I built HN Buddy to stop compulsive HN checking

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I built HN Buddy to stop compulsive HN checking is a company in show hn launch.

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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.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.Emailed myself for over 10 days now and helped me cut down on direct HN visits.It's been a learning project, so the code and AI summaries are always evolving.If you want t

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Website: hn-buddy.com