For 10 years I've been running a personal reading system — saving articles, filtering them with AI summaries, and posting the best ones to r/programming and r/webdev and here. That pipeline is how I accumulated 350k Reddit karma. It was never meant to be a product. It was just how I learned.
Then Pocket shut down. Then Omnivore. And the web kept filling with content nobody asked for.
Hutch is that system rebuilt as an app. The idea is simple: you choose what enters your reading list, not an algorithm. The TL;DR summary helps you decide whether the article you saved deserves an hour or five minutes. You're still the one deciding. That's the whole point.
v1 has Firefox and Chrome extensions (one click, Ctrl/Cmd+D, or right-click), reader view via Readability.js, TL;DR summaries per article, dark mode, and OAuth with PKCE. Hosted in Sydney. Australian Privacy Act compliant. No tracking, no ads.
Free for the first 100 users, A$3.99/month after that.
Open source including the GitHub Actions + Claude CI pipeline I used to build it: github.com/HutchApp/hutch-app
This is a genuine v1 — the advertised features work, everything else is roadmap. What I want to build next: a preference learning layer ("more like this / less like this"), Gmail integration for newsletters, and highlights. I don't know which matters most to the people who need this.
If you try it, tell me. Happy to get feedback.