Hi Crowd!
I’ve been hinting at this for a week or two now and have decided to just stop beating around the bush and tell you all about it. It’s funny because one of the reasons I made it was because it’s 2026 and we’ve got really bad ass coding AIs and can spin up agents to just do things yet one of the reasons I haven’t told everyone about it is because I keep acting like it’s 2006 and I need to do a focus group and a beta rollout and a stealth launch and whatever other stupid things we used to do when we thought ideas were precious things we had to keep secret because execution was the hard part. lol.
So yeah, I made a thing and it works and you can use it if you want.
—> Quicky.email
Here’s the origin story lore: I subscribe to newsletters because I like them and find them useful, but I subscribe to a lot of them which sometimes (all the time) leads to them piling up in my inbox and then either by the time I get around to reading them they are full of old news or missed events, or I just never get around to reading them and I hate myself for deleting them unread. I looked around at some of the solutions out there including some of the new baked in offerings from google and whatever and nothing worked the way I wanted it too or required exposing too much of my private info, or whatever.
So I posed the question, could I make an app/service run by a “no human” team of AI agents who could read all the newsletters I get every day and send me a single email that wasn’t just a top level summary but looked for related themes across different newsletters, the most interesting and relevant stories and links, pulled out important quotes and made me feel like I’d actually read them not just gotten some cliff notes. I also still wanted to be able to go read the real newsletter if I needed to, and also wanted a little bit of management so I could quickly see all my subscriptions and dump something if it was no longer interesting. Turns out the answer is yes. So that’s what Quicky is.
It’s not perfect yet, I mean it didn’t even exist a month ago. But it’s pretty great and it’s a little better every day. It’s really, really good at daily round up and news and report type newsletters. For those incredible (but rare) more personal strong author voiced newsletters (like mine) it’s OK but could be better, we’re working on that still. But mostly, it solved the problem I had in the way I wanted it solved. Maybe you have a similar problem and it could help? A small handful of people have been trying it out for the last week or so and they seem to enjoy it.
So as a thing, that I made, I’m pretty happy. And it’s an exciting realization that this kind of thing is possible. Once upon a time I used to keep a public wiki of apps/services I wanted but couldn’t make myself and put them out there as free ideas for anyone to take and build if they wanted to. No one ever did, but the intent was there. This sort of made me realize I can just build them now. So can anyone else. And that’s pretty exciting.
I made it free for 30 days just so you can see if it works for you or not, no pressure. After that it’s $5 a month which is almost free, but if enough people find it useful and keep going with it then it pays for itself pretty quickly that would awesome since this experiment set me back a few hundred bucks already. Fingers crossed I’m not the only one on the planet that wants this.
And just so this isn’t 100% boring self promo, the UK’s Ofcom trying to fine 4chan £520,000 plus daily penalties for violating the UK’s online age verification law and their response is reminding me of when the Dreamworks (a US company) tried to go after Pirate Bay for violating US Copyright Law and I’m loving it.
That’s all from me for now, have a good weekend!
-s