ComingUp ComingUp
Jul 15, 2026 Entertainment & Media
content discovery media news personalization topic-tracking

Gallery

Sift

About

I am a solo developer, and I’ve been building a news app called Sift. The idea came from a frustration I had with most personalized news products: they ask whether you like broad categories like technology, business, politics, or sports. But those are just too big. I might care about OpenAI, but not every single AI story. I might want updates about India, a particular policy, a company, a person, or one ongoing geopolitical event. Sift lets you follow those specific things instead. Your feed is...

Comments (5)

Theron Schaden Theron Schaden 1 week ago

how are you handling personalization beyond categories?

Katlynn Wyman Katlynn Wyman 1 week ago

broad categories are useless for finding stuff. how does it learn what you actually read?

Madeline Kessler Madeline Kessler 1 week ago

broad categories always miss the interesting stuff

Lela Gutkowski Lela Gutkowski 4 days ago

spacing looks cramped on mobile. how do you avoid echo chambers?

Marquis Cronin Marquis Cronin 3 days ago

embedding model under the hood?