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I actually liked Circa. I think there is a need for a just the facts articles.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't tried every other news service/app, but other than summarising news, being able to track the development of specific news items was also great. The content quality definitely beats many other aggregators. I hope they make it through this.
> I hope they make it through this. Unless I'm misinterpreting something in the article or your comment, I thought it was pretty clear that they didn't and are shutting down for good? https://medium.com/circa/farewell-to-circa-news-7d002150f74b
Also reading a couple of tweets or reports that they are still looking for funding.
Sounds like unless there's a miracle, they will be shutting down for good though since many (most?) of the team has left. One could only hope.
Yup, that'd do it.. if you predicate your success on changing human nature, you're gonna have a hard time.
Circa had some very good elements - following the stories, and the clean no-nonsense layout. I was very excited about it when it first came out (and mad at them, because I thought they'd built something I was trying to make). After a while I noticed I used the app less and less - partially because it was a bit buggy on iOS, partially because I could not share stories outside of the app (they eventually fixed that).
I actually liked Circa. I think there is a need for a just the facts articles.
Yeah, the point from the article "Circa was cold and rational at a time when journalism was becoming more entertaining and emotional." This isn't journalism, its become punditry. I would also love a just the facts news source.
As far as I'm concerned, The Verge isn't a real journalistic outlet and shouldn't be seriously. They're half an Apple shill blog and half a left-wing political publication. That's not journalism.
Too bad, the reason I liked Circa was exactly the cold, rational, to-the-point approach, wrapped in a nice and usable app.
> Matt Galligan, co-founder and chief executive of Circa 1605 Inc., which runs a mobile application for news, says rent on his 3,000-square-foot office in SoMa has roughly doubled since the company moved in two years ago. But the rent and renovations to expose the brick walls weren’t “unnecessary burn,” he says. His 12 employees “are spending nearly a third of their life there,” he says. “It helps for it to be a positive experience.”
I guess exposed brick walls do come in handy when you need something to bang your head against.
[1] http://www.wsj.com/articles/startups-spend-with-abandon-flus...
Circa failed because it used expensive journalists to create what should have been cheap aggregated content. The content itself had little added value compared with thousands of other daily news sites. Aggregators need to keep costs low and volume high -- Circa had this backwards.
I suspect it failed because, as is snuck into a middle paragraph, "... Circa never turned itself into a business." All of the other complaints in this article were positives (or at least "don't care"s) for me.
I suspect it failed because, as is snuck into a middle paragraph, "... Circa never turned itself into a business." All of the other complaints in this article were positives (or at least "don't care"s) for me.