Building Above the Fold

Building software to breakout of the filter bubble.

After the 2016 Presidential Election, I built a side project called Above the Fold, (www.abovethefold.io), the website automatically aggregates the top articles displayed on the home pages of a diverse set of 20 news outlets and provides a single view of all the headline news at the moment.

My decision to build Above the Fold, came after the 2016 US Presidential Election when I realized that I had become too reliant on Facebook as my primary source of news. While Facebook is a great platform for me to stay…