WORK/CASE 07/FREESPOKE

FREESPOKE.

Privacy-First Search Engine & News Platform

FILE 07FRONTEND DEVELOPER2022▶ LIVE

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★ SHIPPED ★

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2022

// HEADLINE

trackers, by design

// ROLE

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Frontend Developer

// FILE

Case 07 of 07

// YEAR

2022

THE OVERVIEW.

// 01 CONTEXT

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Privacy-First Search Engine & News Platform.

Worked as a frontend developer on Freespoke, a search engine and news aggregation platform designed as an alternative to Google. Co-founded by Todd Ricketts (co-owner of the Chicago Cubs) and Kristin Jackson, Freespoke delivers unfiltered search results alongside news stories labeled by perspective (Left, Middle, Right), with a strong emphasis on user privacy — no tracking, no data selling, no content suppression.

WHAT I BUILT.

// 02 SURFACES

The platform features a full search engine interface with web, news, image, and video results, a news aggregation system that categorizes stories by editorial perspective, a Censored Stories discovery section surfacing underreported content, Chrome browser extension for default search integration, and a responsive UI designed to handle real-time search queries with rich, multi-source result layouts.

The frontend needed to present complex, multi-perspective information clearly and intuitively while maintaining fast load times critical for a search engine experience.