Most feeds keep you scrolling — filled with algorithmic junk, drug-like short videos, and endless echo chambers. Ancher, instead, keeps you growing. It helps you anchor what matters — learning your intent, filtering the noise, and delivering insights that help you think and act. In Do Mode, explore both sides of a story, see how people react, turn articles into your own post, or let Ancher watch it for you — alerting you when a real breakthrough lands.
For most of my career, I've built digital news products used by hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. — AOL, Huffpost, Yahoo News, and most recently NewsBreak.
We made it easier than ever to access information — breaking news in seconds, personalized feeds, infinite scrolls. It was powerful, fast, and addictive.
But after years of building in those systems, something started to bother me.
People weren't getting smarter — they were getting tired.
The systems kept optimizing for attention, not understanding.
We taught algorithms how to chase clicks or watch time, but we never taught them how to serve meaning.
One day, my father — a lifelong engineer who values time and clarity above all — asked me a question that made me completely pause.
He was ill then, and we were finally spending quiet days together after years apart.
He looked at me and said:
“You’ve spent your life building news stuff. That's great.
But why is it that the more we read, the more it feels like we've wasted our time?”
That question hit harder than any investor pitch or user feedback I've ever heard.
Because it was true — we’re surrounded by content that keeps us busy, but not better informed.
We scroll endlessly, but retain almost nothing.
That moment became the starting point of Ancher — a project to rebuild our relationship with information from the ground up.
Ancher isn't just another feed.
🧭 What Ancher does
Ancher is an intelligent information assistant that learns your intent — even when you can't clearly define it.
In fact, most people aren't able to articulate exactly what they want to follow, and they shouldn't have to.
Just say a few words, or a simple sentence about what's on your mind — and Ancher understands who you are, what matters now, and where your attention should go.
At its core is the concept of an Anchor — a living, intelligent node that represents something you care about: a topic, a person, an event, or a question. Each Anchor learns, updates, and acts for you — keeping your understanding connected and alive over time.
Ancher reads for you — distilling the world's noise into what truly matters for your goals.
It keeps watch — tracking key events or trends from your angle, and only alerting you when something truly changes.
It helps you remember — turning everything you read into structured, recallable knowledge.
And when you’re ready to act, Do Mode helps you summarize, compare, or communicate instantly — all through natural, human conversation.
I built Ancher to answer my father's question —
and hopefully, to make all of us a little less overwhelmed,
This looks sweet! How do I select more than just read like the greats as an example?
I hardly had to spend time thinking about prompts, which I appreciate, but it would be even better if the outputs were faster.
Here’s an idea for your startup: for each news article, you could add a comment section and use AI to pull the most liked comments from media sources. You could also extract comments from well-known people, for example from Twitter, related to each piece of news. That would significantly increase the value.
Finally something that doesn’t just summarize headlines but helps you think better. The “Do Mode” part is genius — turning information into insight instead of endless scrolling. Curious how it handles bias and conflicting sources though.
The clarity and structure of the feed make it ideal for consultants and strategists.
Love the focus on meaningful content over mindless scrolling! TBH, could use more customization options, but already saving me hours daily. 🙌
Ancher helps me stay focused by filtering out noise, but I wish it had more customization options for different work styles. Great for deep work sessions!
Ancher's intent-based filtering has noticeably reduced my information overload, I've experienced fewer distractions while researching industry trends. The Do Mode's dual-perspective feature feels particularly useful for balanced analysis, though I'd love more customization in noise filtering thresholds.
The summaries are shockingly human-like, they even preserve and change tone, not just facts, this is really cool.
First impression’s pretty good, the summary and trending features are super handy. I’ll keep using it for sure.
Overall not bad, but the interest-based recommendations could be sharper and a bit more varied.
Great for casual reading, and the design looks awesome. Love it!
Love the Chief of Staff AI concept for information management! As a UI/UX designer who's worked with 200+ products over 11+ years, I'm curious: how did you design the information filtering UX to balance comprehensive coverage with focused priority? That tension between showing everything and helping users stay focused is always fascinating. Congrats on the launch!
