Trace helps you keep up by pulling content from multiple sources — like YouTube, Reddit, Hacker News, Medium, and X — into one place. It learns from your work and feedback, remembers what matters, and surfaces signals from across the web without pulling you in.
I built Trace because I wanted a feed that helped me keep up without stealing my attention.
Here’s how it works right now:
- You enter your interests
- You get access to a generic feed based on your interests.
- If you want to see your personal Trace in action, you can try it for 3 days at no charge
- After that, it’s $2.99/month, which includes priority support and helps me keep building this sustainably
The idea is simple: pull signal from across the web, learn from your feedback, and stay out of your way.
This is still early, so things will change and improve quickly. If you try it and something feels off, I’d genuinely love to hear about it.
I like the idea of tracking the content I consume. Can I also set up the sources I want to get content from, the types of content within them, specific topics, and formats? It would be great if the service could generate news just for me in audio/video format of my choice, and also let me choose where to send it (Messenger, email, etc.). A sort of personalized news aggregator.
In addition to the mainstream platforms mentioned, will more specialized or niche information sources be supported in the future—such as industry-specific forums, paid subscription feeds, and academic databases?
Congrats on the launch! Love how Trace unifies noisy feeds and surfaces only high-signal content that actually aligns with my work.
For adjusting the feed based on user's signals, how strongly does it do this? I have a huge issue through Reddit and Instagram where I see something they may not be my main focus but that one particular piece of media was interesting and then suddenly I'm getting nailed with 90% of that content and I have to go out of my way to readjust my algorithm.
Bought it on launch day — very promising so far. $2.99 is insanely cheap for a personal signal engine like this. Hope it keeps getting smarter over time and maybe even outperforms my $200 ChatGPT Pulse subscription 😄 Rooting for this to become my daily info cockpit.
Congrats on the launch! I like the intention-first approach here, a feed that informs without pulling you into endless scrolling is refreshing. How does Trace decide what not to show once it learns from my feedback?
Project tracking tools can get overwhelming fast, but this looks clean and focused. Does it integrate with other project management tools, or is it designed to be your single source of truth?
Love the "signals not distractions" framing. How does the feedback loop work? Like, do I thumbs up/down content, or does it learn from what I actually click/read?
When someone already uses an RSS reader, newsletters, bookmarks, and a bit of X/Reddit/HN, what’s the clearest reason they’d switch to Trace instead of tightening their existing setup—and what kind of user do you think won’t switch even if they like the idea?
Congrats on the launch! Would love to see deeper and integrated info instead of original content :)
Nice tool to get awar from most of noises ! how frequent will trace refresh the content feed?
Hey Tarun, that line about keeping up without stealing your attention is the whole problem with feeds right now. Was there a day where you opened an app just to check one thing and 45 minutes later you’re like wait what just happened?
