I often struggle to keep up with the fields I’m interested in. Sometimes I spend an hour or more jumping between tech news sites, X, and LinkedIn, only to feel like I’ve gained nothing.
That got me wondering: what if I could build a news tracker that gathers news from across the internet and just works for me?
So we built A01, your personal news agent that follows your instructions.
🙋 Tell your agent what you want to follow (go as niche as you like!)
🤖 The agent digs through thousands of credible sources—like The Verge, TechCrunch, Hacker News, NYT, The Guardian, arXiv, IEEE, Nature, Frontiers, The Conversation, and more.
🗞️ You get fresh articles delivered every few hours. Simple!
We’ve been building alongside 1000 early users, and here’s what they’re following:
Industry updates like AI, crypto, and fintech
Research papers in areas like physics, ML, and HIV
Market movements across different sectors
Our vision is bigger than just news. We want to give you control over what you read in today's noisy information world. We'd love to have you join our building journey. Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!
@shengkun_ye Hey Shengkun! Totally feel that hours on news sites but nothing stuck. A01 sounds like the fix I need, love the niche focus and solid sources.
A quick question, how well does it nail super specific topics, like “AI for indie game devs”? 🤔
Hey Shengkun & team! Congrats on launch. Quick question - how it's different from chatGPT Tasks? I have setup exactly the same thing there and it works quite well.
@mr_coders Hey Guntis! I used ChatGPT Tasks a lot before we built A01. Super useful tool. With A01, we're trying to make the reading experience smoother. You can save articles to read later, and we're building more features like that so you can just enjoy reading.
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@mr_coders especially since 5.0 came out tasks has been glitchy. For a few weeks when they moved them from My Gpts to settings you couldn’t even add new ones only edit old ones for a new task. I’d rather have a tool that didn’t change the rules all the time
Congrats on the launch! 🚀 Do you surface why a certain article is included (e.g., highlighting keywords or the source’s relevance)? I think that transparency could build a lot of trust in the recommendations.
@talshyn Our current app doesn't surface the reason an article is recommended unfortunately, but that's a cool idea! Will discuss with our team to see how we can integrate that idea into our app.
Really neat concept — I like the idea of a personal agent that follows my exact interests. Quick question: how customizable are the tracking rules (keywords, sources, time windows), and can I exclude certain outlets or keywords to reduce noise?
@jaredl Thanks for the really great feedback! Our app's first prototype only allows a text query input from user describing what they want to follow on, but we plan to add more customizations later, such as time window, sources, as you described!
For controlling the sources, would a text based definition be more natural to you (e.g. "Only give me results from XYZ news"), or would a dropdown UI letting you select which sources to follow feel more natural to you?
How about those news which need to be paid to unlock?
Great question! So we use something called RSS to fetch the latest contents from major news websites for you. Even if some news websites guard their contents behind a paywall, they still publish contents to this RSS format daily. And RSS is free to use, and we use it to summarize news articles and bring them to you.
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Good vision.
Execution not good enough for me.
What business model do you imagine?
How do you plan to get access to content? License deals?
@david_berrebi thanks for trying it out and sharing honest feedback! we’re a small team of three working on this part-time, and we hope to move faster and make the app much better. once it’s ready, we’ll introduce paid tiers. the free tier will cover a limited number of topics, and the paid tier will unlock more. right now we use RSS to get content since it’s an open protocol. in the future, we’ll start working with creators directly.
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Huge congrats!!!! This is going to be so helpful-no need to endlessly scrolling or jumping through different platforms. Also curious, does it only send recently news, or can it also help dig up past stories? Also, I guess how it’s different from usual algorithms on social media, where liking posts just show more similar content?
@yiyun_zhao Hey Yiyun, thanks for your validation of our app! Currently our app delivers the news articles from the past 3 days to you that are matching your interests. In the future we might allow users to define how long of a time window they want to receive their news.
Also, I guess how it’s different from usual algorithms on social media, where liking posts just show more similar content?
Great question! Our app is designed to help you focus, and not distract you like social media does.
One difference between our app and social media is that social media's recommendation algorithm is not visible to you. For example, YouTube will recommend to you videos based on the videos you watched before, how long you watched them, and which videos you liked and so on. And their recommendation algorithm is designed to keep you on the platform as long as possible, which makes sense since they can make more ads money the more videos you watch. You won't know why they recommended a specific video to you.
