Penny – Turn group chats into feeds, starting with caregivers

Re:Penny – Turn group chats into feeds, starting with caregi... by pbronez on Sunday July 26, 2026 @07:38AM (#49057078)

Cool idea. Hard problem. To do this properly you need access to all communications of all family members. iMessage and email would be needed for my family to really take advantage of this. That level of access would demand more trust than I'm comfortable giving to a third party like this.

Skylight is making some progress as a family hub of operations. I could see value in something like this in that ecosystem, especially if there was a way to control data sharing.

For example, could this run on my Mac, review all the data, then create a memory/fact feed that I can review and control?

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Re:Penny – Turn group chats into feeds, starting with caregi... by birudeghi on Sunday July 26, 2026 @07:45AM (#49057125)

Good point. The prototype is hosted by us on the cloud and as a one-weekend project I'm so happy it's gotten the quick attention! Grateful for your quick feedback :)

Control is definitely in the works, and perhaps it can work as a self-hosted solution (meaning it's open-source) but i think the higher standard is to let more people who aren't technical access to this tech, so that means encryption and anonymization.

But please have a go at running it on your side, since it's currently open-sourced: github.com/birudeghi/penny-1

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