Most "news apps" are built to be addictive. Infinite scroll, push notifications, red badges. The point is to keep you inside the app. breifd.it is built the opposite way: the point is to get you out as fast as possible, well-informed and on with your day.
A typical morning
- Email arrives at 7am, local time.
- You read it in five minutes over coffee.
- You know the few things that actually happened yesterday.
- You close the tab. There's nothing else to do here.
Informed is a feeling. Anxious is a feeling. They are not the same feeling, and most "news" optimizes for the wrong one.