I often struggle to keep up with the fields I’m interested in. Sometimes I spend an hour or more jumping between tech news sites, X, and LinkedIn, only to feel like I’ve gained nothing.
That got me wondering: what if I could build a news tracker that gathers news from across the internet and just works for me?
So we built A01, your personal news agent that follows your instructions.
🙋 Tell your agent what you want to follow (go as niche as you like!)
🤖 The agent digs through thousands of credible sources—like The Verge, TechCrunch, Hacker News, NYT, The Guardian, arXiv, IEEE, Nature, Frontiers, The Conversation, and more.
🗞️ You get fresh articles delivered every few hours. Simple!
We’ve been building alongside 1000 early users, and here’s what they’re following:
Industry updates like AI, crypto, and fintech
Research papers in areas like physics, ML, and HIV
Market movements across different sectors
Our vision is bigger than just news. We want to give you control over what you read in today's noisy information world. We'd love to have you join our building journey. Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!
@shengkun_ye Hey Shengkun! Totally feel that hours on news sites but nothing stuck. A01 sounds like the fix I need, love the niche focus and solid sources.
A quick question, how well does it nail super specific topics, like “AI for indie game devs”? 🤔
@busmark_w_nika Hey Nika, thanks for the comment! Currently we haven't built fact-checking into our algorithm, although this is a very interesting idea!
Would love to know more about your idea of how fact-checking could be integrated to our app. Do you mean that the feed you want to see should be the one that contains information that is consistent with other news sources?
Hey Shengkun & team! Congrats on launch. Quick question - how it's different from chatGPT Tasks? I have setup exactly the same thing there and it works quite well.
@mr_coders Hey Guntis! I used ChatGPT Tasks a lot before we built A01. Super useful tool. With A01, we're trying to make the reading experience smoother. You can save articles to read later, and we're building more features like that so you can just enjoy reading.
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@mr_coders especially since 5.0 came out tasks has been glitchy. For a few weeks when they moved them from My Gpts to settings you couldn’t even add new ones only edit old ones for a new task. I’d rather have a tool that didn’t change the rules all the time
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I already downloaded the app. It’s really helpful to my current project, and especially useful for me tracking updates on the topics I’m interested in (stocks, astrology, semiconductor etc). Love your passion and I can see this tool can be widely applied to multiple fields!
Really neat concept — I like the idea of a personal agent that follows my exact interests. Quick question: how customizable are the tracking rules (keywords, sources, time windows), and can I exclude certain outlets or keywords to reduce noise?
@jaredl Thanks for the really great feedback! Our app's first prototype only allows a text query input from user describing what they want to follow on, but we plan to add more customizations later, such as time window, sources, as you described!
For controlling the sources, would a text based definition be more natural to you (e.g. "Only give me results from XYZ news"), or would a dropdown UI letting you select which sources to follow feel more natural to you?
@musa_molla Hey Musa, thanks! Currently our app doesn't consider credibility of each source when fetching the content for you. It only considers whether the content is relevant to the query text you input to each follow. Indeed our team is working on making the feeds more credible so thanks for your input!
In the current design, we want users to be in full control of what they see, so if you want to follow on credible news you can put your definition of credibility into the input query, and our agent will do best to fetch credible contents for you. Since if we filter out credible sources ourselves, then the news you see will depend on our definition of credibility, and not your definition of credibility, and we don't want that.
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👋Hey PH! I’m Shengkun, co-founder of A01.
I often struggle to keep up with the fields I’m interested in. Sometimes I spend an hour or more jumping between tech news sites, X, and LinkedIn, only to feel like I’ve gained nothing.
That got me wondering: what if I could build a news tracker that gathers news from across the internet and just works for me?
So we built A01, your personal news agent that follows your instructions.
🙋 Tell your agent what you want to follow (go as niche as you like!)
🤖 The agent digs through thousands of credible sources—like The Verge, TechCrunch, Hacker News, NYT, The Guardian, arXiv, IEEE, Nature, Frontiers, The Conversation, and more.
🗞️ You get fresh articles delivered every few hours. Simple!
We’ve been building alongside 1000 early users, and here’s what they’re following:
Industry updates like AI, crypto, and fintech
Research papers in areas like physics, ML, and HIV
Market movements across different sectors
Our vision is bigger than just news. We want to give you control over what you read in today's noisy information world. We'd love to have you join our building journey. Please let us know your thoughts and feedback!
Join our Discord community: https://discord.gg/NbkA2DssTQ
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@shengkun_ye Hey Shengkun! Totally feel that hours on news sites but nothing stuck. A01 sounds like the fix I need, love the niche focus and solid sources.
A quick question, how well does it nail super specific topics, like “AI for indie game devs”? 🤔
@shengkun_ye Good job mate.
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Can it also fact-check the information with other sources?
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@busmark_w_nika Hey Nika, thanks for the comment! Currently we haven't built fact-checking into our algorithm, although this is a very interesting idea!
Would love to know more about your idea of how fact-checking could be integrated to our app. Do you mean that the feed you want to see should be the one that contains information that is consistent with other news sources?
minimalist phone: creating folders
@hugh_sun I remember @Stepfun Diligence Check checking resources and doing an overview of what could be fact and what not. Pinning it like an inspiration here: https://stepfun.ai/docs/en/diligence-check?studio_code=diligence_check&studio_id=126421240326995968&studio_type=3&agent_type=2&ref=producthunt
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@mr_coders Hey Guntis! I used ChatGPT Tasks a lot before we built A01. Super useful tool. With A01, we're trying to make the reading experience smoother. You can save articles to read later, and we're building more features like that so you can just enjoy reading.
@mr_coders especially since 5.0 came out tasks has been glitchy. For a few weeks when they moved them from My Gpts to settings you couldn’t even add new ones only edit old ones for a new task. I’d rather have a tool that didn’t change the rules all the time
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@yuchengui Glad that’s helpful for you! Feel free to let me know if you have any feedback anytime
Congrats on launch, very interesting product actually!
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@goris Thanks! Let us know if you have any feedbacks!
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Really neat concept — I like the idea of a personal agent that follows my exact interests. Quick question: how customizable are the tracking rules (keywords, sources, time windows), and can I exclude certain outlets or keywords to reduce noise?
A01
@jaredl Thanks for the really great feedback! Our app's first prototype only allows a text query input from user describing what they want to follow on, but we plan to add more customizations later, such as time window, sources, as you described!
For controlling the sources, would a text based definition be more natural to you (e.g. "Only give me results from XYZ news"), or would a dropdown UI letting you select which sources to follow feel more natural to you?
GraphBit
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@musa_molla Hey Musa, thanks! Currently our app doesn't consider credibility of each source when fetching the content for you. It only considers whether the content is relevant to the query text you input to each follow. Indeed our team is working on making the feeds more credible so thanks for your input!
In the current design, we want users to be in full control of what they see, so if you want to follow on credible news you can put your definition of credibility into the input query, and our agent will do best to fetch credible contents for you. Since if we filter out credible sources ourselves, then the news you see will depend on our definition of credibility, and not your definition of credibility, and we don't want that.