Control your own feed - Sorin Mircea

From passively watching content on TV…

To letting a feed surface content just for you. Think YouTube, Instagram, even LinkedIn…

It’s time to take matters into your own hands: find and curate your content, and decide for yourself what you consume.

This can now easily be done with an LLM and a few connectors that teach it how to fetch the data. That’s it.

Content should not be optimized for the platforms’ interests, but for your own.

Here’s a small proof of concept: an e-ink screen connected to a microcontroller, with a battery lasting months and months. Designed and 3D-printed by myself, no subscriptions, and full control over what it shows, straight from my phone.

An e-ink display in a white and orange 3D-printed stand showing a Hacker News story summary, local weather, a stock price and this week's running distance; below it a side view of the stand