Ancher - Your Chief of Staff for information to help you stay focused

@ryan_motiff Appreciate it! Please do drop us a line of thoughts, or criticism after you use it. We aim to quickly iterate, as we know the current state of our product is still a bit raw...

@ryan_motiff Thank you for trying it out! You can follow our YouTube channel to discover and experience more features. Our ambition is to create an information assistant that understands you - saving your time and empowering your ambitions.

@cruise_chen You got the merit and principle of our product! I'm so glad someone said something that I'm thinking for years...Thank you Cruise!

@cruise_chen Yes! This is what AI should be, partnering with you instead of doing all the work.

@ming_xu1 very well said, Jarod! You truly understand we're trying to solve here.

The most challenging part is that content platforms usually live in 'traffic' and 'audience size', which is inevitably based on attention. And people's attention isn't tied to a goal or purpose - as humans, we are very easy to be distracted, usually by high click-through, drug-like content, and forget we're pursuing originally.

We aim to break that, and build a new world and discipline. Very hard, but we're determined.

@ming_xu1 One of the important reasons is that traditional information-feed products rely mainly on advertising for monetization. We, however, follow a different model.

@charleschen0622 Wow — you really caught one of the most challenging points in building a news product in the AI era. Too many builders (especially tech folks) assume “summaries = efficiency,” but news has always been both an art and a science. It’s not just compression — it’s judgment, tone, and context. Editorial thinking still sits at the core.

After years straddling media and tech, I’ve realized there’s no fixed “right” depth or format — only context: who’s reading, when, and why. That’s why Ancher doesn’t force one-size-fits-all reading. It adapts — sometimes a 20-second brief, sometimes a 3-minute read. We haven’t fully achieved that yet, but that’s the vision — to make the shift of depth feel natural and invisible.

And your second question is even more brilliant — because it asks not just how people read, but why. Early on, I wanted Ancher to evoke “remove the noise, let me focus” — that calm “less is more” feeling. But six months in, I’ve realized that’s only 10% of the goal. The real challenge is: once you have less, more focused information — what do you do with it?

People don’t get smarter just by consuming better info; they grow when it connects to real work, decisions, and goals. That’s the feeling we’re chasing now — not just clarity, but usefulness. Maybe we haven’t built it fully yet, but we’re determined to get there.

Charles, thank you again for such thoughtful, sincere questions — they mean a lot. I’d really like to keep a heartfelt connection with you as we continue building this journey forward.

@simona_o_neill3 Thanks for your support. Our mission is to provide modern professionals with clarity, context, and control in a world of information overload. You can learn more about Ancher by watchingAncher Youtube Channel

@simona_o_neill3 Thank you so much! 🙏 That means a lot — we spent a ton of time making sure the experience feels calm and intentional, not just functional. So glad you felt that. Really appreciate the kind words and support! 😊

@sanskarix Thank you, Sanskar! It's a great question - pointing to the most important/difficult part of building a content platform.

In simple words, we don't force users to select so-called "interest tags" at the beginning. But we must learn a bit about you at first (your job, your role, your hobby, just a little something). Then our engine will build the "anchors" that fit your world (well, could be 90% accuracy to be honest), and then we provide all useful tools, agents, and interactions to help you not only read the news, but use the news to do something (like posting an insightful post on LinkedIn that's fitting your persona, like dig into a deep-dive piece to extract the key findings to your work reports)...

During this process, we have an agent to gradually learn about you - we tried it a thousand time, sometimes this agent knows more than ourselves. Yeap, most people can't tell what they actually want...

Hope this gives you a sense? That said, we're now just a v1.0 product. We still have many things to learn and improve, hope you will bear it with us together!

Thanks again!

@abod_rehman I'm so glad you mentioned the word 'mission'. Yes this is indeed a difficult area - from building a totally different product, a very rare approach, and very unpopular monetization potential. But from my heart I think someone needs to give it a try. That's why I make this.

Appreciate the input!

@abod_rehman You are right. Technology should make people more at ease, not anxious; more efficient, not addicted.

@kjosephabraham Thank you very much for your encouragement and support! 🙏 Really appreciate the kind words — that “don’t know what you want to read” part is exactly the problem we’ve seen over and over again. Most people don’t need more content — they just need the right one, at the right moment. Glad that resonated!

@shahar_shalev Thanks so much for your thoughtful and sincere feedback 🙏

You’re absolutely right — there was indeed a short system glitch earlier that temporarily affected how the feed loaded. Startups always go through these “growing pains,” and we’re no exception. But that’s not an excuse — your note genuinely helped us spot and fix the issue quickly. In fact, our tech team felt encouraged by your message — it pushed us to resolve it within the hour. So, thank you again for catching that and caring enough to let us know.

And I was honestly thrilled when you mentioned Perplexity — that made my day. From the very beginning, we’ve constantly asked ourselves: what problems has Perplexity solved, and what hasn’t it? Our goal is to go one step further — to build something more intelligent, more proactive, and more context-aware, so users don’t always have to initiate searches. We believe most people won’t (and shouldn’t have to) search 10–20 times a day. Instead, they deserve an intelligent Chief of Staff who quietly finds and surfaces the most relevant, valuable signals for them.

Really appreciate your trust and understanding — feedback like yours means a lot to us ❤️

@chilarai Thank you for your support! We’d like to invite you to try Ancher and share your feedback with us.

@chilarai Appreciate the support! Can I know what is the biggest impression our product provides to you?

Thank you!