Use case · Community building

Run your community from one page.

Discord, GitHub, Reddit and the platforms they run on change every week. TinyNews watches your community’s own signals and the news around it, and tells you what needs you before the thread blows up.

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Your community’s pulse

Joins, first-time contributors and slow replies, flagged when they break from the usual week.

Platform changes

Policy and product changes from the platforms your community lives on.

The ecosystem

Open-source funding, events and the projects next to yours.

A real issue

The Commons, Wednesday, October 7, 2026

Made from that morning’s real news for the reader beside it. Unedited.

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Page 1 of The Commons, a TinyNews issue: DigitalOcean ends open-source credits for new applications and renewals
How TinyNews reads the web

Classifiers read everything. A writer gets only what matters.

  1. 01

    Read once, for everyone

    News, newsletters, forums, Reddit and LinkedIn: thousands of items every morning, each read a single time.

  2. 02

    Sorted by Clef

    A fast classifier labels every item. Promotion and rehash fall away; ten outlets on one event become one story.

  3. 03

    Judged for one reader

    Each story is weighed against your company, competitors, plans and place. Most are cut.

  4. 04

    Written, then checked

    Only the facts that survive reach the writer. Every claim cites its source and is checked before it prints.

How this issue was made

From 8,657 items to one page.

  1. Who it’s for

    What counts as news for this reader

    From Dana’s setup answers.

    • · Discord changes to community features, moderation tools, discovery, APIs, pricing, or platform rules
    • · GitHub changes to Actions limits, pricing, policies, collaboration features, or open-source programs
    • · DigitalOcean changes to donated credits, startup or open-source programs, pricing, or eligibility
    • · Kiln community activity, contributor discussions, maintainer announcements, or issues that signal a need for moderation or support
    • · Open-source funding programs, sponsor changes, grant opportunities, or sustainability initiatives relevant to software projects
    • · DuckDB product, ecosystem, community, or funding moves that affect embedded analytical databases
    • · Developer-community platform or policy changes at Reddit and Bluesky, especially changes affecting discovery, APIs, moderation, or reach
    • · New York developer meetups, conference announcements, and speaker or program news relevant to open-source databases

    8signals
  2. Read

    Everything new since the last edition

    News sites, newsletters, Hacker News, Reddit and LinkedIn, read once for every reader.

    8,657read
  3. Sorted

    Junk out, duplicates merged

    Clef set aside 1,132 as junk and grouped the rest, so an event covered by five outlets counts once.

    6,764stories
  4. Found

    The stories that touch this reader

    80 by signal, 16 by name, 31 by place and 42 from the sources they chose.

    150stories
  5. Judged

    One story at a time, for one reader

    27 newsroom stories and 38 of their own items, one at a time. 2 strong matches.

    65judged
  6. Written and checked

    The edition

    1 story and 4 one-liners. Each checked against its source.

    5printed
370items considered
5printed
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