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Read-Later Weekly Digest

Get one weekly email with summaries of everything you saved.

Beginner8h1–2 people16/20 fit
TL;DR

Build Read-Later Weekly Digest for people who save articles and never read them in ~8h with 1–2 people. Stack: LLM + Next.js + Cron + Email.

Why it wins: Turns guilt into a useful ritual.

Build flow

01 · Problem
Read-later lists grow forever and saved articles are never read.
02 · Solution
Save links via a bookmarklet, summarise and estimate reading time, and send a weekly digest ranked by your interests.
03 · Build
  1. 1Build save endpoint
  2. 2Fetch and summarise pages
  3. 3Rank by interests
  4. 4Send weekly email
04 · Demo
Save three links and show the generated digest email.

MVP checklist

  • One-click save
  • Summaries
  • Reading time
  • Weekly digest

Tech stack

TechRole
LLMLanguage model
Next.jsFrontend + API routes
CronScheduled jobs
EmailTooling

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