the people behind this
digestbox is a solo project by Jonathan Gross. Every incoming issue runs through a small pipeline that extracts the distinct stories, scores them against what you've said matters, and only forwards the items that clear the bar. The rest quietly disappear.
I subscribed to forty newsletters, read three of them, and felt guilty about the rest. Instead of unsubscribing, I built a filter that only surfaces what I'd actually read.
A deterministic pre-filter handles the obvious yes/no decisions. Claude (Anthropic's Haiku model) judges every remaining candidate against your interests, one API call per incoming email.
Supabase (Postgres), DigitalOcean (app hosting + object storage), Mailgun (SMTP). Everything in the US region. See the privacy page.
Stripe billing, per-newsletter redirect helpers, a richer dashboard, and — if people care — a public digest-by-topic directory that's useful whether you sign up or not.
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