Show HN: UpBeat – an AI-Enhanced RSS/Atom Reader that only shows you good news

[seanmtracey]

Hey everyone, I'm Sean, and I've built UpBeat.

Why did I build this?

Well, the world is more complex than ever, and every stream, device and social feed screams for our attention whilst telling us that everything is awful.

While it's important to know what's going on in the world - do we really need to be bombarded with negativity 24/7?

Absolutely not! It's bad for our mental health, it's bad for our attention spans, and it's bad for society as a whole.

So that's why I built UpBeat - My friends, loved ones, and I needed a break from the doom cycle. So, here it is :)

Some technical details, it's a macOS app built with Go using the Wails.io framework and it (currently) uses the Distilbert model which runs on the Apple Neural engine, so inference takes ~40ms.

[shmaplex]

Nice work on the app. I hope that Google doesn't kill RSS therefore rendering your app worthless, right? https://wok.oblomov.eu/tecnologia/google-killing-open-web/

[seanmtracey]

Thanks! It's been fun putting it together :)

As for the death of RSS and Google's place in it, my view is just because Google wills it, it doesn't have to come to pass. It's an open standard, and it's my hope that something like UpBeat breathes a little bit of much deserved life into it :)

[wingi]

love the idea.

It already positive to offer an rss reader in this time.

[seanmtracey]

Thank you! Here's hoping it's not the last!