Inshorts found success by providing short, swipe-based, and conversational news with a focus on FOMO and social proof.
To improve, they need to enhance time spent, engagement, and ad monetization, targeting specific user segments like the elderly, hustlers, and campus trendsetters.
Competing with similar news apps and platforms like Google Discover and Instagram Reels, Inshorts needs to focus on unique concise content delivery.
Challenges include lack of insightful, engaging content, misleading summaries, inadequate personalization, and absence of productivity-oriented or career-related news coverage.
Maintaining credibility by avoiding clickbait stories and overly commercial content, while balancing revenue generation through ads.
Addressing notification overload and enhancing user experience with features like comments, personalization, gamification, and career news sections.
Proposals for combating fake news include credibility scoring systems, user-generated validations, and collaborations with fact-checkers.
Promoting balanced storytelling by showcasing multiple angles of news even within 60-word summaries.
Using data-driven approaches like A/B testing and categorical variables to enhance user trust, engagement, and content quality.
Recommendations focus on curating news based on newsworthiness, maintaining a no-bias culture, and involving users in the content validation process.
Strategies include gamification, personalization, and alleviating notification fatigue to improve user retention and engagement.