Show HN: Troogl – A new way to read the news

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12 points·neiman1··5 comments

Hey HN, here's a browser extension for a concept I started tinkering with quite some time ago! It aims to improve the experience of reading news articles by providing you with interesting, real-time insights into each article.

It's pretty hacky (doesn't work perfectly for all sites & the metrics aren't super accurate), but I hope you make some interesting discoveries nonetheless!

This is a very cool idea that I think will fill a huge gap out there. Speaking for myself, i find myself unfairly avoiding many news sources to avoid being overly exposed to negativity. I can imagine many people hold this sentiment (to some extent).

Is there any possibility to develop this as a standalone application, or some sort of self hosted browsing portal?

Thanks for the kind words!

Interesting idea, hadn't really considered the standalone concept. Is the desire for a self-hosted portal related to privacy? If so, the extension doesn't store any data, but if you want full assurance, you can self-host the API that's in the repo [1] and install the unpacked extension yourself [2].

[1] https://github.com/samueldobbie/troogl-extension/tree/main/a... [2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24577024/install-chrome-...

More-so thinking of the ease of use rather than privacy, but that does play a role here. Specifically the ability to switch between devices or browsers, or maybe use this on ORG managed devices that don’t allow installing additional software on.

Congrats from CreatorHub! :)

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