Mind Your News

News you care about.

Most news is about someone else. Mind Your News is about you: tell it what you care about, and it reads the news all day and brings back only what touches your life, with a note on why.

You describe each interest in your own words, as briefly or in as much detail as you like. "I have an RTX 5090 and want to know when a good local AI model comes out that I can actually run." "I own a house in Denver; tell me what affects that." You can also write a few lines about yourself once, like your hardware, your neighborhood or your job, and every interest uses them.

From that, Mind Your News writes a brief for each interest: what to look for, what to skip, and what's worth a notification. It also picks sources to watch. As new headlines arrive, an AI editor reads each one against your brief and keeps only the ones that count. Then it writes the story for you: what happened, why it matters to you specifically, and what you could do about it.

The result is a short feed instead of an endless one, and a phone that only buzzes when something actually happens to the things you care about.

Questions

How is this different from a news app with topics?

Topic feeds give you everything tagged "AI" or "Denver". Mind Your News starts from your situation instead. If you say you have a 32 GB graphics card, a giant model you can't run is not news for you, and a small one that beats what you use is. Each story also comes with a note on why it matters to you, so you don't have to work out the connection yourself.

Where does the news come from?

Each interest gets its own sources: Bing News searches, RSS feeds from local papers and blogs, subreddits, Hacker News, trending models on Hugging Face and GitHub release feeds. Every link goes to the original publisher.

Who decides what's relevant?

An AI editor (Anthropic's Claude) reads every new headline against your brief and throws most of them out. What it keeps, it reads in full and explains. Thumbs up and down on stories teach it what you meant.

Will my phone buzz all day?

No. By default only the important stories send a notification, at most six a day, and anything during quiet hours (10 PM to 7 AM unless you change it) waits until morning. You can turn notifications off per interest.

What does it cost?

It's free while it's new.

Who made it

Mind Your News is built by Will Loughlin, as one of his 30 websites in 30 days. It runs on a small cluster of Raspberry Pis. There's a website and an iPhone app.