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Haystack News Tech Stack
Free streaming news platform aggregating local and global channels
Haystack News streams news from hundreds of local and global channels in a customizable feed. The tech stack reveals a dual-platform engineering approach: React/TypeScript for web, Kotlin/Jetpack Compose for Android and Fire TV. The data layer (Snowflake, PostgreSQL, dbt, Airflow) supports ML feature work (PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn) aimed at recommendation and personalization. Pain points cluster around engagement, retention, and scaling a subscription business—suggesting the company is shifting from ad-supported free viewing toward premium tiers while improving recommendation quality.
Tech Stack 52 technologies
Core StackJavaScript TypeScript React Redux jQuery Node.js Express Python pandas NumPy scikit-learn PyTorch TensorFlow dbt Apache Airflow PostgreSQL Snowflake Kotlin Jetpack Compose Java C++ HTML CSS React Router statsmodels LightGBM XGBoost SQL Android Fire TV+21 more
What Haystack News Is Building
◆Challenges
- Improving user engagement and retention
- Scaling premium subscription business
- Strengthening viewer loyalty
- Maintaining data infrastructure reliability
- Scaling data infrastructure for growth
- Deepening engagement
- Improving data tooling
- Bd and marketing workflow automation
- Roi optimization across campaigns
- Data-driven decision making
▲Active Projects
- A/b testing validation
- Creator-driven affiliate program launch
- Subscription acquisition campaigns
- New features across product surfaces
- Develop new ad products
- Web and html-based smarttv apps
- Recommendation system development
- Ml feature development with embeddings
- Haystack news app development
- Feature development for reader experience
Hiring Activity
Minimal20 roles · 2 in 30d
Department
Seniority
Notable leadership hires: Head of Marketing
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