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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026) on Monday August 10, 2026 @06:20AM (#49241755)
I’m working on Digest: https://usedigest.com

It lets you combine the things you already follow like RSS, Hacker News, Reddit, YouTube, X, newsletters, weather, stocks, etc. into one personal email delivered on your schedule.

Recently I’ve been working on AI summaries for incoming newsletters. The interesting product problem is that once you combine this many sources into an email, there is a challenge to keeping the results finite and useful.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @10:51AM (#46276048)
I believe it was sold off and is no longer maintained -- their changelog shows no updates since 2023. We constantly update the platform, and have more sources available plus a mobile app.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025) on Monday December 15, 2025 @06:47AM (#46273247)
Working on https://usedigest.com — a personalized daily digest.

It aggregates data from across the web into a single feed, pulling in news, weather, newsletters, social posts, Reddit, YouTube, and more.

I also finally launched my first iOS app that goes a step further. During onboarding, you set your preferences once. From there, AI automatically prepares your daily digest for you. Each morning, you get a notification when it’s ready, with everything relevant for the day ahead: meetings, weather, health data, commute insights, and the news you actually care about.

Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @06:09AM (#45874779)
Been working on https://usedigest.com

- It's a personalized newsletter for you

- All data aggregated from sources around the web

- News, weather, newsletters, social media posts, reddit, youtube, etc. all appear in your digest.

- Launching a mobile app as well now but this will be slightly different than the web app. It will use AI to automatically prepare your daily digest based on preferences/settings you give it during onboarding. Each day when you wake up you'll receive a notification of digest being ready, and it will contain all the content you care about for the day ahead (meetings, weather, health data, commute data, news, etc).

Re:Kagi News on Tuesday September 30, 2025 @02:56PM (#45429632)
Thanks for providing RSS feeds for Kagi -- just added them all to https://usedigest.com so users can use this as a drop-in replacement for their news instead of adding various RSS feeds from other news outlets.
Re:GCP Outage on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:16PM (#44260902)
love how their status page is green with no issues detected!
Re:Ask HN: Is Firebase Down? on Thursday June 12, 2025 @02:14PM (#44260867)
looks like auth is down for a lot of services, replit, lovable, macaly, claude, etc.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) on Monday May 26, 2025 @06:30AM (#44095962)
A daily briefing that bundles content from every source you care about into a simple newsletter format.

https://usedigest.com

Show HN: Digest – Create daily briefings from any source (HN, Reddit, X, RSS)

https://www.usedigest.com/

Hey HN! I've built Digest to fix my own information overload. It provides custom daily briefings from the sources you care about.Most of us check 10+ places a day — HN, reddit, X, RSS feeds, substack, youtube, newsletters, weather, calendar, etc.Digest pulls content from all of them and compiles it into one clean email.Choose your sources, set filters, and Digest does the rest. It’s for people...

