It should be easier to understand what’s happening, so why does keeping up with the news feel like work? That's where Particle comes in. Particle organizes all the coverage so you can see the full picture of every story.
After the demise of Artifact, I was seeking a replacement. I thought Yahoo News might become that after it rebooted the Artifact codebase, but I haven't found myself using it.
Meanwhile, I've become a daily user of Particle during its beta and find that its breadth, coverage, summarization, and presentation of polarized perspectives is offering me something I haven't found elsewhere.
The design is also very attractive, unique, and visual. And its integration of generative AI to allow asking questions of stories is considered and tastefully not the main event.
Definitely recommended!
Hello 👋! I'm Sara Beykpour, co-founder and CEO of Particle. My co-founder @noradio and I started Particle to address a problem we all face: it should be easier to understand what's happening, so why does keeping up with the news feel like so much work? That's where Particle comes in.
Particle organizes all the coverage so you can see the full picture of every story. We summarize news in a personalized feed, so you can catch up quickly. You can see the different sides of a story ("Opposite Sides"), or simplify the language and tone ("ELI5"). You can even set it to translate it to your preferred language.
The way a story is covered can be as crucial to understanding what’s happening as the story itself. Particle shows you the coverage across a spectrum for political stories, and you'll see a callout if the coverage of a story is particularly one-sided.
It's early days, but we've received great feedback and ideas, and we'd love to hear yours. We're just getting started.
Big thanks to @chrismessina for being our hunter! We miss Artifact too. But as one of our beta users recently said to us... "Artifact walked so that Particle could run."
It's a fascinating product. Having grown up professionally using news aggregation sites it's fun to bring this idea back with fully backed in AI to attempt to bring more transparency to the news.
Hardest part about using this app is training yourself to stop using social news feeds and go to a single app for news headlines!
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