gokulnaths

Hey hi, really sorry about the late response; been a little off the grid now.

The way I see it, News in Shorts and Tenreads are attempting to solve the problem of information overload, right? And there are two ways to go about it - either reduce the amount of content in each story you have to read, or reduce the number of stories. They take the former route and we take the latter. As far as curation is concerned, right now we are mostly concerned about how many outlets are writing about a particular subject, and how many people are sharing a particular article on that subject. We have a list of 200 odd publishers across a couple of dozen categories, that we handpicked and monitor everyday just to maintain the quality of content that comes through.

Hello HN. This is Gokul, one of the guys behind Tenreads. I thought I'd just share our story with the Hacker News community and gather your thoughts on what we have built.

The Internet has become a noisy place to be in. Cat GIFs, listicles and click-baits have taken over your news feeds and you're drowning in the content gushing out of the world's firehose - Twitter. We simply want to help people cut through this noise.

Tenreads keeps you updated on what's happening everyday on the things that matter to you, without bogging you with the things that don't.

@gokulns on Twitter. :)

As I said, I'm from India and getting a visa, according to the official website takes around a week except under dire circumstances. Hopefully should get it in time. Where are you from?

Fair point. I'll have to try and use connections in the valley to see if any introductions can be made. Thanks a lot for your inputs. :)

Skeptics were arguing that the talks will be uploaded to YouTube anyway, and stuff like that. I'm interested in looking to meet people beyond the event as well. Let's see. M

I got accepted but I've to travel a long way -- from India, is it worth it? I do have plans to set up a bunch of meetings pre and post event, though. (oh and how difficult is it to get a meeting scheduled with big names? I know it's a naive question but still...)