Digital Marketing guy here. $40 per month is pretty reasonable tbh, depending on what your zappier integration is doing of course and if it includes support on that. I made a small donation but I’d be happy to help you out with seo/e-commerce related questions or strategy advice. I wouldn’t want to charge

This is lovely! And I appreciate it's not like r/upliftingnews where literally every story seems to be "this kid is dying of cancer, but his teacher paid for his lunch debt out of her own pocket!"

TIL providing free services produces free quality assistance from the community.

You are a saint. Hope people donate.

r/UpliftingNews

I had a concept for a positive news tv network a few years ago. Get in touch with me if you want to discuss the potential. Good work!

Love the idea. Might I suggest you do a little work on site Accessibility? A quick look suggest that this site would not be usable for people with some visual impairment.

As an example: On mobile at least, on the homepage the white text on each article card does not have enough contrast against the image behind it in a lot of cases. https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understanding/contrast-minimum.html

If you use the Chrome Developer Tools, you can run an Accessibility Audit on each page which will raise some key recommendations around this.

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) has a rating system of A, AA and AAA in ascending order of how accessible a site is. You can see how to meet these standards here: https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/quickref/

AAA and even AA can be quite tricky to meet, but perhaps start with A? This would then make your site usable by people with various disabilities and associated accessibility needs.

This is fantastic. Thank you!

Yare yare happydaze

dark mode would be awesome. great job

If you wanted, you could make a subreddit that does the filtering by upvotes and grab the good news from there? Hope this catches on 🙌

Im glad you like it!

Thank you! I will look into that 👍🏾

"Hear me out...What I mean is by seeing other people's misery, we look at our own lives and think "glad that's not happening to me". Makes us feel better about our own lives."

I am with you 100%. I also think maybe people who are in tough situations can watch the news to feel less lonely like... its not only "me" whose going through strife and hardship.

My Pleasure!

Thank you!

I think a focus on short form content on YouTube and tiktok will drive a ton of traffic to your site. The kind of content you have is perfect for infobytes.

awesome! my feed is always so depressing, this is much needed!

Yes merchandise would be great! I really appreciate your kind words. I am planning on making more YouTube content about the articles on the website and once I have a few videos I think I'll launch a patreon or something similar, but for now I am just accepting donation from our contribute page.

https://happydaze.io/contribute/

Thanks again for the wonderful suggestion!

Well done!

You should collaborate with the https://www.warpnews.org/ site. They are also sharing positive, inspiring and fact based news.

hmm interesting. I will keep trying to adjust it or it might take a sec to update. Thank you again this really is a big help.

The link in your Reddit comment above is working.

The button on the site (and in the app) from the About menu is still not, but I’ll try again in a few minutes to see if it’s a propagation issue?

Edit: now the link above is down too. It worked once for me but now isn’t. I’ll try to make sure this isn’t on my side?

I think I fixed it! Thanks again for pointing it out.

https://happydaze.io/contribute/

Oh good eye, I will try to fix it!

Merchandise is a great way to raise funds, you can also try going the patreon/substack route. I'd be happy to send a few bucks your way every month to support this project.