2,500+ US newspapers have closed since 2005. 213 counties have zero journalists. We built Port, submit a voice memo, photo, or text tip about your town and it becomes a structured article in ~3 minutes for about $0.05.
The pipeline: ElevenLabs transcribes → Gemini generates → Gemini reviews (checks claims against source material, flags gaps) → publishes. The review step is the interesting part, it actually catches when the AI hallucinates beyond what the source said.
We've got 68 articles across 15+ towns. Most are places where the paper recently died. The cost to serve a town is under $5/year, which changes the economics completely, you don't need ad revenue or subscribers to justify covering a place.
Not pretending this replaces real reporters. But for a town where the alternative is literally nothing, a structured article from a resident's firsthand account beats the Facebook post that disappears tomorrow.
Hackathon project by a couple students, rough around the edges. Happy to talk about the technical side or hear why this is doomed.
We have an ai system in place the reviews every piece of news and either edits it so that it fits the format or doesn't let you post before providing adequate evidence etc.
ToukoTok•2h ago
The pipeline: ElevenLabs transcribes → Gemini generates → Gemini reviews (checks claims against source material, flags gaps) → publishes. The review step is the interesting part, it actually catches when the AI hallucinates beyond what the source said.
We've got 68 articles across 15+ towns. Most are places where the paper recently died. The cost to serve a town is under $5/year, which changes the economics completely, you don't need ad revenue or subscribers to justify covering a place.
Not pretending this replaces real reporters. But for a town where the alternative is literally nothing, a structured article from a resident's firsthand account beats the Facebook post that disappears tomorrow.
Hackathon project by a couple students, rough around the edges. Happy to talk about the technical side or hear why this is doomed.
Here's Chesterton, Indiana — their 141-year-old paper closed last year: https://news.minir.ai/explore?town=chesterton
Main site: https://news.minir.ai