Show HN: The Traveler – News from whenever you want it

Re:Show HN: The Traveler – News from whenever you want it by alexvhicks on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @05:23PM (#8455914)

I got back from a 5 week backpacking trip last year and was completely lost news-wise (the Snowden leaks happened during the trip). So I took that idea and combined it with a few others I had for further Twitter functionality and made this.

I'm still working on importing users' followed news sources from Twitter, moving over an additional 2 million+ articles from another database, and creating your own customizable pages (sorta like the Pulse news app).

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Re:Show HN: The Traveler – News from whenever you want it by rmsaksida on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @05:49PM (#8456028)

I'm not sure I get it. Is your idea to gather news for a specified time range, or around a certain location (like the name "the traveler" would suggest)?

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Re:Show HN: The Traveler – News from whenever you want it by alexvhicks on Tuesday October 14, 2014 @06:42PM (#8456218)

Well, the name and domain name were originally 'Headlines', but I changed to 'traveler' when seeing the site's users as backpackers, campers, or international business travelers - people who'd be going off the grid for a few days to a few weeks. So right now the site allows you to pick either specific news sources or categories of them, and then use that widget on the side to select whichever range of days you want news from.

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