Uncover actionable, high-value content
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Lighthouse is a reimagined RSS feed reader, optimized for people who are serious, intentional, and proactive about their content consumption. It helps you identify the valuable articles and ignore the others.
Quality vs value
Quality is objective, but value is unique to you
Valuable information is actionable, it must improve something in your life.
Otherwise it might be interesting, but of no value beyond entertainment.
What makes content valuable?
Provides new information
If all a piece of content does it reiterate information you're already familiar with, you're not learning anything. Which means nothing changes.
Connects to existing knowledge
If the information is far beyond (your) current knowledge, it's hard to properly understand and make sense of it. Causing frustration and procrastination.
Impacts your life in meaningful ways
If the contents of the article doesn't impact you in any way, then there's no basis to make a change based on its information.
Explains clearly and understandably
Even if content hits the sweet spot of providing new information, connecting to your existing knowledge, and affecting your life, if it's written in a confusing way it still doesn't help.
This is about content quality, and can be measured objectively.
Signal vs noise
Why is finding high-value content so difficult?
Because of this fact, there are no universal rules for finding value. And unfortunately it's also not possible to defer to other people or systems, because they can never know you perfectly.
Content creators write for an audience which is more than just one person, which means that a typical publication will have some valuable content, and some that's irrelevant.
Since there are almost no feeds where every post is valuable, it's necessary to look for and select the valuable ones, and dismiss the rest. This is effort not everyone is willing to make/invest.
Solution
A reimagined RSS feed reader
Builds on proven standard technologies (RSS, Atom, email) and is optimized for finding valuable content
Content curation
Explore featuresContent curation is about identifying and selecting the high-value articles and dismissing the rest.
You are the ultimate judge if content is valuable to you, and Lighthouse embraces that philosophy.
- Inbox step streamlines yes/no decisions
- UI optimized for quick decisions
- Automation features reduce the number of items
- Find valuable articles from a large list of sources
Iteration and optimization
Explore featuresIteration and optimization is about continuously improving the value of subscribed sources.
Knowledge, tastes, and the content a source publishes change over time. Your subscribed sources should keep up.
- Add new sources and remove low-value ones
- Data-driven insights to show which sources are valuable
- Optimize individual sources with rules
Content discovery (future)
Content discovery is about finding new sources that might provide value.
Subscribing to sources should not be a big commitment, because it's impossible to predict perfectly if a source will publish high-value content in the future.
Currently users discover new sources through digest newsletters, link communities (like Reddit and Hacker News), or through articles that link to other blogs.
Inbox and Library
A different approach
What's important is the value an article has for you, not the source it came from
Lighthouse flips the script. Instead of organizing by source, it organizes content by state: Inbox - new, Library - bookmarked, Archive - archived.
This approach separates content curation (Inbox) from content consumption (Library), and makes it possible to optimize the UI for each.
- Contains new items
- For content curation
- Bookmark or dismiss items
- Quick yes/no decisions
- Contains bookmarked items
- For content consumption
- Archive items
- Organizing content
The additional Inbox step adds decision-making effort, but the result is worth it.
You'll get a perfectly curated, clean, high-signal, list of articles in the Library.
Setup
How to get started
The onboarding guides you, you're set up within minutes
Create an account
After signing up you're automatically on the free plan.
Subscribe to sources
Import feeds from OPML files or subscribe to new feeds and newsletters
Curate first articles
Focus on the best posts by selecting the ones you're interested in