Mailbrew
Productivity
email digest
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 3 critical, out of 17 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstPricing: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for reducing notification overload with daily digests
From 3 comments
Cool product, could be good for people that want to move from constantly disturbing notifications to daily digests. What is the roadmap for supporting more sources and for…
luke14free on HNI'm a user of mailbrew when they launched their beta. Love how it makes all my reddit, twitter information overload bearable.
gczh on HNI absolutely love this idea! I've been consuming nearly all of my news out of my inbox as of late, for a lot of the same reasons outlined in the homepage (information dieting,…
buzzert on HN
Good for catching tweets from infrequent smart posters
From 1 comment
Nice to see Mailbrew on HN. Been using it for a while to make sure I get tweets from smart people that tweet rarely
0xferruccio on HN
Objections
Too expensive at $10/month for what it offers
From 3 comments
Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for to send me the X top stories from HN everyday but $10 per month is way to much for this. $10 per year is what I would happily pay for…
radagast on HNCool idea, imho a bit pricey for what it offers, I think per subscription billing would make more sense.
lnenad on HNLoving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion,…
irrationalactor on HN
Mobile layout is broken
From 1 comment
This looks really cool, but the UI is unusable on mobile for me. The layout is broken and therefore many texts cannot be read. I will check this out once I'm back at my laptop.
vbrandl on HN
Half-baked, missing sources like Product Hunt and Indie Hackers
From 1 comment
Loving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion,…
irrationalactor on HN
Requests
Bundle multiple newsletters into one email
From 1 comment
Is it possible to bunch all of the newsletters into one email? I was interested to try out about 5 of the recommended newsletters, but I'm not exactly thrilled about 5 news…
epsolos on HN
More sources such as Product Hunt, Indie Hackers, Designer News
From 1 comment
Loving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion,…
irrationalactor on HN
Scrape sites without RSS feeds for update detection
From 1 comment
Loving Mailbrew so far, but it's too half-baked at the moment for me to be willing to pay $10/month for it. For context, I happily pay for 1password, fastmail, workflowy, notion,…
irrationalactor on HN
Custom digests that others can follow
From 1 comment
Cool product, could be good for people that want to move from constantly disturbing notifications to daily digests. What is the roadmap for supporting more sources and for…
luke14free on HN
Questions
Roadmap for more sources and customized digests
From 1 comment
Cool product, could be good for people that want to move from constantly disturbing notifications to daily digests. What is the roadmap for supporting more sources and for…
luke14free on HN
How top tweets are selected
From 1 comment
Hey, how do you get the top tweets? Like do you especially filter those out based on no of likes/retweets? Also, do you have discover top threads of a person? Though, i think top…
sharcerer on HN
Alternatives named
Huginn
From 1 comment
I just set up something similar for myself with Huginn [0], took a bit to figure out how it works but I've been liking short daily summaries. This definitely would have been…
drampelt on HN
HNDigest
From 1 comment
If you're looking for only HN stories, hndigest does it for free https://hndigest.com/ (note: I'm the maintainer of HNDigest)
davidverhasselt on HN
Unreadit
From 1 comment
Unreadit comes to mind and probably is what inspired this service. Very cool. I didn't see anyone else mention it, so I figure I should.
desireco42 on HN
Feedly with Instapaper
From 1 comment
Actually looks like Instapaper offers an RSS feed of latest 25 items. So once can use Feedly to organize all RSS feeds, including pulling in from HN and Twitter, and use the…
heavymark on HN