karbon

This was posted yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9282219

I also have been exploring what it may mean to automagically categorize news content.. I took an approach on http://www.rivyr.com of following RSS feeds.. then reverse searching the titles against my product database to attempt to autoclassify news by product. Wish I could see your backend as that's where the secret sauce is but definitely understand not doing that ;)

I made an web application and I'm trying to figure out if there is value in a service like this so I'm hoping to get some feedback. Rivyr.com is a site that provides timeline based news feeds for specific products. My hope is that if you are passionate about the iPhone 6 (for example) you can check back here to get news and updates about that product. You can also follow different products to get updates about various products in your own timeline.

The way it works is I monitor about 30 RSS feeds (TheVerge, DigitalTrends, etc. and adding more), and I reverse search the title against the product database using ElasticSearch. If I find a match, it suggests that article to me and attempts to categorize it. Once or twice a day I'll look over the suggested news stories and select which ones should enter the news stream (I do this by hand to avoid duplicate content, fix categorization mis-matches etc).

So I'm curious if you think a site like this would be valuable to readers / early adopters.