BrainFeed
A personalized learning feed that redirects your scroll
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BrainFeed - A personalized learning feed that redirects your scroll

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BrainFeed is a personalized learning feed designed to redirect your scrolling habit and build compounding knowledge. Set a custom goal like "how to get my first 100 users," or drop in a link to that long article or YouTube video you’ve been avoiding. BrainFeed transforms them into a bite-sized, scrollable feed of cards that you can easily get through while waiting in a line. Unlike traditional feeds, BrainFeed uses spaced repetition to ensure you actually retain what you read.

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Hi Product Hunt! Arnav here, building BrainFeed with my co-founder Aasrith.

I try pretty hard not to lose time to feeds, but they usually win anyway. When I have a few free minutes, I inevitably end up on YouTube Shorts, and it feels terrible when those minutes turn into hours. Meanwhile, the things I actually want to learn just sit in a "saved" folder, never to be opened.

Quitting these apps sounds simple, but it doesn't kill the time and urge to scroll. Aasrith left Instagram and just ended up on TikTok. We realized scrolling isn’t the problem; what you scroll is. So, we built something worth scrolling instead.

You tell BrainFeed what you want to learn, or drop in an article or video you’ve been avoiding, and it converts them into short cards you can finish while standing in a queue. You can also see what other users are learning and join their goals. Instead of scrolling and forgetting, it uses spaced repetition to help you actually retain the insights.

We are officially live on the App Store! The best way to try it right now: create/join 3 goals, paste in one link you’ve been meaning to read but haven't got to, and see what it turns into.

We’d love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and whether BrainFeed earns a spot on your home screen.

 Huge congrats on launching🙌qq what’s the maximum number of links or goals a user can track at one time on the free tier?

Maker

   Thank you :) You can have up to 15 active goals, and share up to 15 links.

I just keep doomscrolling on Instagram. Does BrainFeed have topics such as finance, investing, and psychology ? Could it build my feed around those ?

Maker

 It does! All three are in there as categories, you just select them as your interests and the feed will be around it. The 2 other ways to have more control over your feed is by

  1. Creating goals: like “I want to understand futures and options"

  2. Sharing content from YouTube, articles, etc into BrainFeed

You can do one or all of these.
Let me know if it helps with the doomscrolling!

Maker

Hi Product Hunt! I'm Aasrith.

One of the things we cared a lot about while building BrainFeed was making AI generated learning feel transparent.

Our cards include source links, so you can see where the information comes from and explore the original material whenever you want.

We want to push AI as far as it goes in personalising learning, but it shouldn't be a black box.

Would love to hear what you think!

the reframe here is smart, scrolling isn't really the addiction, it's just the easiest habit to fall into when you're bored. question on the spaced repetition part - if I drop in a one-off article I've been avoiding, does it actually resurface cards from that specific piece a few days later, or is spaced repetition only tied to the ongoing goals? curious how it decides what's worth bringing back

Maker
 You decide whats worth bringing back. You simply double tap on the card to enroll it for spaced repetition and brainfeed takes care of it through a gamified experience (we call it the star field). The article you drop would be split into topics, so you would get to choose which topics are worth it.

Turning saved articles and videos into a feed is useful, but how does BrainFeed prevent bite-sized cards from losing important context or nuance from the original source?

Maker
That's a good question! The video you share to brainfeed would be broken down into ordered topics (each topic is a root card + deep dive cards). So when you're scrolling, you see the root card, and you can swipe left to go deeper into the topic. On a side note, we break down the article/video's transcript into smaller parts for generating the content too. This ensures the LLM pipeline doesn't lose the important context.

how do you keep the root card concise while preserving enough context for the deep-dive cards?

Maker
The deep dive cards are also concise, they give the depth to the root card. All the cards are designed to be consumed in the easiest manner, so the no.of cards would go up to preserve the context rather than the no.of words on the card

Dropped in a 30-minute YouTube video I'd been putting off and it actually broke it into manageable cards I could get through on my coffee break. The spaced repetition part is what sold me, I remember more after one session than I do from skimming a dozen articles.

Maker

 Thats amazing! The star field will take care of the spaced repetition. You could also browse through the goals we have and see if you find something interesting or create one yourself

Congrats on the launch, guys!

Maker

 Thank you so much!

Been using BrainFeed for a few weeks now and it helps expand my knowledge in areas I have genuine interest in. It's always a better alternative than doom scrolling!

Maker
Thank you! happy to hear that you find it useful! Have you tried sharing brainfeed an article you've been meaning to get to?

 not yet, I will try that out!

Love the concept! Any plans to launch the android version soon?

Maker
Hi Swayam! We're running the closed testing for Android right now, you can install it using this: It'll be available on the playstore in 2 weeks