gooder news

There’s a problem with news.

You already know what it is. Every morning, you pick up your phone and get headlines – loud, anxious, one-size-fits-all. It’s overwhelming. It’s exhausting. Sometimes it makes you feel worse, not better. That’s not how it’s supposed to be.

We believe news can be better. Not just a little better. A lot better.

What if, instead of doom and noise, news made you feel hopeful? What if, instead of just telling you what happened or selling you something, it made you care? What if you could see every story from a dozen new angles – funny, poetic, optimistic, even a little weird? What if the news felt like it was made for you?

Today, we’re introducing Gooder News.

Gooder News takes the day’s headlines – real stories, from the world’s best sources – and remixes them. With one tap, you can see the world through fresh eyes. Choose the channel that fits your mood: thoughtful, witty, calm, wild. The same news, infinitely reimagined.
No more doomscrolling. No more “just the facts, ma’am.” Now you get news that fits your life – news that makes you feel.

  • Remix every story. See the news as a bedtime story, a standup routine, or a love letter to the planet.
  • Stay informed, stay sane. We cut the noise, the anxiety, the clickbait.
  • Pick your channel. Why settle for one voice, when you can have hundreds?

This isn’t a news feed. It’s a news experience.
It’s news, your way.

Because the world doesn’t need more headlines. It needs more meaning.

The world doesn’t just need more good news – it needs Gooder News.

Gooder News is a prosocial, radically positive, infinitely remixable news app that turns every story into something you’ll actually want to read. Using AI, it curates real news from trusted sources, filtering each story through playful, uplifting, thought-provoking, engaging, and/or creative lenses – so instead of doomscrolling, you can joyscroll. It’s news that’s actually good – for your brain, and for the world.

Well, reading news directly on news sites is generally an awful experience. Many of these sites are polarizing, ad-filled, and hard to navigate. Stories can be repetitive and/or boring. It can also be hard to know what to do with the information we read, besides walking away feeling negative and disempowered about the state of the world. Gooder aims to change all of that.

  • Interactive & participatory: Anyone can suggest new remix channels or (someday) create their own, giving rise to collective news feeds that reflect the world as we want to see it.
  • Infinite remixing: every headline is rewritten in dozens of styles: uplifting, humorous, poetic, surprising, empathic, curiosity-provoking, action-oriented. You can choose to challenge your own biases, read news framed as a bedtime story, or as if narrated by Morgan Freeman. With so many fresh takes, you can choose your own adventure.
  • Antidote to doomscrolling: No more bottomless negativity, rage-bait, or algorithmic anxiety. Gooder News is designed to actually improve your day and mental health. You can stay informed while feeling good.
  • Supports mental health: In a media landscape that profits from anxiety, Gooder News offers a healthier, life-affirming alternative.
  • Affirms hope over anxiety: By surfacing solutions not just problems – Gooder News helps people believe that change is possible.
  • Reduces fatigue, apathy, and polarization: When people feel empowered and uplifted, they’re more likely to act, connect, and care.
  • Increases civic engagement: Designed to build common ground and inspire collection action rather than outrage and divisiveness.
  • Fuels empathy and curiosity: By offering multiple takes on stories, readers are encouraged to think critically, see nuance, and play with ideas – skills at the core of a healthy democracy.
  • Converse with the news story in the voice of your choice
  • Chat with the personas about anything
  • Improved filtering + curation controls
  • Custom + crowd sourced channels
  • Custom news sources
  • Generate images (for non-IP sensitive channels)
  • Text to speech narration (for non-IP sensitive channels)
  • Native iOS + Android apps
  • Integration with Can’tMake.It

Gooder News is actually the evolution of DeepFeed by becoming more narrowly focused + curated, broadcast-only, and using a completely custom stack created with agentic coding tools (primarily Claude Code 🧡):

  • Frontend: Novel 2-dimensional newsfeed UI (as far as I am aware) written in React Native (+ Expo for web), enabling easy-ish development of native iOS and Android apps.
  • Backend: Python 3.12 + FastAPI + PostgreSQL + Docker
  • LLMs: mix of o3 and o4-mini-high via OpenAI flex processing (10 minute delay for 50% cost savings? yes please!)
  • News sources:
    • RSS feeds: BBC, The Guardian, Nature, Science
    • GNews & NewsAPI
    • Reddit
  • Infrastructure & DevOps: Hetzner VPS + Docker Swarm + Caddy reverse proxy + GHCR deployment + staging deployment flow