For the past few months, I have been building a small app called Krz Digest (https://krz.am) for managing the many newsletters I am subscribed to into personalized digests. At first, the idea was for only me to use it, but after thinking about it, I decided to swallow my anxiety and also release a public beta and see if anyone else has a use for it.

Why I built this:

— I, like many others, spend a large portion of my day reading and answering emails, so newsletters are a great way to keep to date with interesting articles and news. — I wanted something that does not overflow me with information, as I am subscribed to dozens of newsletters and my mailbox was getting flooded with them and moving them into folders lead me to start not noticing the newsletters. — I just wanted something to only send me one email every day just with a summary of the newsletters and have a nice interface to be able to read through all of them on my phone and laptop. — I also wanted to easily share my curated digests with colleagues as I built up quite an exhaustive digest, that had many newsletters for the domain our company was focused on.

Feature highlights:

— Unique email per digest, you can use this to directly subscribe to newsletters or forward them from your actual email. I primarily forward all my newsletters, as I already have to many I am subscribed to. — UI focused on reading my latest newsletters without having to click too much. — You can decide the sending schedule for your digest as you see fit. Daily, weekly, monthly are all possible and allow for timezone customization. — An appealing digest email, which does not only work for Gmail clients. — The app cleans up forwarded emails, so they appear as if they were sent directly. — You can make your digest public and anyone can subscribe to it. For the beta, I am limiting this to only 5 subscribers, but I will change this later.

I recently added a few more features, which are either not fully finished yet or I am thinking of releasing for a premium subscription fee: — OpenAI-based summaries for each incoming newsletter. — A public discovery feed, which shows all the public digests. — Filters for the incoming emails

Alternatives:

About a year ago, I found out, that the guys from https://mailbrew.com/ have an essentially identical product, which I used for a few months myself. The product is quite nice, but for my personal usage it did not work very well. I disliked the reading experience, the email formatting was broken for Outlook on Android for a while and forwarded emails did not look nice to me.

Tech stack:

The app is a React PWA hosted on Vercel with a customized Pocketbase (Sqlite+Litestream) backend hosted on Fly.io. I use Postmark for the emails and Cloudflare for DNS and some routing things.

I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions, so give Krz Digest a try and let me know what you think! And keep in my this is a Beta and there are definitely some bugs lying around. The landing page also has some placeholders for pricing, but I am not sure about the monetization of this. If anyone has any suggestions, I would love to hear them.

Thanks,

Arti