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Smashing, the reading curation app by Goodreads' founder, shuts down | TechCrunch

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Smashing, an AI-powered news-aggregation app, is shutting down.

The company says it was unable to scale it into a sustainable product.

The app let users follow interests, submit content, and vote on suggested content to indicate relevance.

It had raised $3.4 million in funding from True Ventures , Blockchange and Offline Ventures.

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