Building an application dedicated to helping people add and read news, articles and publications on social networks in one place is apparently a difficult proposal these days. Smashing, an IA application that allows users to select the news and publications they would like to read, is closing, apparently due to its inability to climb quickly enough.
“We simply did not grow quick enough to move forward. We could not climb it in a sustainable product,” the company said in an email to the customers who announced their closure.
The founder of Goodreads, Otis Chandler, launched Smashing last June, with the aim of using AI and the community to select news articles, blog posts, podcasts and social networks publications on the web. The application allows users to follow their interests, send content and vote the suggested content to indicate relevance. I also had summaries with AI and a bot that could answer questions.
The company said in email that I had seven employees working on the product. Smashing had raised $ 3.4 million in True Ventures funds, Blockchenge, Offline Ventures, Advancit Capital, Power of N Ventures and several Angels investors.
Fortunately, there are many startups working on the problem that applies to management. We have news readers with AI as a bulletin and particle, as well as food aggregator applications such as Feeeed, Tapestry and Reeder, to choose some.
Smashing’s closure occurs after Instagram co -founders closed their Artifact for AI polect news last year And finally sold the technology to Yahoo.
