News Without Noise

All About Topico

Topico is a human-curated social news platform where people built and followed topic-specific news feeds without comments, memes, or the usual social-media interaction.

  • News links rather than personal posts, photos, or memes
  • Human curation rather than relying entirely on algorithms
  • No comments or direct messaging
  • Articles organized around topics rather than personalities
  • Users could recommend articles and build influence around particular subjects
  • Newsrooms could be public, collaborative, or limited to selected members

Instead of following people, users followed topic-based feeds called Newsrooms. A person could create a Newsroom around something specific like Los Angeles, climate change, movies, technology, or an election, then curate articles from different news sources into that feed. Other users could subscribe to it.

Features That Matter

The Reasons You’ll Love It

Newsrooms

Create your own customized newsrooms.

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Trend surfing

Navigate the connections of topics.

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No comments

They just add to the noise

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Easy Social Sharing

Share articles witht he people who follow you

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Recommendations

Use our unique recommendation rating

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Push Notifications

Get updated on the latest news

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News Without Noise

No comments

Our comments are more noise and a distraction from what really matters… the news.

Recommend articles

let people know your opinion through a recommendation.

Share articles

Share articles with your followers with the click of a button.

Trend Surfing

Start with one topic in the center. Topico then displays the topics most closely connected to it based on what was appearing together in current news articles. Tap any surrounding topic, and that becomes the new center. The system immediately generates another set of related topics.

Example:

#ETERNALS
→ #MARVEL STUDIOS
→ #CHLOE ZHAO
→ #ANGELINA JOLIE
→ #RICHARD MADDEN

Tap #CHLOE ZHAO and the whole visualization changes to show what was currently connected to her. Tap another topic and continue surfing.

MIP’s & Recommendations

MIP’s are the most interesting person on a topic of interest. This helps users understand who has the best articles based on community feedback.

  • Most Interesting Person

  • Community ratings

  • Points through recommendations

  • Visual guided UI

  • Recommend / No recommend

Visual UI

Beautiful design. Elegant interface.

Who Are We

Philosophy We Strive For

Topico vision’s is not simply “better news aggregation.” It is an attempt to rethink how people share and discover news online.

The central philosophy is: “News without noise.”

Topico started from the belief that news has been forced into social networks that were never designed for it. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit and others mixed journalism with personal opinions, memes, arguments, photos, self-promotion and engagement bait.

Our vision:

Informative 95%
Respected 89%
Accountability 97%
Engagment 90%

Team Members

Andy Walraven

Co-Founder / CEO

Erik Vidal

Co-Founder / CMO

Get In Touch With Us

News Without Noise