Jolt

About the Product

Jolt is a Telegram bot for users to read Singapore news and to create their own personal news bulletins.

We want news readers to start discussions about news they care about and feel empowered by it.

Jolt uses slash commands to execute tasks.

/start sends the news bulletin.

/search initiates a news search. Use /search (your search query) to immediately get Jolt to search for (your search query).

/help shows the user what Jolt can do.

Jolt uses inline keyboards to build its menus.

Main menu - The main menu presents the user with a list of five of the top headlines for Singapore news from newsapi.org.

Sub-menu - Clicking to read the story from the bulletin's main menu shows the individual news stories that have been summarised using newspaper3k.

Users may also: (1) read the full story by clicking the "Read full story here" hyperlink; (2) toggle to other stories of the same topic using the story's navigation buttons, Prev or Next; or (3) return to the main menu with the Return to stories button.

Future Iterations

What we have now is a working prototype. We hope to improve and add on to Jolt's current capabilities. These include:

1.A user interface for news personalisation and scheduling.

2.Having a better user experience (UX), such as smoother tutorials for first-time users.

3.Being able to handle conversations in a casual or more organic manner.

4.Being able to subsrcribe to specific news tags or keywords.

5.Being able 'like' news stories to gauge its popularity.

6.Having interactive quizzes.

7.Enabling different types of content such as videos and podcasts to be easily accessible.

Product Demo