80% of tech updates in 20% of the time
Avoid the doom scroll. Get the most out of your daily updates. It's open source so you can quickly fork it for your own needs.
Once a day, I poke around the internet to get up to speed on robotics, AI, government policy & bills, and whatever else happened overnight. This often leads down several rabbit holes, and before I know it, I’ve achieved only a fraction of what I originally set out to do.
Hosting a podcast in tech means that things change RAPIDLY. But whether you’re hosting a podcast, or trying to keep your organization up to date on the latest information, you’ll know that it’s not easy to do. “The next greatest thing” releases and you must quickly discern if that is worth your attention or not.
So I opened up Claude and designed Up2Speed:
What it actually does
Up2Speed pulls from nine sources I actually care about. Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Dev.to, ArXiv papers, Lobsters, Wired, Ars Technica, TechCrunch, and podcasts. All in one dashboard. No more tab-hopping. And especially no more
Everything refreshes in parallel. If one source is slow or down, the others don’t wait around. You get what’s available, fast.
It’s early in development, but I already love it and use it daily.
The podcast problem
Podcasts have become one of my go-to sources of information for thought leadership and critical thinking when I can’t read. Driving in the car, mowing the lawn, shoveling the snow. I’ve also found that all of the news sources I pull from make no mention of podcasts that could be relevant to the topics.
So I made podcasts a first-class citizen. They sit right at the top in their own section. The Changelog, Syntax, Practical AI, Software Engineering Daily. They’re all there. And you can add your own feeds.
Filtering the noise
The real magic is in the tags. I built smart filtering that automatically categorizes content: AI Agents, LLMs, Robotics, Web Dev, Rust, Go, Security. You name it. Click a tag, and suddenly you’re only seeing what matters for your interests.
You can even create your own tags with custom keywords. Because my categories aren’t necessarily your categories.
It’s not as robust as I’d like (i.e. AI parsing), but it’s a start.
Why I’m sharing this
I originally built it for myself and my co-host / co-founder. I thought he’d think it’s cool, but his response hyped me up:
So I figure that if I’m drowning in information overload, other people probably are too. Product managers. CTOs. Podcast hosts. Anyone whose job involves staying current in a world that changes overnight.
It’s open source. You can run it as a web app, deploy it to Vercel, or even run it as a native desktop app. No accounts, no tracking, your settings stay in your browser.
Links to the code, example website, etc.
Code: https://github.com/intertwinehq/up2speed
Example website: https://up2speed-jet.vercel.app/
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