Building lucid.report taught me that information alone doesn't create understanding
Hey Product Hunt, I’m Dan. I’m a product designer and engineer from Noosa, Australia, and over the years my work has sat across technology, media, and design. More recently, I’ve been building Lucid, a transparency-oriented news platform designed to help people compare coverage, identify bias patterns, and make better-informed decisions. What the work has taught me is that the problem is rarely...
Why is it still so hard to see the full picture of a news story?
One thing that kept bothering me about the way we consume news online is that we rarely see a story in context. Most interfaces present one article at a time, even though the reality is that every story exists as a field of coverage. Different outlets emphasise different facts, tone, and framing. When you read coverage across multiple publishers, you start to notice patterns: • what details are...