Send a daily AI tech news digest to Slack

Each day, AI reads top Hacker News stories on your topic and posts a short summary to Slack.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each top article.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
AI Agents & Autonomous SystemsMessaging & NotificationsReporting & AnalyticsResearch & Market Intelligence
Connects
SlackHacker NewsOpenRouter

The problem it solves

Staying on top of industry and tech news usually means someone on your team scrolling news sites every morning, and that time adds up fast. Important stories still get missed when everyone is busy with actual work.

Who it fits

A marketing, product, or research team that wants to stay on top of tech news without browsing sites every day.

How it works

  1. Every morning, the system checks Hacker News for stories matching your topic
  2. It pulls the top articles for that day
  3. AI writes a short bullet-point summary of each one
  4. The summaries are posted straight to your Slack channel
What you get

Morning tech updates waiting in Slack

You get a short daily summary of the top tech stories on your chosen topic delivered straight to your Slack channel each morning.

What you get

A daily Slack message summarizing the top news stories on the topic you care about.

What you need

A Slack account and an OpenRouter API key.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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