Ask HN: Review my startup Readness.com - a last.fm for news [chrome/fb connect]
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1414693We spend most of our time reading on the web. We're doing it right now. But what we read still feels like a black box, we believe we can create a remarkable experience by making these habits open.
We read to stay informed, and we wish to remain informed amongst our friends - this is the crux of readness.com, to inform you of what your friends are reading, and vice versa.
Readness.com remembers what news articles you read and shares them to your Readness.com friends. The great thing about this is irrespective of how you read news - Hacker News, websites, Twitter or RSS - as long as it's in the browser we can create you and your friends remarkability (recommendations and data).
We do this via a simple browser extension, initially for Google Chrome. We've designed this entire experience to respect your privacy online. Hopefully the click through to our site clearly defines our policy (essentialy: only friends see what you _read_, everyone else data & starred articles, 15 minute window before articles are shown to friends, whitelist of sites only)
You also get a great profile of what news you read, a news profile. It shows the topic sources and topics of news you read.
This product is super early (and our 3rd major product iteration, but thats another story) and we'd love all feedback on privacy, facebook integration and where you find value. Check it out!
Thanks!
Peter - CEO @ Broadersheet