Simple Content Discovery Platform
Hi all Indie Hackers 👋
TL;DR
Do you think there is a market for a personalized newsletter/content discovery platform where you would connect sources like Youtube channels, RSS feeds, podcast feeds, social platform profiles and mentions, that would be summarised hourly, daily or weekly and sent to you by email and available in an app reader dashboard?
Recently I released a website to watch skate videos called ripn.tv. It's basically a curated aggregator and video player for skate videos that are already on YouTube.
The main feature is something I call Weeklies.
A Weekly is a curated playlist from all skate videos that has been released on Youtube in the prior week.
In the beginning, I manually started following all channels I could find on youtube that releases videos. Then I would go check youtube all the time for notifications on each channel and keep a list of video URLs in notes for the whole week.
This led to a lot of stress of always being behind and afraid I'd miss something.
So I started automating everything, and in the process, I developed a tool that will go scan youtube for all videos on specified channels and generate me a summary with video metadata and embedded players for each, and with some frontend magic, I can filter and order on different parameters.
This has freed me so much time, and Monday is now my favorite day. With a click, I now get a week of skate videos from over 80 channels on youtube.
This tool is so great to me, and I couldn't run ripn.tv without it.
As I'm currently extending this to more things like fetching posts on social platforms, mentions, hashtags, RSS feeds and podcasts I've begun to wonder if this should be a SaaS product for others to use as well?
I've looked at "similar" SaaS tools out there, and they take a very different approach to content discovery, they are more like search engines, and they split up summaries per search term.
So my question is,
Would a SaaS tool where you can create summaries sent by email and available in an app reader dashboard hourly, daily and weekly from specified sources like:
- All videos from x,y,z youtube, channel since the last summary.
- All tweets from brand x,y,z, since the last summary.
- All new articles from website x,y,z, since the last summary.
- All new podcast episodes from x,y,z, since the last summary.
- And so on...
You could call it a personalized newsletter/aggregator.
I'm thinking that it primarily would be interesting for content writers and marketers, and people who do curation for newsletters and websites. And secondary for people who would just like to turn off their notifications and get a summary sent to their mail at a time that fit's their schedule.
Let me know what you think :)
Do you know of any similar products?
Would you like me to build it?
Do you think it would have any value to you or others?
Please get in contact with me if you have more questions, ideas or inputs :)
All the best,
