hexbrief - Six high-signal engineering reads daily.
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Hexbrief turns high-signal company engineering blogs into six daily structured briefs on systems, tradeoffs, and decisions.
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Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Shivam.
I built Hexbrief because my bookmarks folder had become a graveyard — 40 tabs and dozens of company engineering posts (Airbnb, Cloudflare, Stripe…) I meant to read and never did.
The problem was never finding good posts. It was that skimming 30 to find the 3 worth my time had become its own job — and half of what looks "technical" is a product announcement in disguise.
So I built a hard filter. Hexbrief watches a vetted set of engineering blogs, runs every post through a quality gate (is there a real system, a concrete tradeoff, an actual result?), and gives you six structured reads a day — problem, approach, results — so you decide in 20 seconds whether the full article is worth opening.
A few deliberate choices:
• Six, then you're done — a daily briefing, not an infinite feed.
• Quality over quantity — of 800+ blogs I've run through it, only ~157 cleared the bar.
• Free, no account, no ads.
Building it solo (mostly pairing with AI) taught me the hardest part wasn't code — it was restraint: rejecting most posts even when they looked good.
Live on Android (iOS next). I'd genuinely love your feedback.
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A weekly digest mode would be great for catching up on weekends without missing anything from the daily briefs.
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@t_ktas84785 That would be a great addition, Şevket. Thanks for the quick suggestion. 🙌
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Tried it on a couple of Stripe and Cloudflare posts and the six-brief format actually makes the dense architecture writeups way easier to digest in the morning. The tradeoffs section is the standout for me.
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@serdar948359 Thank you Serdar — this feedback genuinely made my morning. The tradeoffs section is the part I sweat the most, so I'm really glad that's your standout.
Would you be up for me featuring this as a testimonial on the Hexbrief site? Totally fine if not😀.
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how does it decide which blogs count as high signal, and do i get any say in adding or removing sources from my feed?
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@ece1085096 Hey Ece — Thanks! Right now, articles are filtered using a strict quality gate — real engineering problems, technical depth, tradeoffs, results, and lessons learned. Promotional or low-signal posts are filtered out. I myself have been a tech blog reader, and I was able to derive some parameters to judge an article on their basis. Purely using my experience.
Also, per-user source controls are not available yet, but they are on my roadmap. In future release, I would love to let users follow, mute, or suggest sources over time.
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A weekly digest mode would be great for catching up on weekends without missing anything from the daily briefs.
@t_ktas84785 That would be a great addition, Şevket. Thanks for the quick suggestion. 🙌
Tried it on a couple of Stripe and Cloudflare posts and the six-brief format actually makes the dense architecture writeups way easier to digest in the morning. The tradeoffs section is the standout for me.
@serdar948359 Thank you Serdar — this feedback genuinely made my morning. The tradeoffs section is the part I sweat the most, so I'm really glad that's your standout.
Would you be up for me featuring this as a testimonial on the Hexbrief site? Totally fine if not😀.
how does it decide which blogs count as high signal, and do i get any say in adding or removing sources from my feed?
@ece1085096 Hey Ece — Thanks!
Right now, articles are filtered using a strict quality gate — real engineering problems, technical depth, tradeoffs, results, and lessons learned. Promotional or low-signal posts are filtered out. I myself have been a tech blog reader, and I was able to derive some parameters to judge an article on their basis. Purely using my experience.
Also, per-user source controls are not available yet, but they are on my roadmap. In future release, I would love to let users follow, mute, or suggest sources over time.