Trace
Fu*k The Algorithms. Build Your Own Feed.
175 followers
Fu*k The Algorithms. Build Your Own Feed.
175 followers
Trace is a personalized feed that doesn’t fight for your attention.
It replaces checking Twitter, Reddit, Hacker News, and blogs with one intentional feed built around your interests and skill level.
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@tarat Congrats on the launch Tarun. Is there a negative keyword rule or allowed/disallowed times? Like "Keep Justin Bieber away"/categories like politics, sport, trash (cat videos)? allowing for focus vs fun?
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@zolani_matebese Thank you! 🙏
Yes — there is a way to do this already. In your profile → advanced settings, you can add negative keywords and adjust what categories you want to keep out of your feed (or keep very low-priority). It’s meant to give you guardrails for focus vs fun without turning into constant micromanagement.
Those settings act more like soft constraints than hard blocks, so the feed stays flexible but doesn’t drift into things you’ve explicitly said you don’t want.
If you try it out and it doesn’t behave the way you expect, I’d love to hear where it falls short.
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@curiouskitty If someone already has RSS, newsletters, and a tight setup, they can make that work — but it still takes ongoing effort.
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race is for people who don’t want to keep tuning the system. You read, skip, and interact, and the feed adapts on its own. One place to check, less manual curation, less noise over time.
The people who won’t switch: power users who enjoy maintaining their stack. If curating feeds is part of the fun, Trace will feel unnecessary.
In addition to the mainstream platforms mentioned, will more specialized or niche information sources be supported in the future—such as industry-specific forums, paid subscription feeds, and academic databases?
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@long_wang4 Yes — that’s very much part of the direction.
The goal isn’t to stop at big, public platforms. A lot of the best signal lives in smaller, niche places: industry forums, paid publications, research blogs, even academic sources.
The tricky part is doing this without turning Trace into a giant manual setup. My bias is to add support for deeper and more specialized sources once there’s enough signal to personalize them properly, so they don’t just become another noisy firehose.
So short answer: yes, niche and professional sources are planned. The focus is to bring them in thoughtfully, so they actually raise signal instead of increasing volume.
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@vouchy Yeah. Way too often.
For me it was usually Twitter or YouTube. I’d open it to check one post or one video, and suddenly I’d burned half an hour, felt overstimulated, and still hadn’t seen the thing I actually cared about.
That frustration is what led to Trace. I wanted a place where I could keep up with my interests, get the signal, and then leave. Not fight an algorithm that’s trying to keep me there.
Agnes AI
Nice tool to get awar from most of noises ! how frequent will trace refresh the content feed?
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@cruise_chen Trace has two agents. The reflection agent that runs every midnight to figure out what you liked and what didn't based on your interactions with the feed and a feed generator agent that runs every morning to curate a new feed daily for you :)
Congrats on the launch! Love how Trace unifies noisy feeds and surfaces only high-signal content that actually aligns with my work.
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@zeiki_yu Thank you! I am glad you find it useful
Swytchcode
Nice. How big is the memory for storing the info
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@chilarai using firebase right now and there is no limit to store the info :)