The Start-up Standard
People & productTuesday edition
Start-up Nidget Called a Game Changer for Journalists
A new publishing workflow puts interactive storytelling in the hands of the people reporting the story.
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Interactive publishing, without the production drag
Make every story move.
Nidget gives editorial teams one place to create, publish and measure interactive stories—no developer queue required.
Built for WordPress and ready for any CMS
NDaily HarbourLive
Workspace
Widgets
Recent
Analytics
Templates
Climate · Explainer
How your suburb is changing
Temperature since 1950
Interactive chart1950Today
Reader interactions
2,841
Completion rate
74%
Ready to publishAll checks passed
Made for essential publishing
Why we built Nidget
Extra, extra: interactive publishing has left the specialist desk.
We built Nidget to replace that chain with one simple workflow—giving the whole newsroom the power to create, publish and measure interactive components.
The Digital Dispatch
AudienceWeekend report
Digital Publication Boosts Time Spent on Page by 300% After Introducing Widgets
Longer, more engaged visits create more viewable ad opportunities—and give commercial teams a stronger sponsorship story.
The publisher credits a repeatable widget workflow—not a single novelty format. Editors could match each story with a useful interaction, while longer sessions gave the business more valuable inventory and better evidence for premium campaigns. The result was stronger reader retention with a clearer path to sustainable revenue.
“The widgets helped readers understand the story—and made every visit more valuable.”
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The Newsroom Ledger
OperationsLate city final
Three Tools Entered the Newsroom. One Nidget Workflow Left.
The awkward chain of specialist products is making way for one governed system journalists can actually use.
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Visual stories
Build galleries, comparisons, timelines and maps from flexible visual primitives, then tailor each one to the story without starting from scratch.
Reader participation
Nidget lets anyone in the newsroom create audience-engagement widgets. Each widget can have its own data store for responses, results and richer reader experiences.
Your publication, built in
Manage publication fonts, colours and light or dark themes in one place. Every widget inherits the system, so new work stays recognisably on brand.
Useful analytics
Follow views, interactions, completion and publishing locations from one dashboard, so editors can see which stories and formats earn attention.
Safe publishing
Draft, preview and version every change before it reaches readers. Restore an earlier version or promote reviewed work without breaking the live embed.
One clean embed
Publish one stable, responsive embed to WordPress or any CMS. Future updates flow through without asking editors to replace code on the story page.
Put the whole workflow in your hands.
Create and publish unlimited standard widgets on the Free plan.
Example widgets
See what you could publish in seconds.
Explore a few of the formats editors can build, brand and publish from the Nidget workspace.
Before and after
Drag the handle to compare two moments in the same place.
Restored · 2026Before · 2014
Drag anywhere across the image
Reader poll
Collect a quick signal and show the result immediately.
Should George Street stay closed to cars?
Choose an answer to see the live result.
Story quiz
Turn key details into a memorable reader challenge.
Which animal is the world’s largest marsupial?
Audio playback
Pair reporting with interviews, narration or ambient sound.
Field notes · Sydney
Why stories feel different when you can hear them
A short Nidget audio preview
Listen to the sample
0:00 / 0:00
Annotated choropleth map
Shade regions by value, then add the context readers need.
Who won each seat in 2025?
Final House of Representatives winners across all 150 federal electorates.
Labor 94Coalition 43Greens 1Crossbench 12
Hover or select an electorate to see its winnerResults: Australian Electoral Commission
Multi-series line chart
Compare several trends and let readers inspect every point.
Illustrative workflow
The prototype is quick. The lifecycle isn’t.
A vibe-coded tool saves time on day one. The gap closes when publishing, security and maintenance become part of the job.
Vibe-coded toolThree tools chained togetherNidget
Maintain · 15 hoursVibe-coded tool
Fastest route to a working prototype.
Who checks authentication, data access and dependencies?
Every quick fix becomes something else to maintain.
Illustrative data. The security and maintenance risks are real.
| Stage | Vibe-coded tool | Three tools chained together | Nidget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prototype | 0.5 hours | 2 hours | 1.5 hours |
| Connect | 1.5 hours | 4.5 hours | 2.5 hours |
| Publish | 3 hours | 7.5 hours | 3.5 hours |
| Fixes | 8 hours | 11.5 hours | 4.5 hours |
| Maintain | 15 hours | 16 hours | 5.5 hours |
iMessage-style conversation
Recreate sourced message exchanges in a familiar format.
CD
Civic desk source
iMessage
Today · Recreated conversation
The council vote has moved to tonight.
4:12 pm
Can we confirm the new time?
4:13 pm
6:30 pm. Agenda item 14.
4:14 pm
Confirmed — updating the live blog now.
4:15 pm
Clearly labelled as a recreated conversation for editorial transparency.
Interactive timeline
Turn a sequence of events into a clear, explorable narrative.
Flood response · Tuesday
How the warning unfolded
Three low-lying crossings close as water reaches the northern catchment.
Select any moment to expand the reporting.
Build your own with React
Use approved packages and publishing guardrails when templates aren’t enough.
widget.tsx
function CostImpact() {
const [weekly, setWeekly] = useState(35)
return (
<>
<Range value={weekly} onChange={setWeekly} />
<Result value={weekly * 52} />
</>
)
}Approved-package checks before publish
Imports are checked against your allowed package list, so unapproved dependencies never reach the live widget.
Live output
What does the price rise mean for you?
Annual household impact
$1,820
Your ReactAllowed packagesNidget hostingOne embed
There’s plenty more where these came from.
Explore the full widget library and publish as many interactives as you need for free.
Who is it built for?
Small teams with big editorial ideas.
From a single hands-on creator to a multi-title newsroom, Nidget grows with the way your team publishes.
Independent publishers
Add ambitious interactive storytelling without assembling a product team for every story.
Get StartedNewsroom teams
Give editors, audience teams and producers one shared workflow from draft to publish.
Get StartedSpecialist mastheads
Turn deep subject expertise into explainers, quizzes and tools readers return to.
Get StartedEditorial studios
Create repeatable branded formats and deploy them across campaigns and client sites.
Get StartedReact apps on managed infrastructure
Start with our template range. Go as custom as you need.
Every Nidget widget is a React app running on our Cloudflare stack. Your team can move quickly with our standard templates, while your developers can build fully custom experiences on the same fast, high-volume delivery layer. You get complete creative flexibility without taking on the infrastructure.
Templates when you want speed
Launch polished, proven formats without starting every story from scratch.
React when you want more
Give developers the freedom to create bespoke apps beyond the template library.
Infrastructure included
Custom work inherits our caching, scale and managed delivery automatically.
Trust by design
Publishing is live. Your workflow should be dependable.
Every change is versioned
Role-based workspace access
Stable, responsive embeds
Private asset handling
Made for the way publishers work
Nidget keeps the creative work close to editors—and the technical guardrails quietly in place.
Publish with confidence
Preview the exact live version, restore earlier work and keep canonical widget URLs stable.
Stay on brand
Workspace-level typography, colours and themes make every format feel native to the publication.
Know what resonates
Track views and reader interactions without adding another analytics workflow.
NidgetNOne connected workflow.