I created HitByWords this year, an iOS app which helps people explore news with Google Trends.
This is totally a passion project since I got a day job and only can spend my spare time building it. Due to serious time and budget constrains, I am only able to develop this app piece by piece. Though I am very enjoy the process :)
The motivation to build this app is I read news everyday but sometimes I cannot relate some reports. But I feel if a report is published by a credible news source, the event or accident is supposed to be crucial for some people in the world and I should feel sympathy. Like today an astronaut phones wrong number from space and I found people in London, Birmingham and Manchester have high interest in "Tim Peake" through Google Trends, which makes me feel this is a real thing.
I still have a lot of ideas to implement and try to make this app a better tool to explore news.
Hope my explanation is clear enough since English is not my first language.
Questions, comments, and suggestions are welcomed.
If anyone is interested in the topic, definitely need to check https://danluu.com/look-stupid/.