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Lighthouse is an RSS feed reader designed to end information overload. To help you discover new content, curate published content, and unsubscribe from low-quality sources.
Causes of information overload
Fragmentation
The distributed nature of content on the internet makes it difficult to manage.
Uncertainty
If a source provides enough value to subscribe is almost impossible to know before subscribing to it.
Noise
Even if a blog is generally interesting, not every article will be valuable enough to read.
Follow all sources in one place
The key to battling information overload is to first get everything in one place. You can subscribe to blogs, news sites, newsletters, and more. When a new post is published, it's added to your Lighthouse Inbox. You can also add URLs manually to read later.
Subscribe with confidence
Lighthouse shows you how much of each source you read. You can quickly figure out if it's valuable for you, and unsubscribe if it's not. All so you can subscribe to sources without worrying if they're worth it. To make it easy to try them out and decide later. If in doubt, subscribe.
Filter signal from noise
Lighthouse separates content curation (Inbox) from consumption (Library). New posts come to the inbox, where you select the ones that interest you. The rest you can remove with one click. Because of this separation, new sources don't clutter your interface.
Curation
Simplified content curation
Going through large amounts of content takes time. Lighthouse helps you automate and shows you more information upfront so you can decide quicker.
Summaries
Content is automatically summarized to help you get the gist of it as quickly as possible.
Rules
With rules you can automate actions and automatically filter content based on the criteria you set.
About sentence
This is a one-sentence explanation what the content is about. It's often much better than the headline to figure out if the post is worth a read.
Ask AI
You can use Lighthouse to ask questions which are answered based on the content of the post. If it doesn't contain the answer, Lighthouse says so.
Why it works
Discovery ⋄ Curation ⋄ Optimization
The value a piece of content has is different for everyone. You're different from the person next to you. It's influenced by many factors, including the topic, prior knowledge, writing style, length, and much more.
Because of that, recommendations can never be perfect, and are not enough to find the most valuable sources. Trial and error, subscribing to see if it's useful and unsubscribing if it's not, is the only way.
To make this possible, a product cannot stop at helping you find potentially valuable sources, it must also tell you if they didn't provide value after all.
Otherwise one of two scenarios happens. Either you accumulate too much content and get overwhelmed, or you don't try new sources for fear of getting overwhelmed. In both cases you miss the most valuable information.
Lighthouse is designed for this process. To help you find and subscribe to new sources, and unsubscribe from low-value sources just as easily.
How it works
3 core actions
Subscribe to sources
Import feeds from OPML files or subscribe to new feeds and newsletters
Curate content
Focus on the best posts by selecting the ones you’re interested in
Read valuable information
Choose the posts you want to read, on your own schedule