Comments on: Y Combinator Challenge #3 – New News

By: lucasjosh.com » Blog Archive » Clearing the Tabs on a Saturday Night

lucasjosh.com » Blog Archive » Clearing the Tabs on a Saturday Night — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:44:04 +0000

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By: Y Combinator Challenge: Mission Accomplished! « A Startup A Day

Y Combinator Challenge: Mission Accomplished! « A Startup A Day — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:55:54 +0000

[...] New News – The basic idea of this one is pretty solid – recreate the fun and excitement of a real newsroom online. I think I’d actually use it, which is a good litmus test since I actually don’t use most of the new sites I read about on a daily basis. [...]

By: Michael Melanson

Michael Melanson — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 12:39:47 +0000

Sounds like Wikinews to me.

By: astartupaday

astartupaday — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:03:56 +0000

Thanks Sam! I like the idea around revenue generation. Another option might be the ability for other news services to submit stories to the crowd (i.e. A tech magazine that pays to have an article fact-checked). In general, though, there’s always value to a big media property. The focus here should be on building out a world-class service first and letting the revenue follow.

If you’re interested in building this out, definitely go for it! I should probably re-post some of my ground rules around reuse of the ideas posted here, but in general I absolutely encourage anyone and everyone to steal these ideas and implement them ASAP. Most of this stuff I would never get around to doing anyway, and it would be very cool to see some of these ideas come to life.

By: Sam Bowen

Sam Bowen — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 20:44:49 +0000

I really like this idea and I know it would work well in a niche market such as personal finance.

However, where is the revenue model beside traditional ads. One option – a subscription service for a personalized version of the service.

I could build the site using Ruby on Rails – if your or someone else is interested.

By: astartupaday

astartupaday — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:44:11 +0000

Thanks guys, appreciate the input

By: Calvin Spealman

Calvin Spealman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 15:19:25 +0000

The fact that we would have any role other than “write a rough draft and publish it immediately so I get it before anyone else” would make this a gem and truly stand out from some of the problems with internet news.

Actually, that might make it stand out from traditional news, too…

By: Kev

Kev — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:56:05 +0000

If this service was already up and running I’d definitely take a look at it, just to have a go at writing. Interesting idea.