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Build a personalized news brief around the topics you care about. No more sorting through dozens of websites to keep up. First Pass filters hundreds of news articles into a concise briefing, tailored to your interests. It only surfaces stories that matter to you with a crisp summary and sentence on why it matters. Articles from leading publications summarized and analyzed- so you get to what matters quicker.
I found myself spending way too much time manually checking different sources just to keep up with the news I cared about. So I built a personal agent that scans leading publishers every day, filters for stories I’d find interesting, and gives me a quick summary + a first pass on why this story matters.
A bunch of my friends said they’d love something like this for them too, so I scaled it into First Pass (https://firstpass.news).
You can choose from a set of existing topics, or suggest your own, and the agents will find automatically find the best sources and ingest them. You can also configure when you'd want your newsletter and how frequently.
If you think this would be useful to you, check it out and let me know what you think!
What I like is the way it’s news without any distractions.. I get the gist from the topics that matter to me at the precise time everyday. And it lets me customize the news according to my interests is a big deal versus giving me what’s interesting in general from whoever’s point of view.
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Tried it for my morning routine and the "why it matters" line is genuinely useful, saves me from opening ten tabs just to figure out if I care.
Tried it this morning with a few topics and the summaries were actually useful, not just chopped headlines. Like that it tells me why a story matters without me having to click through.
the summary plus the "why it matters" line is genuinely a nice touch, saves a lot of clicking. one thing i'd love is a way to see sources side by side for the same story, so i can quickly compare how different outlets are framing the same event.
Love that each story comes with a quick "why it matters" line—that tiny touch makes the brief feel curated instead of just filtered. Smart build choice.
The "why it matters" line under each summary is such a thoughtful touch—it turns a skim into actual understanding instead of just headlines. Clean execution on something a lot of news apps skip.
About First Pass on Product Hunt
“News, Your Way”
First Pass was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 12 upvotes and 13 comments, placing #64 on the daily leaderboard. Build a personalized news brief around the topics you care about. No more sorting through dozens of websites to keep up. First Pass filters hundreds of news articles into a concise briefing, tailored to your interests. It only surfaces stories that matter to you with a crisp summary and sentence on why it matters. Articles from leading publications summarized and analyzed- so you get to what matters quicker.
First Pass was featured in Productivity (656.3k followers), News (36.9k followers) and Newsletters (12.1k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 155.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted First Pass?
First Pass was hunted by Saahil Chamdia. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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