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7/24/2026
The original title is "I Built a News API Before I Had Users. Here's What I'm Learning."

The original title is "I Built a News API Before I Had Users. Here's What I'm Learning."

Original: I Built a News API Before I Had Users. Here's What I'm Learning.

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A developer shares lessons from building NewTqnia, a bilingual news API serving six delivery surfaces (website, RSS, JSON API, widget, new-tab page, timelines). Key tradeoffs include keeping the API deliberately small, choosing plain-script widgets over iframes or Shadow DOM, and modeling structured timeline events with editorial challenges around source disagreements and bilingual fields.

  • •Shipped a minimal public API first—two endpoints, no API key—to avoid unstable contracts
  • •Widget embedding isolation strategies each move complexity elsewhere; plain script chosen for now
  • •Bilingual content and structured timelines raise editorial and format interoperability questions

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