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Daily Brief by Meco — Personalized podcasts made from your newsletters
Turn your unread newsletters into daily, personalized podcasts. These AI-generated episodes summarize the key highlights, making them perfect for on-the-go listening or when you're short on time.
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@sean_mccarney1 would it automatically sync to all the newsletters (trust me there are a lot in my inbox) to identify key information and turn it into voice notes?
Seriously this is the kind of thing I was looking forward to
Hi @prad_vv , absolutely! Here’s how it works: We have a quick setup process where you select the up to 20 newsletters you want to include in your Daily Brief and choose your preferred delivery time (e.g., 9 AM). Once you complete the setup, you’ll receive your first Daily Brief right away, including stories from the newsletters received in the last 24 hours. From then on, you’ll receive your Daily Brief daily at your chosen time. We also offer an optional push notification as a reminder.
AI considers multiple factors to decide whether a story from a newsletter is worth including in your Daily Brief. For instance, it checks how many other newsletters in your inbox mention the same story, assesses its newsworthiness and ensures that it provides valuable insights overall. There are some other minor steps in the determination pipeline.
Let me know if you have any other questions!
@sean_mccarney1 Cheers to the team behind this! Wishing you all the best on this new adventure. What are you most excited about with this launch?
Massive congrats on the launch, @sean_mccarney1! I'm a big fan of Meco and it's great to see it on the front page of Product Hunt today. Easily the best tool out there to discovering and reading newsletters.
@owenfar Thank you!
With the free version of Meco you can create a new Meco mailbox address, a dedicated address for your newsletters. You’ll also get access to a ton of features that improve your reading experience!
Paid includes Daily Brief and inbox integration (and instant decluttering)
Hope that helps :)
Meco has been a mainstay for me since discovering it years ago and I make a point to share it with anyone who feels overrun but their inbox. So cool to see this next step into something I already can't get enough of – better ways of consuming larges swaths of information.
Congrats @sean_mccarney1 and @erimfranci
@erimfranci @orishnal Thanks so much Stephen for your continued support :)
@bonvisions Hey Bon! There is instant detection for newsletters and you select the ones you'd like to add to Meco!
You can read more how we ensure the highest levels of security and privacy in our FAQs https://www.meco.app/faq
Oh this is so helpful! Interesting how did you make it differentiate newsletters from other emails, it's amazing. Congrats to the launch @sean_mccarney1
Thanks @marilynwo - We have automatic detection for newsletters!
I love this app and love @sean_mccarney1 the man behind it - truly have rarely if ever used such a great tool for reading newsletters it's the best congrats Sean!
@sashadobrenko Thanks Alex for your continued support on this journey and from someone so respected in the newsletter game!
Great product. It helped me reduce the time I spend on reading newsletters without missing out.
Great to see some competition for NotebookML!
Meco seems a lot more polished and relevant to the content I'm consuming.
Congrats on the launch!
I've been using Meco as both an avid newsletter reader and also as a newsletter publisher for about 3 years now. It's a great product that helped me grow my readership and expand my reach, as well as being a really effective and efficient tool for managing all of my newsletter subscriptions. Well done @sean_mccarney1 for persevering with the product and continually finding ways to make it even better!
@rick_huckstep Thanks for your support Rick! Glad we can offer solutions for you on the reader and newsletter side! Keep it up with Wiser!
t's perfect for those of us who want to stay informed but are always on the go. I love the idea of starting my day with a quick audio briefing.
@sean_mccarney1 -Awesome! Looking forward to trying this feature, as it will save a lot of time. :)
@allen_xu1130 We start to understand what newsletters and what topics you generally engage with most and the highlights should improve over time!
This is the perfect solution for busy people, you can consume your newsletters while driving, walking, or doing anything else.
@minimalisthustler Thanks Jamie! We're big fans of your newsletter :)
Sounds like eleven labs on steroids, interesting. I used to put my stuff manually in, eager to try your automatic stuff. Supported!
@kurilo Thanks for the kind words! We actually share Carrot Care yesterday on our newsletter as we thought it was a cool idea :)
I think big newsletters having an audience of more than 100k subscribers would love using this
This looks awesome Sean and Meco team – I'm sure it will be such a useful feature and I can't wait to check it out!
@irturko Thanks Ozan! We love How Brands Win newsletter so means a lot!
This is cool - I have a few newsletters which i don’t need to read everyday , but I still want to consume the content maybe at the end of the week.
I recently tried the Google paper to podcast tool, and I can see how this can be even more useful for newsletters. Would be cool to create podcasts for several newsletters and de-dupe content since I sub to a lot of similar newsletters.
Congrats on the launch @sean_maccarney1 and team!
@tonyhanded Thanks Tony! These podcasts can include up to 20 newsletters and it will automatically de-dupe content!
Congratulations on the launch! I'm curious if you could share a bit more about how this works from a tech perspective. What stack are you using? And what were some surprising realisations you had while developing this feature – things that were much harder than you thought or way easier than anticipated?
@davidbauer Hi David, thanks for your comment! We experimented with various open-source models like Mistral and Llama to keep costs down, but GPT-4o-mini arrived just in time! For text summarization and transformation, we rely on OpenAI’s GPT-4o-mini. For text-to-speect we also use OpenAI (best one out there for our use case and scale). For generating artwork, we use Stability AI’s SD 1.6.
Some realizations:
- The AI landscape is evolving rapidly. You implement a solution, and something better or more cost-effective quickly emerges.
- There is no such thing as a perfect prompt; it can always be refined. Having an effective method for evaluating your prompts is essential.
- Every model we tested had its own limitations and quirks. While switching between models is relatively easy, we encountered numerous minor challenges to reach this point.
- Open-source models are great, but deploying them isn’t straightforward. Many providers offer pay-per-million-token or per-request pricing, which theoretically scales well. However, during our testing, we found that many of these providers either shut down their services or change their terms.
- Understanding caching is essential. Our challenge is that all the podcasts we generate are 100% personalised for each user, so they can’t be reused. As a result, we had to implement alternative caching strategies to keep costs under control.
- We’ve also come to realise that this is not a one-and-done project; the potential of this technology goes far beyond what we’ve accomplished so far. Moving forward, we’ll introduce many new personalisation options, such as prioritising or deprioritising specific topics, selecting different voices, choosing the length and much more!
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