Snapbyte
personalized email digests from HN/Reddit/Lobsters
Details
- External ID
- 46710074
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Snapbyte
- Website domain
- snapbyte.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 21, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Creator here. I built Snapbyte because I stopped having the time/energy to browse Hacker News / Reddit / Lobsters / Devto regularly, but I still wanted to keep up with things worth reading.Snapbyte collects posts from multiple tech communities, filters them based on your interests, summarises them, and sends you a personalised email digest on a schedule you choose.You can try it without creating an account (the homepage shows real example digests).Some implementation details: Runs as a set of small services on my k8s cluster. Scraping via trafilatura. Summaries via gemini-3-flash-preview. Mix of TypeScript / Python / GoHappy to answer questions, especially around scoring/filtering and what sources people would want next.Note: if this post makes it to the HN front page, it’ll likely show up in Snapbyte digests tomorrow.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- personalized email digests from tech news
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The service crawls public tech forums via RSS or standard APIs, scores/filters stories according to user preferences, uses an LLM to summarize them, and sends scheduled emails.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 51 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #52 of 52 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 82 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Mboxreader · hn · 2026-07-24 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- FeedSense · hn · 2026-04-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- I built RSS feeds for podcast guests, not podcasts · hn · 2026-02-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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