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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025) on Friday April 04, 2025 @10:18AM (#43582795)
I'm working on Digest (usedigest.com) which curates content from nearly any source into your own personalized email newsletter. It also has a newsletter reader built into it as well so all of your newsletters get funneled into Digest, instead of your email inbox.
This is spot on and exactly why I built digest. You bypass the algos entirely and are shown only what you want to see, not what the algos want you to see.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (February 2025) on Friday February 28, 2025 @09:04AM (#43205679)
I'm working on Digest (usedigest.com) which curates content from nearly any source into your own personalized email newsletter. It also has a newsletter reader built into it as well so all of your newsletters get funneled into Digest, instead of your email inbox.
Re:My Struggle with Doom Scrolling on Thursday January 23, 2025 @05:57AM (#42802799)
I built an app (https://usedigest.com) for this exact reason, I couldn't stop with the doom scrolling. I wasn't particularly looking for anything either, just swiping and swiping... constantly reaching for my phone even when I'd just stop to pee for 30 seconds I'd find myself taking out my phone and swiping. The app I built aggregates content from all the sources I was looking at and just sends me a daily summary. I've been able cut way down on this addiction.
Re:Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use? on Sunday January 19, 2025 @10:16AM (#42757704)
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:56PM (#42742573)
We have an X (Twitter) option that does not rely on RSS. I think Nitter is dead anyway?
Re:I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too on Friday January 17, 2025 @02:54PM (#42742549)
So this is why I built Digest (https://usedigest.com) -- the algorithms have stopped showing things of interest (my entire Instagram feed is full of memes instead of my friends posts), or things that cause you to doom scroll. We use RSS wherever we can to fetch data from sources to build your personalized digest, but if there is an API available we will use that too.
Re:Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader on Saturday December 21, 2024 @08:22AM (#42479501)
For those looking for something like this but that updates on your own schedule and handles more than just RSS, I built Digest - https://usedigest.com
I built Digest, which allows you to create a personalized daily digest containing all of the content you already read. Add content sources like Reddit, Google Calendar, Instagram, X, TikTok, Stripe, Hacker News, Weather, YouTube, Product Hunt, RSS, Google News, Stocks, Crypto and more. Content is summarized from sources using AI. Each day (week or month) you will get a newsletter containing updates from all of the sources that you added to your digest. I also recently added a newsletter reader to it, so you can get an email address that you use to signup to all newsletters with, and then Digest becomes your newsletter reader (and even emails you a list of all your new newsletters). https://usedigest.com
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @05:43AM (#41706375)
It is, Mailbrew ended up selling years ago and they stopped working on the product as far as I know. We're rolling out new features weekly and adding more sources and integrations. We're also going to be moving into B2B instead of just only targeting B2C with personal newsletters.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)? on Monday September 30, 2024 @06:10AM (#41695438)
Working on https://usedigest.com, a tool to curate content from any source into a daily email. No this is not just grabbing RSS feeds, we're using tons of APIs to fetch data wherever we can. The goal is to replace the mindless scrolling we all do on a daily basis and try to help people become more productive without the fear of missing out. You can consume the daily email, or read it on the web as we generate a direct link to your digest each day. Here is an example: https://app.usedigest.com/digests/share/b40cd659-bce5-4a38-9...

Show HN: I built a newsletter reader to declutter your inbox

https://www.usedigest.com/newsletter-reader

With the rise of substack, beehiiv and many other newsletter platforms, it seems like everyone is launching newsletters nowadays. I personally subscribe to 10+ but hardly find the time to read them amongst my other emails. I built a newsletter reader that forwards all of your newsletters to Digest, and removes them from your inbox. You can also get a daily email that contains a list of all the...

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Ask HN: How would you structure a CRM for scale?

I'm curious to hear how you would structure the architecture for an email marketing/CRM service for scale. Let's say you have 5,000 customers. Some customers have 5,000 or less contacts, some have 100,000+, some have millions.Are you storing all their data on one large database? Multiple databases? If multiple databases is there a specific way you're splitting up the data across these...

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Re:Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on? on Friday March 29, 2024 @07:10AM (#39862661)
Working on Digest, a tool for people to consume the entire internet via their own personalized newsletter. Currently working on adding more sources, but so far have gotten Reddit, HN, X, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, RSS, Stripe, Weather, Google Calendar, and Product Hunt added. You can try it at https://usedigest.com

Show HN: Digest – Create a personal newsletter with the content you consume

https://usedigest.com

As a personal need I have been working on building this over the last year. Like others, I often found myself in the middle of work, but taking breaks to read Reddit, HN, watch YouTube videos, etc. Those short breaks often turned into doom scrolling, and before I knew it I had wasted hours throughout my day/week.I felt that if I just had the content that I was already consuming bundled up and...

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Re:Ask HN: Show me your half baked project on Friday October 13, 2023 @05:32AM (#37868621)
https://usedigest.com

Been working on this here and there for quite some time. Built it out of a personal need to keep up to date with all the happenings on different websites without feeling like I was missing out. Planning to add many more sources soon.