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<aside> 🔎 News Gathering Here are a few places to find news:
→ tech/business newsletters Morning Brew, The Hustle, Trends.co, Trends.vc, Product Hunt Daily, theSkimm, Kinsey Grant's Business Casual
→ IndieHackers.com Tweetmaster Flex, homepage (e.g. "Top News" section), interviews, products, milestones, groups
→ tech/business media TechCrunch, The Verge (Creators), The Business of Business, Ars Technica (Biz & IT, Tech), Axios (Jobs, Economy & Business), VentureBeat (Commerce, Entrepreneur), GeekWire (Startups), Fast Company (Tech), The Information, Harvard Business Review, Wired Business, NYT (Entrepreneurship, Technology, Business), Entrepreneur
→ podcasts TWiST, a16z, My First Million, How I Built This, Masters of Scale, Mixergy, Conversations with Tyler, The Tim Ferriss Show, Call Paul, Exponent
→ Twitter @IndieHackers, #indiehackers, etc.
→ blogs Benedict Evans, Stratechery, First Round Review, Tomasz Tunguz, Sparktoro, Marginal Revolution, Money Stuff, Marker, Rationally Exuberant, Slate Star Codex, Alexey Guzey, Daniel Lemire, Gwern Branwen, Jose Luis Ricón, Luke Muehlhauser, The Money Illusion, The Bootstrapped Founder
→ communities Hacker News, r/startups, How You Built That, LessWrong, Sparktoro Trending
→ major media Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Drudge Report
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<aside> ☝ What makes for a good news post?
Bare minimum: ✓ recent news hook ✓ useful to IHers
Include as many as possible: ✓ connection to other news events ✓ connection to broader trends ✓ educational analysis, insights ✓ what people are saying about it ✓ relevant IHer stories, examples ✓ strong opinions from you, others ✓ prominent people or companies ✓ spicyness, remarkability ✓ illuminating stats or images
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