Hey everyone 👋 I built SIGNAL because my morning routine was broken — I was opening Hacker News, Hackaday, IEEE Spectrum, Reddit, ArXiv, and like six other tabs before I even started actual work. Half of it was noise. So I built the dashboard I wanted to use. SIGNAL pulls 13+ sources into one dark-mode editorial feed. Every story gets a clean card — no blue link walls, no algorithm deciding what you should care about. The part I'm most excited about: we surface stuff most dashboards ignore. ArXiv papers formatted for humans, not academics. USPTO patent filings in semiconductors and embedded systems — you can literally see what companies are building before the press release. GitHub trending, Lobste.rs deep-cuts, Kickstarter and Crowd Supply hardware launches, all in one place. Under the hood it's a cron-driven pipeline that fetches, normalizes, and pushes everything into a static frontend. No tracking scripts, no engagement tricks. Playfair Display headlines, JetBrains Mono metadata, grain-textured dark canvas. Someone described it as what you'd get if The Economist and a cyberpunk zine had a child — and honestly that's exactly what I was going for. On the paid side: Pro (~$6/mo) adds Reddit engineering subreddits (ad-free, fully compliant with their API policy), keyword alerts, saved reading list, custom source weighting, and RSS import. Builder (~$15/mo) adds a weekly digest email, a niche job board for hardware/firmware/embedded roles, and the full deal & discount board. Would love your feedback — especially on what sources or features are missing. This is very much a product I'm building in the open.

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The engineering news terminal — one feed, zero noise.

The engineering news terminal — one feed, zero noise.