Show HN: Mailbrew – Automated Email Digests from HN, RSS, Reddit, Twitter
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1. A website agent that parses the Reddit JSON api (just add .json to a subreddit URL)
2. A trigger agent to filter based on your criteria (ex. minimum 50 points) and transform the JSON to a nicer message
3. An email digest agent to bundle the messages into a single email
Each one of these feed into the next so you go from the raw JSON to a nice email. Then you can easily just feed more things into the email digest agent to add more to it.
Let me know if you have any other questions, my email's in my profile. It was pretty confusing for me to get started but I'm getting the hang of it now.
Now that rss feeds I like and newsletters I like are in wordpress as a post.. I have a plug in that sends an email digest of what's posted...
What I like about my ghetto setup is that I can easily search and get "related" articles..
That's amazing. I would love to hear more.
It does this every week and emails a PDF to a friend to send in a weekly mail packet.
There are APIs you can use to auto upload and they will send the letter via the post. The problem is they aren't conforming to the rules like no staples, lots, returns, weight, etc.
There are also keyword filters and mappings to avoid some unfortunate article like "How to Kill A..." or some other clickbait that might trigger some kind of review. It would become "How to Hug A" and I kind of just have to keep track of those in my head.
It doesn't even support producthunt, indiehackers, designer news, etc. yet. I'd also love for the ability to scrape and detect updates to websites that don't actually have RSS feeds (no idea how to achieve that technically, but that is something I'd pay $10/month for).
Definitely going to try it out!
Anecdotally, there are also lots of folks that say they can build something similar without having to spend the money, but how often do they actually build it? And how much time would they actually spend building it? If the existing tool works the way I want/need it to, I'm more likely to gain value by paying for that existing solution than building it myself.
https://blog.gingerlime.com/2020/the-cup-of-coffee-pricing-f...
I still think the comparison can be a useful way to measure one's own willingness to spend money because it can highlight how the cost of something seemingly mundane adds up. My armchair theory is that people don't always think about their cup of coffee (or anything that, in the moment, seems like a one-off expense) in terms of the annual cost, but they do think of subscription services in those terms (rightly so). And contextualizing e.g. coffee-spending in terms of annual cost can be a helpful way to determine for oneself whether a product is worth it.
And yes, it depends on how that individual values things, and it may not be the right comparison to make for you, but broadly, I think the exercise of thinking about how habitual costs add up is helpful. And again yes, this depends on the individual, maybe this is something you already do and have been doing for a long time so isn't helpful for you.
I agree the comparison isn't accurate and should be examined in context, but I don't think it should be avoided completely.
(note: I'm the maintainer of HNDigest)
I didn't see anyone else mention it, so I figure I should.