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Designator
Your 5-minute morning briefing for design and product
Most aggregators hand you a firehose. Designator curates. It reads 75+ sources (blogs, YouTube, podcasts, newsletters) twice a day and AI-summarises each into 2-3 lines, so you decide in seconds what to read. What's different: • Opinionated weighting. Design outranks general tech, so gadget deals never bury a landmark UX study. • Freshness gating. Nothing month-old. • Named editions, archived, searchable, with email digest and RSS. • Pixel-retro design, not another sterile feed.
Hey Product Hunt 👋
Every designer I know has the same problem. Fifteen tabs, six newsletters, a podcast queue, and you still find out about a major Figma update from a colleague three days late.
That frustration sat with me for months. With everyone talking about building with AI, I wanted to actually test it: how far could one designer get on nights and weekends, no engineering team?
What started as a weekend hack turned into the most honest product education I've had. I learned that curation IS the product, when my feed kept drifting into Prime Day deals instead of design thinking. That mobile is unforgiving, when bugs appeared only on real iPhones and never in the simulator. That deliverability is a discipline, when my first newsletter landed straight in spam. That you can't fight Gmail's dark mode, you design for its inversion.
Designator today: 75+ sources, twice-daily pulls, AI summaries, named editions (today's is The Hi-res Pulse), full search across 1000+ stories, email digest, and a pixel-retro skin because a design briefing should look designed. Built with Next.js, Supabase, Gemini, and Claude Code.
Two things I'd love from you: which sources am I missing? And if you've built a curation product, how did you handle the "fresh content vs. good content" tradeoff? That one still keeps me up.
Happy to answer anything about the build.
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About Designator on Product Hunt
“Your 5-minute morning briefing for design and product”
Designator was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 0 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #16 on the daily leaderboard. Most aggregators hand you a firehose. Designator curates. It reads 75+ sources (blogs, YouTube, podcasts, newsletters) twice a day and AI-summarises each into 2-3 lines, so you decide in seconds what to read. What's different: • Opinionated weighting. Design outranks general tech, so gadget deals never bury a landmark UX study. • Freshness gating. Nothing month-old. • Named editions, archived, searchable, with email digest and RSS. • Pixel-retro design, not another sterile feed.
Designator was featured in Design Tools (261.8k followers), Newsletters (12.1k followers) and Artificial Intelligence (475.9k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 158.7k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Designator?
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