from as many news sources as possible in the future, but I've got work to do for that.

I posted a few more positive news sources in the thread if you're interested in adding them to your data ingest.

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Doesn't work at all for me on FF63. A quick look at the dev console - I think tracking protection blocks it from loading reddit which it wants for whatever reason. Probably a 'proxy through the back-end' job. edit: I just realised I have reddit's DNS blocked. Oops. FF still brings up tracking protection regardless I think.

All good man - I'll take a look ASAP

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Hey HN, I'm looking for some feedback on NDN, it's a little MVP that will eventually give you only the not-depressing news from all over the web - it's seeing quite a bit of retention, and I'd like to know what you think! I'd like to turn it into a product, but it's pretty hard to see where to go.

Promote it on Twitter. There are periodically requests there for some kind of relief from negativity.

No clue how to monetize it though.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Hey HN, I'm looking for some feedback on NDN, it's a little MVP that will eventually give you only the not-depressing news from all over the web - it's seeing quite a bit of retention, and I'd like to know what you think! I'd like to turn it into a product, but it's pretty hard to see where to go.

Promote it on Twitter. There are periodically requests there for some kind of relief from negativity. No clue how to monetize it though.

Like just post it on Twitter with a billion related hashtags?

Didn't know Twitter people needed relief from negativity, I should do more research.

Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News

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Hey HN, I'm looking for some feedback on NDN, it's a little MVP that will eventually give you only the not-depressing news from all over the web - it's seeing quite a bit of retention, and I'd like to know what you think! I'd like to turn it into a product, but it's pretty hard to see where to go.

Do you have a main audience (i.e. age range, field of work) you're shooting for? What do you care about seeing in the news? How do you discern between truly good news and 'puff pieces'? One thing I've actually liked is the approach of organizing news of the sad with the good. Deregulation nation ( https://deregulationnation.substack.com/welcome ) is an example where the newletters are organized by bad/better/good/gre…

I don't have a main audience that I'm shooting for, but I think this will attract younger folk - I care about seeing anything other than sensationalism. That's kind of cool, I'll take a look at their site!
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