# Paperboy — Your Own Filtered Firehose Canonical: https://newpaperboy.com/ Paperboy — Your Own Filtered Firehose Skip to content Founding beta Preview your filter and verify your email. Paid daily or weekly delivery starts only after hosted checkout confirms a trial. paperboy How it works Pricing Open source Build my rollup Toggle navigation How it works Pricing Open source Build my rollup Your own filtered firehose Build your firehose. Read only what matters. Add Hacker News, startup feeds, RSS, research, and other public sources. Paperboy ranks the stream against what you are building—and shows why each item made the cut. Build my rollup → See the filter work ↓ Any public RSS or Atom feed No Gmail access Confirm before delivery starts Live product model Many inputs → a few signals HN Hacker News RSS · live feed YC Startup feeds RSS / Atom RSS Your feeds Blogs · releases LAB Research arXiv · papers Your filter AI agents API changes pricing risk Ignore: funding gossip Made the cut 8.7 Hacker News · source linked A provider changed the pricing behind your fallback route Why it matters: It overlaps the margin decision in your filter. 1 of 4 signals Open source ↗ Example layout. Setup validates your feeds and generates the first live cut before email verification and checkout. 01 Choose the firehose. 02 Define what deserves attention. 03 Get the rollup automatically. The filter explains itself Every signal earns its place. Paperboy does not just summarize the stream. It ranks each item against your stated focus, links the source, and explains the match. 8 /10 Hacker News AI infrastructure Example A model provider changed the pricing behind your fallback route Why it matters Your filter names model margin and API changes. This item overlaps both, so it ranks above generic AI news. Why the rest disappeared Funding gossip and beginner tutorials match your ignore list, so they never enter the brief. Open the Hacker News RSS feed ↗ How it works Three inputs. One automatic rollup. 1 Build your firehose Start with Hacker News or paste the public RSS and Atom feeds you already follow. 2 Define relevance Describe what you are building, watching, deciding, and tired of seeing. 3 Let Paperboy set it up Paperboy validates the feeds, scans recent items, ranks the best matches, saves the filter, and emails a secure confirmation link. ✓ Get the cut on your schedule After you confirm the address and start the trial, your active filter refreshes the sources and sends the strongest matches daily or weekly. Automatic, without inbox access Paste feeds. Paperboy does the setup. Paperboy works from public RSS and Atom feeds. It validates each URL, reads a bounded set of recent items, removes duplicates, and ranks the result against your filter. No Gmail connection or manual concierge step is required. Build my rollup Public feed validation Automatic Recent item scan Bounded Relevance ranking Your focus Duplicate removal Automatic Inbox access None Private feeds, paywalled sources, and email-only newsletters are not fetched by the live preview. Founding beta Try your filtered firehose for seven days. Preview the filter free. After email verification, start a card-required seven-day trial to activate daily or weekly delivery. Then pay $5 per month until canceled. Seven-day trial Paperboy Filtered Firehose $ 5 / month Card required for the seven-day trial. Billing starts after the trial unless you cancel. Founding beta Checkout availability is checked live. A preview or verified email is not a paid subscription. Your chosen public RSS and Atom feeds A relevance filter built around your work One ranked edition on your chosen schedule Links to every original source Cancel recurring billing through Stripe Build my rollup Prefer to run the original local digest yourself? View the free MIT-licensed project on GitHub ↗ Straight answers What does automatic setup actually do? Do I need to connect Gmail? No. Paste public RSS or Atom feed URLs. Paperboy reads only those URLs. Does Paperboy auto-subscribe me to newsletters? No. Many newsletters require email confirmation or expose no public feed. Use a public newsletter archive/feed when available; email-only ingestion is not part of the live preview. Which sources work right now? Public RSS and Atom feeds, including Hacker News and many blogs, release feeds, and research feeds. Is the first brief automated? Yes. Paperboy validates the feeds, scans recent items, removes duplicates, and ranks them against your filter. Delivery starts only after email confirmation and hosted trial checkout. Do I need to wait for someone to set it up? No. Paperboy validates and saves the filter automatically, then asks you to confirm the email address. No operator needs to approve it. Use your actual feeds Turn your firehose into a short list of things worth reading. Build my rollup → ← Back to home Automatic filter setup Start your automatic rollup. Choose Hacker News or paste public RSS and Atom feeds. Tell Paperboy what matters once; it validates the filter and emails you a secure activation link. No human setup Paperboy validates and saves your public feeds automatically. Confirm your email, then start the hosted trial checkout to turn on delivery. It does not connect to an inbox. Email address Your rollup is delivered here. No inbox access is required. Quick-start sources optional HN Hacker News AI arXiv AI GH GitHub Blog Public RSS or Atom feed URLs Direct public feed URLs work now. Add up to six sources. What should make an item relevant? What should Paperboy ignore? optional Rollup frequency Daily Weekly Delivered at 8:00 AM in your time zone. Weekly delivery day Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Your time zone Detected from this browser. Edit it if the rollup should follow another time zone. I agree to receive