Digest

The problem

Keeping up with a technology means sorting through newsletters, RSS feeds and social media. It takes time, and you still miss what matters.

The solution

Digest is an open-source, self-hostable tech watch. Each user picks their topics, plugs in their own Anthropic key and gets a short, sourced digest every day or week, translated into their language.

• Custom topics: keywords, preferred or excluded sources, level of detail
• Web research by Claude: every item is summarised, explained and linked to its sources
• Deduplication: items already reported are not repeated
• Delivery in the app and to Discord or Slack
• Transparent cost: tokens and cost shown for every digest

Technical choices

• Next.js 16, PostgreSQL and Prisma
• Node worker with a Postgres-backed job queue
• Two-step Claude pipeline: research with web tools, then validated JSON formatting
• API keys encrypted with AES-256-GCM, never sent back to the browser
• Docker Compose deployment on a VPS

Status

In development.