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digeston Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)

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.

digeston Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

I believe it was sold off and is no longer maintained -- their changelog shows no updates since 2023.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.

digeston Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (December 2025)

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.

digeston Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025)

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).

digeston Kagi News

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.

digeston GCP Outage

love how their status page is green with no issues detected!

digeston Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?

looks like auth is down for a lot of services, replit, lovable, macaly, claude, etc.

digeston Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025)

A daily briefing that bundles content from every source you care about into a simple newsletter format.

https://usedigest.com

digeston Ask HN: What are you working on? (March 2025)

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.

digeston Kill your Feeds – Stop letting algorithms dictate what you think

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.

digeston Ask HN: What are you working on? (February 2025)

digeston My Struggle with Doom Scrolling

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.

digeston Ask HN: Which RSS reader do you use?

Biased, but https://usedigest.com

digeston I ditched the algorithm for RSS

We have an X (Twitter) option that does not rely on RSS. I think Nitter is dead anyway?

digeston I ditched the algorithm for RSS

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.

digeston Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

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

digeston Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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

digeston Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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.

digeston Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?

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...

digeston Ask HN: What non-AI products are you working on?

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

digeston Ask HN: Show me your half baked project

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.