Show HN: Not Depressing News
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Show HN: Not Depressing News
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Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#2Hey 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.
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#3Hey 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.
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#4Doesn'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.
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#5Hey 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.
A lot of your news is not just "not-depressing". It's actively uplifting. In fact, most of the stories on the front page are "feel good" stories.
It'd be cool/useful if you could provide news on the important issues of the day that's simply "not-depressing". I.e., factual and detached and doesn't elicit emotion, but not explicitly feed-good.
(e: forgot to say: nice work!)
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#6I 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.
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#7Hey 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/great - it's focused around a core topic (environment/Trump) and written by hand.
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#8So, you're just taking the list from https://www.reddit.com/r/UpliftingNews/ ?
You should at least name/link them somewhere...
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#9I 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.
Someone mentioned this above but this scrapes headlines from Reddit's r/UpliftingNews.
Re: Show HN: Not Depressing News
#10I 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 caters to that reality, even gives the reader hope that everything will turn out well.
No, your website is not a replacement for the news sites we all are used too. But it might become a wonderful addition. Keep it going!