Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is

Posted by gemis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:52PM
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Access large amount of web search results, news, and other information, at a glance, suitable for mobile and desktop.

http://www.gem.is

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by gemis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:33PM (#7113035)

Thanks for pointing out the issues with source crediting. We are adding the appropriate credits to the site.

As we are still experimenting with the site, we are only getting news from one source.

The key point is not to redirect or scrape someone's news, but to explore innovative ways to enable users to access and read massive amount of info in a short amount of time.

Our objective is to allow users to read 10X amount of news and other info in 1/10 of the time they normally spend.

Thanks for the comments.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by krapp on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:47PM (#7113084)

That's great - but proxying the entire yahoo news page at the very least appears seedy (and you'll probably end up with google turning the screws on you). I understand if it's experimental but you can't just reflect everything.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by gemis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:52PM (#7113095)

This is a work around. Yahoo does not allow showing their news in an iframe, which we currently implement. Again, this is just experimental. We could use another news source which allows iframe. And there won't be a need for the proxy approach.

We think this actually is helpful to the content owner, in our opinion, as it allows more access to their content.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by gemis on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:17PM (#7113167)

By having the content shown in iframe, it makes it easier for users to navigate without opening lots of tabs in the web browser.

Everything is preserved in the original site. It helps the content owner by making more of their content accessible to the users.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by krapp on Thursday January 23, 2014 @10:08PM (#7113139)

>We could use another news source which allows iframe. And there won't be a need for the proxy approach.

The honest way of accomplishing this is to just link to the page.

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by taternuts on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:29PM (#7113011)

the tiny display-box you use to display the articles you scraped is unbearable

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by shamsulbuddy on Thursday January 23, 2014 @08:57PM (#7112926)

looks like Webscraping of major news sites ..

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Re:Ask HN: Review my startup - gem.is by krapp on Thursday January 23, 2014 @09:11PM (#7112960)

The immediate redirect I don't care for at all. And then the auto reload. You're scraping news sites (looks like mostly Yahoo news) but I don't see any attempt at accrediting the sources, and while that may not actually be necessary (I don't know) it would at least be polite.

And then the proxy loads the entire content of the external site in your domain, but all of the relative links wind up broken and pointing to gem.is

This is just a little too blatant for my tastes, sorry.

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