I found myself compulsively checking Hacker News and wanted a calmer way to keep up – just one daily email. So, I built HN Buddy. It's an open-source project you can self-host.<p>The core idea is:
1) Fetch yesterday's top HN posts.
2) Summarize the previous day's top posts and comments, like I'd tell a friend.
3) Send it as a daily email digest to my inbox. I chose Listmonk for this because it handles subscriber lists, archives the digests (acting as a simple DB), manages unsubscribes, and lets me easily switch SMTP providers.<p>Emailed myself for over 10 days now and helped me cut down on direct HN visits.<p>It's been a learning project, so the code and AI summaries are always evolving.<p>If you want to see the last digests: <a href="https://hn-buddy.com" rel="nofollow">https://hn-buddy.com</a><p>The code:
<a href="https://github.com/herget/hn-buddy">https://github.com/herget/hn-buddy</a>