Brief — Your personalized news briefing, powered by AI

Thanks for hunting us, @fmerian! We're so excited to bring Brief to the Product Hunt community. We've been working hard to develop a product to help people stay informed in just a few minutes a day. With Brief, you can choose from over 25 topics to receive a personalized daily digest in your inbox every morning. You can click into any story and access longer summaries and links to the original articles, so its easy to dive in if you're interested. Brief is 100% free at the moment, and there always will be a free version! We're working on a premium version which will provide next-level personalization. Our goal is for Brief to become the most useful minutes you spend with content every day. Please try Brief out and let us know what you think. We appreciate your support!

@fmerian hi, I was a fan of Mailbrew from the start. Is Brief the next step for Mailbrew or will they continue to be separate products? Thank you.

@golear thanks so much for your support! Glad you’re onboard!

Thanks @bahar_ozkan! Brief has a few advantages on big media companies that make a huge difference in your daily content diet: - We report stories based on coverage from around the web, so you can see a holistic view of the story. We include mainstream media publications and speciality publications, so the story is presented to you with multiple points of view taken into account. - We cover topics that mainstream media companies don't tend to (we have 25+ today and are constantly adding more). Our goal is to make Brief a place where you can find high quality, niche content about anything you're interested in. - Our personalization isn't driven on clicks, traffic and ad revenue. It's driven by the content you express interest in and by the time you spend reading it. We also take into account your interests across topics to help inform what you're interested in. - You have full control of your content. We're adding the ability to add custom sources and to control where your information comes from, so you can see an entirely customized view of the stories and sources that you're interested in. Would love to hear your thoughts on this and let us know if there are any topics / subjects you'd like to follow in Brief!

@cygnusseo Thanks Joe! Happy to hear that 🙌

@andybeard I’ve gone on a similar journey myself, there’s just too much content to keep keep up with and it’s currently scattered across too many websites and social networks. RSS readers do help, but it’s still to much work to sift through. We’re working on advanced personalization and customization of your Brief so you can control exactly what content you see, what sources you want what to see content from and provide active feedback to train the personalization algorithm. I’d love to hear more about your process and what you’d like to see in a version of Brief that is perfect for you. Shoot me a DM on Twitter and we can connect!

@shraybans right now they are pre selected. We have specific sources per topic and global sources. What you requested is the #1 requested feature on our feature board at the moment, so we will tackle that next! Feature board: https://feedback.brief.news

Thanks @ecohen16! Any topics or subjects you’d like to follow in Brief? We’re adding ones for our PH supports this week :).

@bayazid_malikov Awesome Bayazid! You're not the first person to ask about stocks: https://feedback.brief.news/subm... We'll definitely add more industries to follow, feel free to request them or let us know here in the comments. Would you want to add a list of the specific tickers that you want updates for?

@radjay I want to add tickers but I also want it to search industries and any relevant content from competitors too. Not to limit the data too much

@alain_caltieri1 Thanks Alain! More local news is coming soon! I'm guessing it's time for Italian news ;)

Thanks @phreeksta1! Excited you’re liking it. Any topics you’d like to see added to your Brief? We’re adding topics for our PH supporters this week :)

@sjgold thanks for the feedback! We'd be happy to add Indie Gaming as a source for you, drop us an email at support@brief.news and we can get that started for you. Regarding RSS support and more topics, we're absolutely working on that and RSS is on the near term roadmap as part of our personalization and customization push. Stay tuned!

Glad to hear @dick_van_gelder1! Any topics or subjects you’d like to see added to Brief? We’re adding topics for our PH supporters this week :)

@ru_barksfield Thanks Rupert, and we've only just gotten started 🙌

@steve_ervin thank you and it does! We pay attention to the content you spend time with so we learn why you’re interested in and tailor your brief to you. We’re also working on more advanced ways to personalize and control what you see in your Brief :).

Thanks @oyvind_henriksen - so glad you're liking it! Would love to hear your feedback too. Any features you'd like to see added or topics you'd like to follow?

@jmif I'd like much more granular topics please, essentially sub-divisions of the current ones. I'd also like to get a weekly digest instead of a daily one. Maybe I could even train it myself based on a bunch of links and make my own topic, and share it with others using my own custom-curated weekly newsletter?

Really appreciate the feedback @oyvind_henriksen 🙌 We're working on a weekly digest and more powerful ways to personalize and control your brief (custom sources, more granular topics, interactive training of interests and more), stay tuned!

@elias_ali awesome! Keep the feedback coming :). We’re adding topics specifically for our PH supporters this week, are there any subjects you’d like to follow in Brief?

@jmif E-commerce/Product/CPG would be super dope! Another suggestion I have but I don't know how you would do it, a means to control fake news or inaccurate news. A worry I have when dealing with aggregated news is which of those sources might not be accurate/misleading or which of those outlets might have gotten something wrong. I find what twitter/X did was pretty cool in providing context, which is community led. Another way to overcome this might be doing a some sort of accuracy algorithm since I noticed you have a source count on your summaries. Possibly higher confidence for more trusted sources or if a news has a higher source count then higher confidence score. News lately has been about who's there first rather than who right.

@laurens_de_poorter Thanks Laurens! LLMs were the missing piece to tackle information overload, it unlocks so many features and use cases 🔥

Glad you’re liking it @scott_shapiro!