case study
ThumbAI: a daily AI news digest that saves me 1–2 hours a day
I built ThumbAI, a cloud agent that filters AI news down to what I actually care about and delivers a daily summary each morning — saving me 1–2 hours of scrolling a day.
Context
A personal project, owned end to end, still running for months — ThumbAI, a cloud-based agent that summarizes AI news and turns it into carousel content.
Problem
I was scrolling the internet every day for AI news, and a lot of what I found was either stale or unreliable by the time I saw it. Time-sensitive stories lost their value fast — I'd see news about NVIDIA two days late, after the stock had already moved. There was also a lot of fake news mixed in, and I wanted to be sure what I was reading was actually authentic.
Approach
I built ThumbAI to pull AI news every morning and summarize it for me, like a daily newspaper, instead of me manually scrolling for it.
It also generates carousel content from the summaries.
Trade-offs
I deliberately scoped it to a narrow niche — Claude/Anthropic and NVIDIA — instead of covering AI news broadly. General AI news is huge and noisy; narrowing it down meant I could trust the feed and keep the daily summary focused on what actually matters to me.
Outcome
It's been running for months. It saves me one to two hours a day I used to spend scrolling for news, and every morning I get a summary like a daily newspaper.