Grasswire Is Now Open Source

We’ve been waiting for this day for a long time.

Grasswire has been about the community behind it since day one. We’ve continually been blown away by the level of time, effort and quality volunteer contributors were putting into finding, verifying, producing, and fact-checking the news.

Now we’re excited that the technology we spent the last 18 months building is open to that community as well.

The code that powers the current Grasswire is now freely available on Github, and will soon be joined by an iOS app that’s almost finished and an Android app that was created by an incredible user named John Feras.

Some time ago we realized that the level of enthusiasm and dedication within the Grasswire community had outstripped the ability of a few of us to ship features the users needed. Now we’re thrilled to announce that every aspect of Grasswire — every headline, every comma, and every line of code — is open to the community to make better.

Grasswire truly has become an open news source.

This continues building upon our vision of news that is not driven or incentivized by pageviews or clicks in any way, and greatly improved by the wide diversity and breadth of experience of those that are researching and creating it. As Grasswire continues to grow and develop we hope it will become a positive force for good — a place where people can go to find the news that truly matters, researched and fact-checked as all news should be.

Thank you again to the amazing community and the countless hours they’ve put in up to this point; we’re excited to see where things will go from here.