• by Ray Schultz , October 24, 2024

Smashing, an app that recommends content to readers, has emerged from beta and has been launched on iOS.  

The new offering combines AI and community curation to help people “find and share the best of the best in their interests,” says Otis Chandler, co-founder and CEO of Smashing. 

In addition, Smashing is launching Smashing AI Questions, that it says can help people become smarter readers by seeing all sides of a story.

Readers can also join a community of curators, including journalists, entrepreneurs, media executives and software engineers, Smashing says. 

“People online are drowning in an ever-rising sea of content,” Chandler adds. “With Smashing, I think we’ve come across a winning combination of people curating and an AI matching content to readers." 

Chandler is the co-founder and former CEO of Goodreads, which was acquired by Amazon. In addition to Chandler, Smashing was co-founded by:

• Greg Veen (co-founder of Typekit, acquired by Adobe, and MeasureMap, which was purchased by Google) 
• Michael Mraz (formerly of Condé Nast, Cool Hunting, and Hearst) 
• Dan Barrett (software architect & LLM whisperer)