Comment by Abishek_Muthian | Hacker News Reader

Comment by Abishek_Muthian | Hacker News Reader

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Abishek_Muthian

It does make business sense to deliver newsletter vs news directly as the former is B2B.

The implementation related decision sounds interesting, I need to think more about this as I wonder whether news in newsletters are anyways going to have limited lifespan. Moreover investment of time on user side for newsletter delivering news increases with each newsletter vs One newsletter delivering what I want.

Congratulations for the launch, I feel recommendation systems need innovation and so I support your endeavor.

> (FYI looks like Needgap is down right now; Cloudflare is showing me a 521 response)

Sorry for that, It's been resolved now. You're welcomed to join the discussion on 'Get me the news I need, not the news I want' by explaining what Sample does to address that problem.

> Moreover investment of time on user side for newsletter delivering news increases with each newsletter vs One newsletter delivering what I want.

You might be interested in this article[1] and the discussion of subscribed vs. filtered sources. It'd be nice to have a convenient way to assign different priorities to newsletters/content sources. So for a few, you'd get every issue, and for the rest, they'd be combined together in some way.

> You're welcomed to join the discussion on 'Get me the news I need, not the news I want' by explaining what Sample does to address that problem.

I'm not sure I have much insight about needs vs. wants, but you might be interested in The Factual.[2]

[1] https://jacobobryant.com/p/the-pros-and-cons-of-algorithmic/

[2] https://thefactual.com/

In the words of the bayesian investor[1],

> Do you want to focus your attention on problems that are most likely to hurt you?

That's the difference between want vs need. I may want to read all the news posted on HN, But only a fraction of it might be what I need in terms of what I need for betterment of my well-being, career etc.

[1] http://www.bayesianinvestor.com/blog/index.php/2021/06/13/av...

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