AnyTopic - Tool for finding relevant news

[misty shadow]

Hey Everyone - I've been building a tool called AnyTopic to generate newsletters about anything. To use it, just enter a topic that you're interested in and a description of what news about that topic you'd like to see. It uses AI on the backend to read through articles and find the most relevant ones for you.

I've been building it for a few months now and would love some feedback on anything you like about it or more importantly, how I can make it better!

I don't have any documentation to share for it, I'm hoping it's pretty straightforward. Some of the best newsletters I've seen so far: Anti-aging science, Space robotics and AI uses for mechanical design.

Price: free!
Website: Anytopic.io

AnyTopic - Tool for finding relevant news

[misty shadow]

July Update:

• Added the ability to subscribe to other popular newsletters
• Added 1k+ newsletters to see examples of different newsletters and see archives of previous newsletters
• Improved accuracy of relevancy scoring by ~2x
• Fixed bugs sending previous newsletters and welcome emails to spam
• Broadened search capability to find more relevant news
• Added feedback link to emails
• Added ability to adjust description within email

[vocal cave]

Can it be used to generate content in other languages?

[misty shadow]

Not yet, but it could in the future, do you have a use for that?

[vocal cave]

It's hard to find good content in other languages, I was thinking that the program u made might potentially have the ability to pick up on those hidden content

[misty shadow]

got it, finding articles from another language and converting to english, or converting from english to another language?

[vocal cave]

It's more gathering content from those languages all in one place from those sites. Although, you could add a feature to translate them also

[misty shadow]

Got it, thanks for the details!

• Gathering from other languages will be a larger project, I'll add this to the roadmap and reach out when we're able to spend a bit more time on it.
• I can convert English newsletters into another language a lot sooner, if you're interested in that sign up for one and send me an email and I can test it out for you. My email is [e-mail]

[tawdry abyss]

Nice, looking forward to this.

[vocal cave]

What translating software would you plan to use then?

[misty shadow]

There’s a few options I’ve worked with before, but I’d have to test them out when building it

[misty shadow]

thanks @steel eagle ! have you gotten a chance to try it out?!

[sweet bluff]

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[steel eagle]

Yeah u definitely got something here.

[misty shadow]

I appreciate that 🙂 Anything you think it could get better with or that you'd like to see?

[steel eagle]

Sure, you can improve the article sources. I am not sure about your web scraping approach but I found some articles to be somewhat specious.

[misty shadow]

Good point, thanks! its been on my list to improve the sourcing - is your experience getting articles from sources you know are less credible or is it once you read the source you recognize it's less credible?