Comment by huevosabio | Hacker News Reader

Comment by huevosabio | Hacker News Reader

Neat.

But I want to go further to not only be a personal feed but also time limited and distraction free.

I want to build a feed of all the written content I follow. And every day it selects the combination of items that together make for about 30 minutes of reading. This should include blog posts, articles, tweets, everything.

It can use chatgpt to filter what is the most "nutritious" content, or whatever other tool, but it should give priority to valuable content over flame wars.

Then this should be delivered to my Kindle or my remarkable tablet. Away from colors and flashes and away from fast internet.

Finally, for step two, is I want to be able to subscribe to my friend's feed and get "guest" content from their feed every now and then.

I’ve been working on some side projects for this sort of thing. Would you be interested in trying out a beta of this? I really like the idea of adding some summarization with gpt and if others are interested maybe I’ll wrap it up and share it?

Now it’s just a simple JavaScript app I use locally but maybe I should make it cooler… this idea sounds cooler than what I was thinking

Absolutely! I would love to try it.

Would love to chat with you about this — contact info is in my profile.

Awesome I’ll reach out! Thanks!

I'd like to try as well. Contact details in my profile

Awesome, I tried to find your contact but couldn’t. Feel free to shoot me an email at jared@jaredbwelch.com and I will follow up!

This matches some vision of the early Internet and agents (having programs browsing the internet for you to do useful tasks). I thought it was Douglas Engelbart but I cannot find anything about agents. Maybe it was some other technology expert.

Microsoft (also?) said we would all have a dog or something sniffing up stuff on the Internet for us and bring it back. Back when Windows 95 was cool, IIRC.

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