FlashNews – All that is going on in one application

After the development of a platform mediating sports news FlashSport another ambitious goal followed: the development of an application that can offer an overview of the current news in one spot as fast as possible and based on user preferences. This time for Livesport News, a subsidiary company of the technological group Livesport.

Our task was to provide the user with a platform that would deliver accurate and up-to-date information about everything going on in the world based on their interest in the shortest possible amount of time. In a personalized way, but without the use of untransparent algorithms. The key factors for obtaining the requested functionality of the web and mobile apps were speed as well as management and control of all data sources.

We have designed and implemented the application so that the user gets relevant content coming from more than 10 000 sources. Thanks to this and the gRPC technology, we can quickly saturate the reader with a chronologically sorted overview of information based on their preferences – based on their selected media outlets, personalities, public institutions, places or following specific expressions.

The only criteria to integrate the content followed by the user into the feed is the date of publication. There is no prioritization. That is also true for the news provider. Based on the information from the Independent journalism foundation, some sources can be marked as potentially untrustworthy which the user is notified about by the app.