Glimpsy - Community-First News Summaries

Staying current on tech, startups, business, and markets often feels like drowning in tabs. Headlines are too shallow, articles too long. Glimpsy is my attempt to find the middle ground: short, daily summaries delivered where people already are - on X.

Starting with people, not code

• Launched an X account first to validate the idea and see if others shared the same "too much info" pain.
• Focused the MVP on domains I follow closely: tech, startups, business, and markets.
• Used early engagement (and small paid tests) to shape what to build next.

How it works

• Manual curation feeds a shared Google Sheet with the day's key stories.
• An n8n workflow chains prompts, embeds the text into a vector database, retrieves the best matches, and writes a concise thread.
• The final summary posts automatically to X as a daily thread.

The stack is intentionally minimal - a lean RAG pipeline that took under three hours to stand up.

What I learned

• Community-first beats code-first: early interest proved the problem mattered before I wrote real features.
• Constraints helped: starting on X removed signup flows and let me focus on quality summaries.
• Information overload is universal; the right delivery format is as important as the content itself.