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NewsCred Relaunches, Looks To Become “Ning For Newspapers”

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16 pointsadamhowell12 comments

I believe HNer shafqat is a co-founder. Good luck with the redesign/refocus guys.

Thanks for the post! There are a bunch of other HNers on our team now as well. We have some more exciting news on the API side to announce soon as well.

Hope you guys don't mind if I do a separate "Provide Feedback on my startup" post once the Techcrunch bubble subsides. Feel free to chime in here as well.

"Fill your newspaper with news from around the world, about the news topics you care about."

Using somebody's else copyrighted content and then charging for the newspaper? Good luck with that!

We have explicit partnerships with a large percentage of our content providers. We also have partnerships with some for full text. We continue to reach out to more sources every day - we're not in the business of harvesting feeds without permission.

The whole idea is that we allow people to write, edit, curate and also aggregate content. A simple analogy would be HuffingtonPost. I realize people have strong opinions about HuffPo as well, but that's another debate.

Hope you guys will consider a free trial option when you launch the pro accounts. I'd probably need to play around with the pro features before I plunked down the credit card.

I hadn't heard of either before. I'm somewhat interested (nice design—especially the signup form), but not quite sure if I understand it completely. I think a demo video and/or some examples of good user newspapers would help clear this up immensely.

(I looked at the "Discover more newspapers..." link and most seem to be ones people just started to play around with and gave up on.)

Hi - we're working on a video. You're absolutely right that it would help users understand everything that you can do... Here's an example of editorials plus aggregation: http://manunitedfans.newscred.com/

Will pass on your comment to our designer!

One bit of feedback:

The title at the top of the newspaper should be clickable and link to the frontpage.

I found it difficult to get back to the index.

Absolutely right. Can't believe we missed that. Thx

Interesting idea with the user generated editorial of news

but terribly slow...

Yeah, our servers got slammed. We weren't really planning a big launch, so it caught us a bit by surprise. Proper caching and other improvements will be in place by the weekend hopefully.

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