Why I built Nuze

Most of us do not read “the news”. We read a brand. One homepage, one app, one newsletter — and with it, that newsroom’s sense of what matters today and how the story should be told.

That is not a small thing. The same day can look like a different world depending on which front page you open. A story that leads in one country is a brief in another. A conflict is framed as justice in one paper and as overreach in the next. Even when the facts overlap, the emphasis does not.

I do not think that is malice. Newsrooms have readers, histories and editorial lines. The problem is what happens when you pick one of them as your window on the day: you inherit the framing along with the reporting. If you try to correct for that by opening five more tabs, you do not get a clearer picture. You get a pile.

I wanted a way to see what the world’s newsrooms were actually covering — not what one editor, algorithm or habit decided I should see first.

The idea is simple enough to say out loud. If a story is being covered by many independent newsrooms, in many countries, that is a signal that it matters today. Measured coverage should decide the ranking. An editor should not.

That is the opposite of a scoop culture. I am not trying to be first, and I am not trying to surprise you with a take. I want the edition to reflect what is already being reported, widely, and then to put a short, neutral summary on top of that — including what each side argues, when there is a genuine disagreement.

Once the ranking is honest, the rest of the product can stay small. Ten stories. Then done. You should be able to finish the day without feeling that the feed will keep going if you just scroll a little further.

Nuze is a daily edition, not a stream. Each edition has ten stories. There is one for World, and separate editions for Sport, Money, Tech, Science and Climate. You read it and you are finished.

It is free. You do not need an account. It ships as a native iOS app and as a website — the same product on both, rather than a brochure on one side and an afterthought on the other.

I built it as a solo developer in Aarhus, Denmark, the same way I have been shipping cross-platform apps and games under the HeadToHead brand: one person, a small modern toolchain, and a bias toward putting something real in front of people.

For coverage to mean anything, the input has to be wide. Each edition reads on the order of around a million articles, across 64 languages, from tens of thousands of news domains.

Those figures are the point of the product, not a decoration on it. If you only watch a handful of English-language homepages, you are not measuring coverage. You are sampling a neighbourhood. The ranking only works if a story can rise because newsrooms in many countries, writing in many languages, have independently decided it is worth their day.

• Measured coverage decides the ranking. A story leads because independent newsrooms, in enough countries, are covering it. Not because I think it is important, and not because it will keep you on the page.
• Never first, always right. Speed is not the job. I would rather be late and accurate than early and wrong. If a story is still taking shape, it can wait for a later edition.
• Ten, then done. The edition ends. There is no infinite scroll and no “just one more” designed to hold you. Ten stories is the product.

The summaries themselves are machine-written from many sources, under my oversight as founder. I am saying that plainly: this is not a newsroom of human journalists rewriting the day by hand. The aim is a neutral account of what is being reported, including the arguments on each side, not a hidden editorial voice wearing a summary’s clothes.

I shipped Nuze on 1 August 2026, on the iOS App Store and on the web, after building it myself. That is the same practice I have used on the rest of my work: start with a clear problem, make a focused first version, and put it in front of real readers.

Alongside the apps I still build, I speak about entrepreneurship in Denmark. Nuze is the clearest version of that talk I can point to — a product that exists because I got tired of inheriting someone else’s front page.

If you want the product-side version of who I am, there is a short founder page on Nuze. The edition itself is free. Ten stories. Then done.