Snapbyte – personalized email digests from HN/Reddit/Lobsters

Name: Snapbyte – personalized email digests from HN/Reddit/Lobsters
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Author: onatm

by onatm·Feb 16, 2026·2 points·0 comments

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The Take

Pick sources, select from 135+ topics, and get a short, Gemini-powered summary delivered on your schedule — the workflow is exactly what you'd expect from a focused digest. The implementation choices (trafilatura scraping, small services on k8s, gemini-3 for summaries) are pragmatic and show real engineering; what I'd like to see next is clearer scoring/ranking methodology and more source coverage before it unseats Mailbrew or daily.dev.

Post Description

Creator here. I built Snapbyte because I stopped having the time/energy to browse Hacker News / Reddit / Lobsters / Devto regularly, but I still wanted to keep up with things worth reading. Snapbyte collects posts from multiple tech communities, filters them based on your interests, summarises them, and sends you a personalised email digest on a schedule you choose.

You can try it without creating an account (the homepage shows real example digests).

Some implementation details: Runs as a set of small services on my k8s cluster. Scraping via trafilatura. Summaries via gemini-3-flash-preview. Mix of TypeScript / Python / Go

Happy to answer questions, especially around scoring/filtering and what sources people would want next.

Note: if this post makes it to the HN front page, it’ll likely show up in Snapbyte digests tomorrow.