Nuprizm

Read and rate the news

5.0•2 reviews•

129 followers

Read and rate the news

5.0•2 reviews•

129 followers

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Nuprizm empowers citizens to privately rate news articles, visualize real-time public sentiment, and sort your news feed via algorithmic choice. Trust in news media is at historic lows. We empower readers to add context to the day's most important news.

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Launch tags:News•Social Media•Political news

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Hello Product Hunt! With all that's happening around the world, today couldn't be a better time to launch the future of news. Trust in news media is lower today than it's ever been. This isn't an abstract problem. When we're unsure if we're getting necessary context, or worse--feel like publishers are pushing an agenda, we get a warped sense of how the public at large really thinks. This phenomenon atomizes society, reducing our capacity to solve social and political problems. Nuprizm addresses this problem by giving the public the ability to rate news on importance, accuracy, and headline quality, visualize real-time public sentiment about articles, and sort your news feed using algorithmic choice. When I first conceptualized the design of this platform, I didn't know how to code. So I switched careers, taught myself, and got a job as a software engineer to learn how to build software. I also sharpened my writing skills and published articles with both international and independent outlets to gain experience working with editors. I'm committed to this idea! I'm really happy with this early iteration of the platform, and eager to implement an exciting roadmap that will further enable readers to keep the media honest, help contextualize the world around them, and ultimately build a better public square. You can download our app today in the App Store! I've already implemented new features from early adopters like yourself, so I'd love for you to try it out and tell me what you think too. Thanks for reading! -Tomás

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3yr ago

PHP Secure

@tomas_sidenfaden I mean this is a great idea but like...AI bots who are sent to downvote a particular piece of news? Do you have an algorithm against that? Also I feel like this would divide people rather than unite them. What are your thoughts on that?

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@theological you have to read the article in order to rate it, so that’s a technical hurdle for bots. That being said, bots can be a problem with social platforms at scale. We’ll solve this problem primarily via subscriptions. There will always be a free tier, however.

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@theological I think it’s more likely to unite people because they can get a sense of how the public actually perceived the news, and partisan media always tends to suggest that we’re more divided than we actually are. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, half of Americans believe that news media is actively trying to mislead them. That’s a huge miss. With nuprizm, you’d be able to see whether the framing of the news is generally accepted by the public. I think that’s a pretty powerful tool for narrative decentralization.

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3yr ago

PHP Secure

@tomas_sidenfaden I don't know if I should, uh, break it to you but the whole point of news media is to actively mislead people -- that's why independent news and independent investigative journalists are so important. Any government channel news is a part of the propaganda machine of some sort and to deny that is simply to willingly participate in a mass delusion. I mean, they have written books and articles on this, made films and TV shows and, hell, my first attempted major was PR&Marketing (a hellscape) and one of the first things they teach you is that 'a lie is not a lie if it's just a slight misdirection of the truth' uhhh hello? Also, we literally did studies on how to actually read the news (especially when it comes to linguistics). I'm so glad I'm not in that wretched sphere (no offense to those who enjoy working there). But as I've said, the issue isn't necessarily with people but with bots programmed to make a news piece look more favourable with the public than it really is. Is there an algorithm against that in your app?

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3yr ago

I’m actually proactively reading news now with this, instead of just being led by my social feeds. Great work!! Any thought to add a satire category?

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@kelsea_robson I love satire! We also plan to offer an opinion category soon, as well as a bunch of sub-categories. Satire is a great idea because you can add levity to your news reading experience. I’d also like to add a “good news” feed.

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3yr ago

Mixpanel

strong effort and appreciate the philosophy-first approach. this is definitely poking at a serious problem and in an interesting way... i've seen the "criticism of the crowd" absolutely destroy individual people's confidence (bullying, doxxing etc...)... but "criticism of the media" ... maybe it's the medicine we all need. fight back? nah... fight forward!

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@_ak_ thanks Aaron, that’s the plan!

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3yr ago

Opengeni

Love the idea. I see this in getpocket as well. When stuff is read a lot it gets a badge etc. Requires critical mass to work tho. So my question is how many are using this app atm? What do you define as critical mass for it to work?

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@sentry_co hey André, great question. We do plan on incentivizing reading further and in fact the app already does that: you need to read an article to rate it. We just launched so we have just a few hundred users at the moment. To get to a statistically meaningful enough sample size to get real insight on public sentiment I think we need > 1k users. I’m hoping launching on product hunt helps get us there!

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3yr ago

Great product! Looking forward to seeing this during the upcoming elect year! Time to see how America really feels

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@maryam_safaee that’s the goal! In this day and age, it seems bizarre to have to wait 4 years to get public sentiment. Imagine how politics could change if we had real-time sentiment on all the day’s news!

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3yr ago

Ive been digging the idea of something like this for some time. Glad its finally coming to fruition! Looking forward to see how info is disseminated when you (as the user) have a broader view of context and attempts by authors to skew the news one way or the other.

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@bubba_hotep thank you! I have a lot of great ideas to help readers contextualize the news beyond rating articles, and sorting your feed via algorithmic choice. For example: revealing how publishers make stealth edits, showing which adjectives and terms they use to describe people, ideas and events. And much more!

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3yr ago

This is a good way to remove one more filter (mass media content programming and their corp agenda) between you and information by allowing a qualitative approach to prioritizing news that derives from the actual readers themselves vs the editors and those with $ interests. Neat.

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3yr ago

Nuprizm

Maker

@ksukhia thanks Karl! Ultimately I want to give readers many ways to view the world through a new prism (hence the name!). This is, I believe, how we can evolve beyond the left/right narrative by which most news is framed.

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3yr ago

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