Define Your news & choose your topics for personalized feed
Unlike other news apps, you tell us the exact topics you care about, and we bring you time-saving, unbiased takeaways from the world's most trusted sources.
We're the team behind Dola AI serving almost 3 million users. This time we are presenting Syft AI! We are a group of productivity hackers, news junkies, tech nerds, and lifelong learners who grew tired of the "one-size-fits-none" approach of traditional news apps.
Why do we build Syft? As heavy news consumers ourselves, we kept hitting the same walls:
1. Worst pain: Locked into pre-set topics and categories Why can't I track "robotics startups news around the world, only tech breakthroughs and fundraising news" for my news feed? Or get updates on "the crazy user growth successes happening around the world"? This is why professionals waste 1.5 hours a day checking 10+ news tabs.
2. Second pain: Unfiltered, bad, scattered sources Today's news is a giant spam folder. There are good ones, but algorithm pushes what's viewed the most - clickbaits go to the top. You think: Clickbaits again? Repeat News? Another fake news? Is this local story made up again by AI?
It's imposible to get a full picture of a topic. Especially covering local news from all over the world. Wherever you go, it's just US media coverage losing local context in translation, or worse, translated truths with biases. When you want to read local news with google translation? It's 20 tabs of work.
3. Still pain: Wasting time on duplicates & recycled stories Well most of us are stockholders of at least 1 stock, and god when I read the same APPL news across 12 articles repeating each other, with a tiny bit of extra input.
How we're tackling these problems (so far): 📰 Solution 1: Self-Define your topics, track updates automatically A VC user wanted to track "Gen-AI, semiconductor, robotics, start-up news in silicon valley" - no app allowed that mix. With Syft, he typed it in. Now, it's his morning digest. You create your unique news feeds.
I (a growth professional, start-up founding team user) personally subscribe to 16 "user growth news" topics for 16 different 2C products I learn from, and each channel gathers reliable articles from 8-20 unique sources relevant & reliable to that particular topic - here comes the second breakthrough Syft brings:
🌎 Solution 2: Trusted global sources from all perspectives Our user who is a head of research on Wall Street, subscribes to the topic "What influences are Trump tariff policy creating? I want local news from countries Trump tariff affects such as Canada, China, etc."
He loves the source reliability, efficiency boosting summaries, the original truths, the different perspectives, and the untwisted local news of the same event.
And the reason behind is Syft curates reliable and high authority news specific to each topic & its relevant areas - it also means relevant local news around the world. Many users struggled to find balanced coverage and true voices from different local sources until using Syft.
✂️ Solution 3: AI-powered story deduplication & summarization to save your time Another developer user investing in Nvidia stock tracks "all reasons why Nvidia stock price fluctuates" just because trading apps bombard him with repeating news. And now half our team follows that channel.
Syft's engine stitches key updates into one takeaway - like a friend saying, "Hey, you know what's new today." You can choose when to get the push notifications alert for different channels too. Can't believe this is now his bedtime story.
We're inviting you to shape what's next: For product hunt community: Syft is now giving away 10 news channels for 0 cost where you can literally create any topics you want to follow their updates. Got a product-specific topic? A niche passion? A controversial concern? Type it in - we'll hunt the news, you reclaim your time.
Oh! Want more free news channels? We even have more quota granting our angel users who help us improve. If you are a heavy news user and want more customized channels, just fill out this poll: https://forms.gle/RJHtQDf3dMjQ4rs16
Question for you: What are your specific/unique topics you'd track or frequently search? What sources you want us to integrate next? (Our co-founder subscribes to the topic "SAAS pricing models news worldwide").
🎁 Show Don't Tell. Use cases and more - Here's Today's Steals from some awesome founders: Our friends in YC, A16Z, founders fund etc. helped us with one big favor where I think Product Hunt family may benefit from: I gathered what their startup founders find useful, helpful, novel, and awesome to follow on Syft. Here are some "secret sauces" they love:
Sometimes you just wanna sift out what can help you, and this is for all the awesome developers out there - you are our Kings:
For the bread makers and (part-time) traders, you might need a quick take-away daily: Commodity, Gold, and Bitcoin Price Trendshttps://justsyft.com/feeds/sdfQlJx55p7Op