the Paperboy brief and service emails. I can unsubscribe at any time. See the privacy notice . Build my rollup Confirm your email Verify your email to continue. This link verifies the address. Delivery starts only after Stripe confirms the trial is active. Confirm my email ✓ Check your email. Paperboy saved your filter and sent a confirmation link. Nothing will be delivered until you confirm the address and finish checkout. Status Awaiting confirmation Delivery Not started Payment Checkout required Edition open and source-link analytics are off. Allow edition analytics Turn off edition analytics Refresh subscription status Continue to secure checkout Manage billing Stop delivery only Start over with another email paperboy Save and exit Local setup preview 1 Sources 2 Interests 3 Delivery Nothing live Fixture repos, local state, sample email, and demo checkout only. Setup 1 of 3 Choose what belongs in your morning edition. Each source lane is explicit. This local preview stores choices in your browser and contacts no email, news, research, data, or GitHub provider. ✓ Forwarded newsletters Send only chosen messages to local-preview@in.paperboy.example . This demo address receives nothing. ✓ Public news, research, and data Shared fixture catalog for releases, papers, technical news, and tracked metrics. + Selected public GitHub repos Optional Repo Radar context using fictional fixtures below. GH Exact planned permission explanation Fine-grained GitHub App · selected public repositories Local fixture Metadata Read Repository identity and mapping Contents Read Bounded commit and dependency context Pull requests Read Opened, merged, and review activity Issues Read Opened, closed, and comment activity Write permissions None No Actions, administration, members, organization, workflow, issue, pull request, or contents write permission. The live implementation must render provider-verified scopes. Add fictional GitHub fixtures Choose 1–5 public repositories Fictional demo-labs repositories; none are queried. 0 of 5 selected Search fixture repositories Selected only Use these sources → Setup 2 of 3 What deserves your attention right now? Give Paperboy an editorial lens for the newsletters, public signals, data, and optional repos you selected. Interests and active work Example: Agent evaluation, model pricing, API changes, and developer tooling for small AI products. What decisions or risks are on your watchlist? Editorial interests Choose themes that should compete for space in the edition. Agent evaluation Tool use RAG and memory Local inference Developer tooling Schema-constrained output What should Paperboy skip? Optional ← Sources Save interests and continue → Setup 3 of 3 When should your rollup arrive? The values below update a local sample. No schedule is created and no email is sent. Delivery email Delivery time Time zone Eastern time Central time Mountain time Pacific time La Paz UTC Delivery days M T W T F S S ← Focus Continue to checkout preview → Local sample · not sent Your first brief will look like this. Open responsive email preview → ← Back to delivery Checkout handoff preview Hosted checkout keeps card details off Paperboy. This legacy design fixture demonstrates the handoff. The live subscription flow uses Stripe-hosted checkout after email verification. Demo boundary “Preview successful setup” changes local UI state only. It does not create a customer, subscription, invoice, or schedule. Preview successful setup Return to setup Plan summary Paperboy Rollup $ 5 / month The price is $5/month after a card-required seven-day trial. The live flow repeats these terms before checkout. Repositories 0 selected Delivery Not set Trial terms 7 days, then $5/month paperboy Email preview Exit preview Local account state preview Your Paperboy rollup setup Local only Nothing is connected or subscribed. This page renders fixture and localStorage state so account, privacy, and billing states can be reviewed safely. Subscription preview Paperboy Rollup Active preview Your subscription is active—in this preview only. Preview billing state Active Checkout incomplete Payment processing Past due Cancellation scheduled Canceled Billing unavailable Manage billing preview Repositories 0 of 5 selected Change Delivery Schedule preview Edit GitHub connection Fixture connection Not live Planned scope: selected public repositories, read-only metadata, contents, pull requests, and issues. No provider token exists in this preview. Preview disconnect effect Privacy and retention Local data inventory Browser storage Email, fixture selections, focus, schedule, and preview states. Network transmission None from product JavaScript. External links navigate only when clicked. Provider processing None. No model, GitHub, email, auth, or billing provider is called. Retention Until local demo data is cleared or browser storage is removed. Clear local demo data ← Back to setup Responsive email preview · not sent Account states Your capped morning edition from explicitly selected sources paperboy Paperboy Rollup Changes worth checking for your repos. Local sample · 3 items · 2 fixture repositories This is a local sample. No email was sent and no source was fetched. Change sources Change delivery Privacy and billing paperboy Build a public-source firehose. Read only what survives your filter. Seven-day card-required trial · then $5/month until canceled Privacy Terms Contact GitHub Allow product analytics Decline analytics Optional analytics stays off unless you allow it. No advertising tracker is loaded. Paperboy is sold and operated by MEET KAI LLC, Puerto Rico. Local state preview Confirm change Keep current state Confirm Paperboy needs JavaScript to validate and save your filter, confirm your email, and open secure checkout. No Gmail or GitHub connection is made.