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Too lazy to read my newsletters, so I built an AI that reads them to me

DEV Community: ai·Victory Lucky·about 23 hours ago
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This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 3: Slow and Steady

My inbox has 124 unread newsletters. I subscribed to every one of them on purpose. Neo Kim's System Design Newsletter teaches me something every day, and Gregor Ojstersek's Engineering Leadership is the closest thing I have to a mentor. They're important. I'm just too lazy to read them.

I am not too lazy to listen, though. I have a 40-minute commute to the office and my ears are free the whole way. So I built Unread : It picks up your newsletters to a private address, and turns them into one short podcast episode, with every story heard once, every claim cited.

What I Built

Unread turns the newsletters you never get to read into a short, private podcast.

Forward once. You get a private address like [email protected] . Add one Gmail filter that forwards your newsletters to it. Gmail sends a confirmation code first, so Unread catches that email and shows the code in the app.…

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