Feed TLDR

Feed TLDR started as an excuse to actually ship something end-to-end. This was pre-agentic coding, so that meant wiring up the database, auth, Stripe — the whole stack myself.

The idea came from a problem I have. I read X for maybe a couple of insights a day from the dozen people whose thinking I respect, and I honestly hate everything else about being there. So I built something that scrapes them, summarizes the posts with AI, and emails me a daily digest. If nothing looks good, I just skip the trip.

The catch: I only knew Python. So I bet on Reflex — a Python-only full-stack framework — and built it pixel-perfect to my Figma. Learned a ton. Then spent a week trying to deploy it on Vercel, Render, and Replit before giving up. (I refused to hand-roll AWS.)

With days left on my self-imposed deadline, I rebuilt the frontend in Streamlit and injected JS and HTML to get it close to my original design. Not perfect, but it works.

It's live, and a few friends use it daily. The scraper's expensive so the paywall ended up higher than I'd like — next I want to vibe-code a proper frontend, push the cost down, and open-source it so people can bring their own keys.

You can try it out at feedtldr.com.