Our recommended feeds are purely based on the natural language texts you input in the beginning on what you want to follow, and not based on your previously read posts, thus what you read can be more focused on a specific topic, and not diffused like YouTube homepage.
A01
👋Hey PH! I’m Shengkun, co-founder of A01.
I often struggle to keep up with the fields I’m interested in. Sometimes I spend an hour or more jumping between tech news sites, X, and LinkedIn, only to feel like I’ve gained nothing.
That got me wondering: what if I could build a news tracker that gathers news from across the internet and just works for me?
So we built A01, your personal news agent that follows your instructions.
🙋 Tell your agent what you want to follow (go as niche as you like!)
🤖 The agent digs through thousands of credible sources—like The Verge, TechCrunch, Hacker News, NYT, The Guardian, arXiv, IEEE, Nature, Frontiers, The Conversation, and more.
🗞️ You get fresh articles delivered every few hours. Simple!
We’ve been building alongside 1000 early users, and here’s what they’re following:
Industry updates like AI, crypto, and fintech
Research papers in areas like physics, ML, and HIV
Market movements across different sectors
Our vision is bigger than just news. We want to give you control over what you read in today's noisy information world. We'd love to have you join our building journey. Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/NbkA2DssTQ
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@shengkun_ye Hey Shengkun! Totally feel that hours on news sites but nothing stuck. A01 sounds like the fix I need, love the niche focus and solid sources.
A quick question, how well does it nail super specific topics, like “AI for indie game devs”? 🤔
@shengkun_ye Good job mate.
THEO Growth
A01
@mr_coders Hey Guntis! I used ChatGPT Tasks a lot before we built A01. Super useful tool. With A01, we're trying to make the reading experience smoother. You can save articles to read later, and we're building more features like that so you can just enjoy reading.
@mr_coders especially since 5.0 came out tasks has been glitchy. For a few weeks when they moved them from My Gpts to settings you couldn’t even add new ones only edit old ones for a new task. I’d rather have a tool that didn’t change the rules all the time
DeepTagger
Congrats on the launch! 🚀 Do you surface why a certain article is included (e.g., highlighting keywords or the source’s relevance)? I think that transparency could build a lot of trust in the recommendations.
A01
@talshyn Our current app doesn't surface the reason an article is recommended unfortunately, but that's a cool idea! Will discuss with our team to see how we can integrate that idea into our app.
YouMind
Really neat concept — I like the idea of a personal agent that follows my exact interests. Quick question: how customizable are the tracking rules (keywords, sources, time windows), and can I exclude certain outlets or keywords to reduce noise?
A01
@jaredl Thanks for the really great feedback! Our app's first prototype only allows a text query input from user describing what they want to follow on, but we plan to add more customizations later, such as time window, sources, as you described!
For controlling the sources, would a text based definition be more natural to you (e.g. "Only give me results from XYZ news"), or would a dropdown UI letting you select which sources to follow feel more natural to you?
Agnes AI
Looking for similar tool for a while, I like this one! How about those news which need to be paid to unlock?
A01
@cruise_chen Thanks!
Great question! So we use something called RSS to fetch the latest contents from major news websites for you. Even if some news websites guard their contents behind a paywall, they still publish contents to this RSS format daily. And RSS is free to use, and we use it to summarize news articles and bring them to you.
A01
@david_berrebi thanks for trying it out and sharing honest feedback! we’re a small team of three working on this part-time, and we hope to move faster and make the app much better. once it’s ready, we’ll introduce paid tiers. the free tier will cover a limited number of topics, and the paid tier will unlock more.
right now we use RSS to get content since it’s an open protocol. in the future, we’ll start working with creators directly.
A01
@yiyun_zhao Hey Yiyun, thanks for your validation of our app! Currently our app delivers the news articles from the past 3 days to you that are matching your interests. In the future we might allow users to define how long of a time window they want to receive their news.
Great question! Our app is designed to help you focus, and not distract you like social media does.
One difference between our app and social media is that social media's recommendation algorithm is not visible to you. For example, YouTube will recommend to you videos based on the videos you watched before, how long you watched them, and which videos you liked and so on. And their recommendation algorithm is designed to keep you on the platform as long as possible, which makes sense since they can make more ads money the more videos you watch. You won't know why they recommended a specific video to you.
Our recommended feeds are purely based on the natural language texts you input in the beginning on what you want to follow, and not based on your previously read posts, thus what you read can be more focused on a specific topic, and not diffused like YouTube homepage.