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Newsly 2.0 — Reads top trending news & articles in a natural human voice
Newsly picks up the most trending topics on the web and reads them in a natural voice. Now you can follow any topic you can think of, be it NFT, Metaverse, or The Kardashians! The entire web becomes listenable! Now also with podcasts, read mode and weather.
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Hey Product Hunters! 👋
I'm Yoni, CEO and founder of Newsly.
I want to start by thanking @kevin for hunting our product! 🙏
When we started developing Newsly a year and half ago, we thought: What is the fastest product we can build, that people would be enthusiastic to use, based on the Newsly concept. And this is what we did. First, we developed an app that picks up the most trending articles on the web at any given moment and reads them to you in a natural human voice. Later we added a few categories in which we would pick up daily trending articles as well. Later we even added podcasts that became one of our biggest growth engines. But at the end of the day, the original idea was more than that. The idea behind Newsly wasn't just to enable you to follow and listen to trending "Entertainment", or "Business" articles from the web, but offer you the possibility to follow a topic as specific as you want, be it "Clean Energy Companies", "Defi contracts over Ethereum", "Tom Brady" or "The Kardashians". So now, this idea has finally come to life, with the help of the amazing team at Newsly. Newsly is proud to present:
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FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNET, THE ENTIRE WEB BECOMES LISTENABLE!
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Now you can finally follow any topic you like, get the most trending articles on the web about that topic at any given moment, and listen to it!
Just click on the Explore tab, and freely search the topic you like on the search bar and start to follow!
I would like to thank not only the AMAZING team at Newsly but all the GOOD people that were ever involved in helping this revolution come to life. Be it past and present employees, people that gave big or small advice in face-to-face meetings (but usually on Zoom), reviewed our app and gave feedback, partners, investors, advisors, which helped our product to reach more people.
You can also try our premium subscription for free.
Oh, and BTW we added a few more features on the app (look at my comments below, you won't be disappointed).
These are the additional features (not so small, after all):
📱 Get weather updates while listening to your content. Making Newsly your home app. ☂
📱 Conveniently switch from listening 🔊 to reading 📖 mode
📱 Download any audio track for offline listening 💾
Massive congratulations, @yonitzafrir! In a world where face-to-face contact is still not completely possible, an additional sensorial experience makes such a big difference!
@firas_abboud Thank you Firas! I hope we would be back to face-to-face sooner than later. Don't worry, our product would still be relevant even then. I remember sleeping with the radio on, before the mobile and even before the internet more than 30 years ago...
@yonitzafrir I like that you can switch from reading to listening mode. I prefer to read, but I can't read while driving 😂 so it would be amazing to pick up where I let off while I drive to work. I also love that you can follow a topic and it curates sources from all over. Well done 👏 !
@dawn_veltri1 Thank you. Yes, most people have time they prefer to listen and time they prefer to read. That is why we wanted to make it as convenient as possible.
Congrats on the launch, @yonitzafrir! This is like news on Radio, re-invented and personalised? Has got some solid use cases.
Good job with the launch Yoni and team! The curation and expansion to more specific topics seems very interesting. Will explore more and share feedback. What's the best way for folks to share feedback with you and the team? Best of luck for the launch!
@pedrobh Thanks Pedro. For the first time ever, the entire web is not listenable. You can share feedback directly, or email info@newsly.me
@edgar1 Thank you, Edgar! That is exactly the problem our team was aiming to solve. Tech should make our lives easier, not harder!
Hey @yonitzafrir Congrats on the launch!!
Really nice work, listening>reading sometimes when you're on a walk, run, etc.
So cool and useful. As a mother of 2 kids I totally need such product - which might help to listen to useful stuff while doing some errands
This is a wonderful product. What regions' content do you currently serve and is it only in English?
@rucha_joshi8 So for the podcasts, you can get any country you want. For listening to trending articles it is only in English (although we have a small experiment with Spanish and Portuguese from with Colombia and Brazil trending articles). But for regions, you can get anything, if you search it on the search bar, under the Explore tab. So let's say you want to know about Covid-19 in Paris. Just put this (or 'Covid-19 Paris' would be enough) and you can get articles on that subject read to you. Your own personal newscaster!
Congratulations on the launch.
App looks cool. Love the UI.
Also love the "trending" section. All news hands-free 😀
@tejaswi_bitra yes. But actually the categories on the Explore are trending as well (just per category), and if you define you own topics (be it Bitcoin Tom Brady or The Kardashians) it would pick whatever is trending on THAT SPECIFIC TOPIC at any given moment
You know.. I didn't expect to like this. I learned about Newsly's product a few weeks ago, and it's surprisingly nice! Great UI, great feel to the product and all that, but the offering itself is great.
Congrats too the Newsly team on making a nice product!
@ishwr We love surprising people with our product! Thank you for your kind feedback, Ishwar.
This sounds like it would be great technology for accessibility. I'll keep following along with Newsly!
@nikki_tighe Thank you, Nikki! It's great that you mentioned the accessibility, as that's one of the things our app strives to accomplish. Regardless of ability, keeping up with current news and trends should be commonplace!
I have been following this product since its first release. Pretty cool idea. Congrats. 👏
@seemyself Hi Martin. It is what is available and popular/important on the web. However if you search the title of the article you are looking for, it would probably come up in the search
@daryllman, thank you! Did you notice you can get your weather updates there as well?
@simon_barker1 Thank you. We are proud of the implementation, at least as we are proud of the idea.
Design really well, but I think you have good market challengers as voice assistants in IOS and Android
@alexneysis Did you listen to the voices we have, compared to them? Also, it isn't just about the voice. It is about the complete solution. No one can pick for you the top trending articles about topics you define and read them to you, all in one playlist. Think of it as your personal newscaster.
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