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Hi everyone,

I’m launching a small Indiegogo campaign called Feed the Swans today.

The reason I created it is because I keep seeing people feeding swans bread. A lot of people do it with good intentions, but bread is not good for swans and can harm their health over time. I wanted to create a simple, transparent way to help provide safer, more appropriate food instead.

The goal is not complicated: raise funds for proper swan-friendly food and basic support, while sharing updates/photos so people can see exactly what their contribution helped with.

I know animal/wildlife fundraisers can sometimes feel vague, so I’m trying to keep this honest and clear: what the money is for, how it will be used, and what impact it has.

Even a small amount can help. And if you can’t support financially, feedback, advice, or sharing the campaign would still mean a lot.

Campaign link: https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/brightnews/feed-swans-right

Thank you for reading, and if you have experience with wildlife/community projects, I’d really appreciate any advice on how to make this better.

Hi everyone,

Lately I felt like most news apps and news sites were pushing the same cycle over and over again: wars, politics, crisis, outrage, and constant negativity.

That’s why I built BrightNews, an Android app and Web app that offers a different approach: positive, uplifting, and constructive news from around the world.

BrightNews is a news aggregator focused on stories about science, health, people, nature, innovation, and meaningful progress. Right now it covers the US, UK, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, and Brazil.

The point is not to ignore reality, but to bring more balance back into daily life and make room for stories about progress, kindness, health, discovery, and good things happening in the world.

BrightNews is now live on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brightnews

If this sounds like something you’d use, check it out, share it, and feel free to tell me what you think.

Indiegogo link, if you want to support further scaling and improvement of the app:

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/brightnews/bright-news

Hi everyone,

Lately I felt like most news apps and news sites were pushing the same cycle over and over again: wars, politics, crisis, outrage, and constant negativity.

That’s why I built BrightNews, an Android app and Web app that offers a different approach: positive, uplifting, and constructive news from around the world.

BrightNews is a news aggregator focused on stories about science, health, people, nature, innovation, and meaningful progress. Right now it covers the US, UK, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, and Brazil.

The point is not to ignore reality, but to bring more balance back into daily life and make room for stories about progress, kindness, health, discovery, and good things happening in the world.

BrightNews is now live on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brightnews

If this sounds like something you’d use, check it out, share it, and feel free to tell me what you think.

Indiegogo link, if you want to support further scaling and improvement of the app:

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/brightnews/bright-news

Hi everyone,

Lately I felt like most news apps and news sites were pushing the same cycle over and over again: wars, politics, crisis, outrage, and constant negativity.

That’s why I built BrightNews, an Android app and Web app that offers a different approach: positive, uplifting, and constructive news from around the world.

BrightNews is a news aggregator focused on stories about science, health, people, nature, innovation, and meaningful progress. Right now it covers the US, UK, Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Japan, Australia, and Brazil.

The point is not to ignore reality, but to bring more balance back into daily life and make room for stories about progress, kindness, health, discovery, and good things happening in the world.

BrightNews is now live on Google Play:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brightnews

If this sounds like something you’d use, check it out, share it, and feel free to tell me what you think.

Indiegogo link, if you want to support further scaling and improvement of the app:

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/brightnews/bright-news

Hi everyone,

I’m raising funds to improve and scale BrightNews app I’m building as a hobby project, especially filtering of the news.

I started it because I got tired of how much of the daily news cycle is built around fear, outrage, politics, war, crisis, and constant negativity.

I’m not trying to pretend bad things don’t happen. They do.

But I also believe that when people consume only negative news every day, it slowly changes how they see the world. It can make us more anxious, more cynical, and less open to progress.

There are also good things happening every day: scientific breakthroughs, health improvements, community projects, environmental wins, animal rescues, acts of kindness, and people trying to solve real problems.

BrightNews is my attempt to give those stories more space.

I think us, as a society would be more focused on progress if we put our minds at ease from negativity.

The Android app and web app are already live, and I’m actively improving the app after user feedback.

Recently I added a “Not positive?” report option and started using AI-assisted review to reduce negative stories slipping through.

The funding would help me with:

- improving content filtering and review quality

- scaling the backend and infrastructure

- improving the UI and overall app experience

- expanding sources and country coverage

- supporting future iOS and web growth (licences, hosting...)

I’m building this alone in my free time, so even a small contribution helps.

If you like the idea, here is the Indiegogo campaign:

https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/brightnews/bright-news

And if you don’t want to back it, simply trying the app, sharing feedback, or passing it to someone who might like the idea also helps a lot.

here is the link for Android app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brightnews&hl=en