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Interesting project. I agree with the others who say you definitely need some sort of demo to convince users to sign up.

Question though: how did you guys get around the copyright issues? It sounds like you're grabbing the content from these links and displaying them in their entirety on your page. Won't the content providers complain about this?

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That's a great question and one that other apps in the same space (Flipboard, Zite) have publicly struggled with.

As this is just a small project for now, we're not too worried about content providers getting mad. But it's definitely something to keep an eye on and any advice you have would be greatly appreciated.

Many of the sources I saw being pulled out were freely available on the sources' RSS feeds

Right, but content providers at least have some control over their RSS feeds (e.g. adding advertising or truncating it to the first X characters of the article to force users to click to read more).

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