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Hourly Newsy

Mike Lapchick · News

Hourly Newsy is a fast, flexible, one-tap audio news player for people who like to stay current throughout the day

$4.99 · In-app purchases

PRICE
$4.99
In-app purchases
BUSINESS MODEL
Paid
No overall Grossing estimate available
RATING
5.0
1 ratings · Top 5%

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  • START_HERE
  • AGENTS
  • EVIDENCE
  • SPEC
  • BUILD_PLAN
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Feature spec

Goal: Send a clear invoice after finishing a job.

  • Add a client, line items, a due date, and payment instructions.
  • Preview the total before exporting a PDF.
  • Keep an editable draft if export fails.

Screen plan

Invoice editor: Client at the top, editable line items in the middle, total and preview action at the bottom.

States: Empty draft, validation errors beside each field, exporting, and a retry action that preserves the draft.

Differentiate and validate

Hypothesis: Contractors need faster repeat invoices more than more templates.

First experiment: Test duplicating a previous job with five contractors. Watch where they hesitate before expanding the feature set.

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Hypothesis 1

Quality-focused curation, no sensationalism

Assumption to check: Clickbait headlines

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Hypothesis 2

Generous free tier with premium for power readers

Assumption to check: Paywall on everything

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Hypothesis 3

Smart notification bundling, customizable by topic

Assumption to check: Too many notifications

Validate with people who use this workflow before building.

App evidence

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App Store description

Hourly Newsy is a fast, flexible, one-tap audio news player for people who like to stay current throughout the day. With 60+ hourly and daily global feeds covering business, tech, politics, and world affairs, plus presets, favorites, continuous playback, and fresh feeds, Hourly Newsy keeps your news just a tap away. Hourly Newsy was designed to do something podcast apps just don’t: make fresh, rolling news feeds easy to organize, update, and play. Keep your podcast app for everything else. Features: • Choose from 67 news sources (new sources added regularly) • Save custom source presets • Favorite sources for quick access • Continuous playback across selected sources • Skip played episodes • Sort sources by approximate episode length • Hide unselected sources for easier ordering • Group sources by publisher • Drag sources into your preferred order • Refresh feeds to check for new episodes • Remember playback position by episode • Native lock screen and AirPods controls • Playback speed controls • Sleep timer • Share episodes • Background audio playback • Dynamic source artwork and card colors • Optional audio messages between episodes Included sources: • ABC Australia: The World Today • ABC News: ABC News Update • ABC News: ABC Start Here • Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera News Updates • Associated Press: AP Headline News • BBC: BBC Global News Podcast • BBC: BBC Newscast • BBC: BBC World Service 5-Minute News • BBC: Newshour • BBC: Tech Life • BBC: World Business Report • Bloomberg: Big Take • Bloomberg: Bloomberg News Now • Bloomberg: Bloomberg Tech • CBC: As It Happens • CBC: CBC Front Burner • CBC: CBC The World This Hour • CBC: CBC World Report • CNBC: CNBC Squawk Pod • CNBC: Morning Call • CNN: Amanpour • CNN: CNN 5 Things • C-SPAN: C-SPAN Washington Today • Democracy Now!: Democracy Now! Audio • Deutsche Welle: DW News Brief • Deutsche Welle: Inside Europe • Financial Times: FT News Briefing • Fox News: Fox News Hourly Update • France 24: Focus • France 24: The Debate • Marketplace: Marketplace • Marketplace: Marketplace Morning Report • Marketplace: Marketplace Tech • Monocle: The Briefing • Monocle: The Globalist • Monocle: The Monocle Daily • NBC News: NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas • New York Times: NYTimes The Headlines • New York Times: The Daily • NHK: NHK Asian View • NPR: NPR News Now • NPR: NPR Up First • NPR: State of the World • PBS: PBS News Hour - Supreme Court • PBS: PBS NewsHour - World • PRX: The World from PRX • PRX: The World Latest Edition • Punchbowl News: The Daily Punch • Reuters: Reuters World News • RFI: International Report • RTE: World Report • SBS: SBS News Headlines • SBS: SBS News In Depth • TechCrunch: Daily Crunch • TechCrunch: Startup News • The Economist: The Economist The Intelligence • The Economist: The World in Brief • The Guardian: Guardian Today in Focus • The NewsWorthy: The NewsWorthy • The Washington Post: The Washington Post The 7 • United Nations: UN News - Global Perspective • United Nations: UN News Today • USA Today: USA TODAY The Excerpt • Vox: Vox Today, Explained • Wall Street Journal: WSJ Minute Briefing • Wall Street Journal: WSJ The Journal • Wall Street Journal: WSJ What's News

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Set boundaries

Decide which secondary features, integrations, and platform support can wait. Your version does not need to reproduce everything in the original.

Check the hard parts

Validate external services, specialist technology, data access, and ongoing costs for your chosen scope.

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BUILD KIT DIFFICULTY
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