alt Hacker NewsNeat, 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.
I'm in the process of figuring out fulfillment and shipping right now. I just got some samples from https://www.newspaperclub.com/ and they were pretty impressive. My other option is a local printing shop in my town. I'm visiting them later this week so we will see.
It will be in color. Broadsheet (350mmx500mm). 12 pages. Color.
I've been designing puzzles, etc.. myself. Using claude and chatgpt to brainstorm fun games/expirements/etc...
I don't have the site up yet. Waiting to get the first batch so I have some IRL images to add to the site.