Read smarter: stay on top of articles in your interests
Smashing is a new app that transforms curious users into smarter readers. It helps you stay on top of all your interests and easily discover articles personalized to you. Follow your industry, companies you track, your favorite sports teams or celebs.
I decided to build Smashing because I believe the ways we discover things to read online are broken and do not serve readers well. I’ve been waiting a dozen years, ever since Google Reader died, for someone to step up and build a truly great content discovery app for the web. I spent a lot of time after I stepped down from Goodreads in 2019 playing with every article and news product I could find and was ultimately dissatisfied—I knew that with today’s technology something better could be built
Congrats to the team on launching! I love the idea of blending curation + AI, feels like a fresh approach. Any fun challenges the team ran into on getting AI and human curation to work smoothly together?
Regular readers would love using this
Congratulations!! Amazing work!!
Huge congrats to the Smashing team on today's launch! I'm loving the idea of reading smarter, not harder. Quick question: How do you handle article freshness - do users get notified of new content immediately as it's published in their followed interests, or is there a slight delay?
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