Hacker News · source linked
A provider changed the pricing behind your fallback route
Why it matters: It overlaps the margin decision in your filter.
Your own filtered firehose
Build your firehose. Read only what matters.
Add Hacker News, startup feeds, RSS, research, and other public sources. Paperboy ranks the stream against what you are building—and shows why each item made the cut.
- Any public RSS or Atom feed
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AI agents
API changes
pricing risk Ignore: funding gossip
API changes
pricing risk Ignore: funding gossip
Example layout. Setup validates your feeds and generates the first live cut before email verification and checkout.
01 Choose the firehose.
02 Define what deserves attention.
03 Get the rollup automatically.
The filter explains itself
Every signal earns its place.
Paperboy does not just summarize the stream. It ranks each item against your stated focus, links the source, and explains the match.
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A model provider changed the pricing behind your fallback route
Why it matters
Your filter names model margin and API changes. This item overlaps both, so it ranks above generic AI news.
Why the rest disappeared
Funding gossip and beginner tutorials match your ignore list, so they never enter the brief.
How it works
Three inputs. One automatic rollup.
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Build your firehose
Start with Hacker News or paste the public RSS and Atom feeds you already follow.
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Define relevance
Describe what you are building, watching, deciding, and tired of seeing.
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Let Paperboy set it up
Paperboy validates the feeds, scans recent items, ranks the best matches, saves the filter, and emails a secure confirmation link.
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Get the cut on your schedule
After you confirm the address, your filter refreshes the sources and sends the strongest matches every week for free. Start the trial to get it daily.
Founding beta
Free every week. Daily for $5 a month.
Preview the filter free. Confirm your email and the weekly rollup is free, with no card. For daily delivery, start a card-required seven-day trial, then pay $5 per month until canceled.
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Weekly rollup
Free No card required.
One edition a week after you confirm your email. No checkout.
- Your chosen public RSS and Atom feeds
- A relevance filter built around your work
- One ranked edition each week
- Links to every original source
- Upgrade to daily any time
Daily · seven-day trial
Daily rollup
$5 / month after 7-day trial
Card required for the seven-day trial. Billing starts after the trial unless you cancel.
Founding beta
Checkout availability is checked live. A preview or verified email is not a paid subscription.
- Your chosen public RSS and Atom feeds
- A relevance filter built around your work
- One ranked edition every day
- Links to every original source
- Cancel recurring billing through Stripe
Prefer to run the original local digest yourself? View the free MIT-licensed project on GitHub
Straight answers
What does automatic setup actually do?
Do I need to connect Gmail?
No. Paste public RSS or Atom feed URLs. Paperboy reads only those URLs.
Does Paperboy auto-subscribe me to newsletters?
No. Many newsletters require email confirmation or expose no public feed. Use a public newsletter archive/feed when available; email-only ingestion is not part of the live preview.
Which sources work right now?
Public RSS and Atom feeds, including Hacker News and many blogs, release feeds, and research feeds.
Is the first brief automated?
Yes. Paperboy validates the feeds, scans recent items, removes duplicates, and ranks them against your filter. Weekly delivery starts after email confirmation, free with no card. Daily delivery also needs the hosted trial checkout.
Do I need to wait for someone to set it up?
No. Paperboy validates and saves the filter automatically, then asks you to confirm the email address. No operator needs to approve it.
Filtering guides
How to tame the developer firehose
RSS to Email Digest: Turn Raw Feeds into a Filtered Rollup
Why raw feed alerts flood your inbox, how relevance scoring eliminates feed fatigue, and how to build a high-signal daily or weekly brief.
Read guideHacker News Digest: Filter HN for Signal Without Doomscrolling
How to isolate critical releases, infrastructure post-mortems, and tooling updates from front-page drama and funding noise.
Read guideHow to Build an Automated Research & Tech News Filter
A practical architecture for monitoring arXiv preprints, GitHub releases, and engineering blogs tailored to your production stack.
Read guideUse your actual feeds
Turn your firehose into a short list of things worth reading.
Automatic filter setup
Start your automatic rollup.
Choose Hacker News or paste public RSS and Atom feeds. Tell Paperboy what matters once; it validates the filter and emails you a secure activation link.
No human setup
Paperboy validates and saves your public feeds automatically. Confirm your email to start the free weekly rollup; daily delivery also needs the hosted trial checkout. It does not connect to an inbox.
Confirm your email
Verify your email to continue.
This link verifies the address. A weekly rollup starts right away, free. Daily delivery starts after Stripe confirms the trial is active.
Check your email.
Paperboy saved your filter and sent a confirmation link. Nothing will be delivered until you confirm the address.
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Setup 1 of 3
Choose what belongs in your morning edition.
Each source lane is explicit. This local preview stores choices in your browser and contacts no email, news, research, data, or GitHub provider.
Selected public GitHub reposOptional Repo Radar context using fictional fixtures below.
Choose 1–5 public repositories
Fictional demo-labs repositories; none are queried.
Setup 2 of 3
What deserves your attention right now?
Give Paperboy an editorial lens for the newsletters, public signals, data, and optional repos you selected.
Setup 3 of 3
When should your rollup arrive?
The values below update a local sample. No schedule is created and no email is sent.
Checkout handoff preview
Hosted checkout keeps card details off Paperboy.
This legacy design fixture demonstrates the handoff. The live subscription flow uses Stripe-hosted checkout after email verification.
Demo boundary
“Preview successful setup” changes local UI state only. It does not create a customer, subscription, invoice, or schedule.
Local account state preview
Your Paperboy rollup setup
Nothing is connected or subscribed.
This page renders fixture and localStorage state so account, privacy, and billing states can be reviewed safely.
Subscription preview
Paperboy Rollup
Repositories
0 of 5 selected
Delivery
Schedule preview
GitHub connection
Fixture connection
Planned scope: selected public repositories, read-only metadata, contents, pull requests, and issues. No provider token exists in this preview.
Privacy and retention
Local data inventory
Browser storage
Email, fixture selections, focus, schedule, and preview states.
Network transmission
None from product JavaScript. External links navigate only when clicked.
Provider processing
None. No model, GitHub, email, auth, or billing provider is called.
Retention
Until local demo data is cleared or browser storage is removed.