Write the thing you've been meaning to write.
Sidepress is a newsletter curation tool. Point it at a subject and it reads everything published about it, every night. It learns how you write, so the draft waiting in the morning already sounds like you. All that's left is your editing.
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KEEP
The idea's been there for years. The spare evenings haven't.
You set it up once. After that, your job is deciding. Think of Sidepress as the desk you sit at for twenty minutes before you hit send. Publishing still happens wherever it happens now.
Point it at what you trust
RSS, Reddit, Hacker News, Substack, GitHub, X, plus a scraper for anything else you read. You do this once.
It reads overnight
Every night it reads what came out that day and puts together a draft. It's there when you get up.
Keep what you like, cut the rest
Go down the list and mark each one keep or cut. Tidy the copy where it needs it, then send.
It scrapes, overnight.
It scrapes your sources overnight and drafts in your voice. This is the part you never see.
- RSS 14 new
- Reddit 6 new
- Hacker News reading
- Substack 9 new
- GitHub reading
Three things for Tuesday
Draft ready when you wake up
Everything it read last night, on one screen.
This is where your twenty minutes go. Each item gets a keep or a cut, and the ones you keep become the issue.
Sidepress doesn't send your newsletter.
That's on purpose. You already have somewhere to send from and it works fine. Sidepress covers the part before that: the sources, the overnight reading, the draft, and the cutting. When you're done it hands over the finished HTML, or pushes it straight into Beehiiv.
One paid tier, and a free one you can stay on.
Hobby
- Up to 10 sources
- Nightly collection and draft
- Copy to any platform
- One newsletter
Weeknight
- Unlimited sources and custom scrapers
- Voice training on your past issues
- Push drafts straight into Beehiiv
- Multiple newsletters, one desk
Questions, answered.
Do I need to already have a newsletter?
No. Most people using this don't have one yet. Getting issue one out of you is what it's for.
Does it write in my voice?
Yes. Sidepress builds a voice profile from how you write and what you keep, and drafts in it. You still edit, but you're editing something that already sounds like you.
What can it read?
RSS, Reddit, Hacker News, Substack, GitHub and X out of the box. If there's something else you want in, we'll write a scraper for it.
What if I miss a night?
Nothing breaks. The library keeps the last 30 days, so you can pull something back in whenever you get to it.
Built by traction studio.
Sidepress is the first of a series of product bets from traction studio, an AI product studio in Australia. Our day job is taking client products from strategy to shipped. We are using the same process on ideas of our own, and Sidepress is the first one out the door. Follow our journey on LinkedIn.
Issue one could be tomorrow morning.
Point it at ten things you already read. When you get up there'll be a first draft, in your voice, with your name on it.
Start issue one