alt Hacker NewsA newspaper for kids - printed and delivered monthly. Full of puzzles, math, nature facts, science experiments, card games, outdoor scavenger hunts, etc...
I wanted something for my kids to do for hours every month that is fun, education, and most importantly, screen free.
I built a custom newspaper builder along with it to help me design it. I'm not a designer so tools like phoshop don't ocme easy. This allows me to have different layouts for pages and create different re-usable elements.
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jt2190 • yesterday at 6:27 PM
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ryanisnan • yesterday at 10:24 PM
Amazing, do you have some example images of what the product looks like?
bobnudd9 • yesterday at 5:56 PM
A great idea!
Neat, I'm also planning a lil newspaper hobby project. I'm curious:
- what paper size are you going to use? Like full broadsheet size or zine size?
- and how many pages of content do you think you'll have, given that size?
- black and white, or color?
- where will you get all your content? Designing puzzles, experiments etc seems like it would take a long time
- do you recommend any printeries?
- anywhere we can follow your progress? I'd be super excited to see a first mockup
FWIW, as a web guy, I'm leaning towards designing my content in HTML + CSS and exporting to PDF at a certain page size, probably using playwright.