UpBeat
an AI-Enhanced RSS/Atom Reader that only shows you good news
Details
- External ID
- 45956018
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- UpBeat
- Website domain
- mitchelltechnologies.co.uk
- Launched
- Nov. 17, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 6
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.27074235807860264
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Hey everyone, I'm Sean, and I've built UpBeat.Why did I build this?Well, the world is more complex than ever, and every stream, device and social feed screams for our attention whilst telling us that everything is awful.While it's important to know what's going on in the world - do we really need to be bombarded with negativity 24/7?Absolutely not! It's bad for our mental health, it's bad for our attention spans, and it's bad for society as a whole.So that's why I built UpBeat - My friends, loved ones, and I needed a break from the doom cycle. So, here it is :)Some technical details, it's a macOS app built with Go using the Wails.io framework and it (currently) uses the Distilbert model which runs on the Apple Neural engine, so inference takes ~40ms.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- rss reader that surfaces positive news
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a desktop RSS client (built with Wails) running standard feed parsers and scoring article text against an existing sentiment analysis or classification model.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Google killing RSS could render the app worthless, Uncertainty about RSS viability as an open standard
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 50 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #40 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 18 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.