Hey everyone👋,
I'm thrilled to launch Ancher.ai - a next-gen AI-powered news assistant that redefines how people interact with information. I’m also a news enthusiast — I’ve installed quite a few news apps myself. The problem is that there wasn’t too little information - it was too much. Too noisy. Too fragmented. Too easy to forget.
Ancher is our answer. Not just another feed - but a smarter system that:
Learns what matters to you through conversation
Surfaces signal from global media, research, and niche sources
Remembers key insights with Anchor Vault
Lets you act on content instantly with Do Mode
It’s built for professionals, founders, and lifelong learners who want to stay sharp without the overwhelm.
🎁 We're offering PH users “Free For One Year" (code on our launch page). Try Ancher and we’d love your feedback.
- William
Nice job! but I thought that "Add Topic" would fetch information related to the relevant topic for me, but it turns out to be a direct response from the llm.
Congratulations on your launch! I’m so impressed by the passion and hard work you’ve poured into Ancher. It’s clear that you care deeply about helping people find meaningful information, and your dedication really shines through. I feel inspired by your mission and excited to see how Ancher will continue to grow. Thank you for creating something truly special and for being so thoughtful in your approach. Keep up the amazing work!
where you got the source? from media sites? or social media? or others...
if you just turn the exising media source to me, what's the diffferent i read from the origin?
Congrats for the launch! The idea of simplifying feed streams is eye-catching (keeping scrolling down the feed rolls literally costs me a lot of time everyday lol), and the DO mode is interesting as well. Simplifying requires concise information retrieval and filteration. Hopefully Ancher does well in these aspects.
In the AI era, platforms are becoming increasingly intelligent, but more importantly, they're making it hard to stop scrolling. One message after another, leaving us feeling increasingly empty; the moment we turn off our phones, all that's left is the passage of time.
We may really need to re-examine what constitutes important information, and what information we should truly care about. I think this is crucial. Whether it's video platforms or news platforms today, there's just too much content to keep up with. What do you think?
👋 Hi everyone — Vincent here, founder of Ancher
For most of my career, I've built digital news products used by hundreds of millions of people in the U.S. — AOL, Huffpost, Yahoo News, and most recently NewsBreak.
We made it easier than ever to access information — breaking news in seconds, personalized feeds, infinite scrolls. It was powerful, fast, and addictive.
But after years of building in those systems, something started to bother me.
People weren't getting smarter — they were getting tired.
The systems kept optimizing for attention, not understanding.
We taught algorithms how to chase clicks or watch time, but we never taught them how to serve meaning.
One day, my father — a lifelong engineer who values time and clarity above all — asked me a question that made me completely pause.
He was ill then, and we were finally spending quiet days together after years apart.
He looked at me and said:
That question hit harder than any investor pitch or user feedback I've ever heard.
Because it was true — we’re surrounded by content that keeps us busy, but not better informed.
We scroll endlessly, but retain almost nothing.
That moment became the starting point of Ancher — a project to rebuild our relationship with information from the ground up.
Ancher isn't just another feed.
🧭 What Ancher does
Ancher is an intelligent information assistant that learns your intent — even when you can't clearly define it.
In fact, most people aren't able to articulate exactly what they want to follow, and they shouldn't have to.
Just say a few words, or a simple sentence about what's on your mind — and Ancher understands who you are, what matters now, and where your attention should go.
At its core is the concept of an Anchor — a living, intelligent node that represents something you care about: a topic, a person, an event, or a question. Each Anchor learns, updates, and acts for you — keeping your understanding connected and alive over time.
Ancher reads for you — distilling the world's noise into what truly matters for your goals.
It keeps watch — tracking key events or trends from your angle, and only alerting you when something truly changes.
It helps you remember — turning everything you read into structured, recallable knowledge.
And when you’re ready to act, Do Mode helps you summarize, compare, or communicate instantly — all through natural, human conversation.
I built Ancher to answer my father's question —
and hopefully, to make all of us a little less overwhelmed,
and a little more anchored in what matters.
Would love to hear what you think.
👉 ancher.ai