Skip to content
How it works

Your daily dose to stay sharp on Tech, Startup, and AI

Take Your Pills delivers one 5–10 minute audio every morning. One fresh topic. Simple language. Real context. So you already know the story behind what everyone will be talking about next.

Listen on your walk, in the shower, during your commute, or on a coffee break.

Start free trial

Try it for a week and see if it fits your routine.

The Process

Behind Every Pill

Each morning's pill goes through 8 stages before it reaches you. Here's what actually happens.

1

Collect

56+ sources scanned daily

Our Cloudflare Worker scans 56+ curated sources across 6 platforms in 3 daily batches, deduplicating by URL hash and merging engagement signals.

Tier 1 — Top Engineering

Cloudflare Netflix Uber Stripe OpenAI Meta Google AI Anthropic +6 more

Tier 2 — Well-Known

Datadog Supabase Figma Spotify Linear Sentry +21 more

Tier 3 — Niche & Individual

Julia Evans Simon Willison Dan Luu ByteByteGo +11 more
Hacker News
GitHub Trending
Dev.to
RSS Feeds
2

Deduplicate

Same URL, merged signals

When the same article appears on multiple platforms, we merge the signals instead of counting it twice.

HN
GH
RSS
1
SHA-256 URL hashing for dedup
Signal merge Highest score wins
3

Tag

19 categories classified by AI

A lightweight AI model classifies each article into 1–3 categories from our taxonomy.

Cloud Computing Cybersecurity DevOps AI Infrastructure Software Architecture Web Development Data Engineering Autonomous Agents Platform Engineering +10 more

Powered by Gemini Flash for speed and cost efficiency

4

Score

7-dimension deterministic ranking

No AI here — a deterministic algorithm scores every article on 7 dimensions. Fully reproducible, no hallucination.

HN Score 0–20 pts
HN Comments 0–15 pts
GitHub Stars 0–10 pts
Cross-Source Signals 0–15 pts
Freshness 0–15 pts
Source Tier 0–10 pts
Relevance -10 to +15 pts

Log₂ scaled signals — no single dimension can dominate

5

Filter

Variety enforced, no repeats

Even the highest-scoring article gets blocked if it breaks our variety rules.

Tag rotation Same primary tag can't repeat two days in a row
Source rotation Same source can't appear within 3 days
Tag deficit bonus Under-represented categories get up to +10 pts over 14-day window
6

Enrich

AI writes the story

A more capable AI model transforms the raw article into publish-ready content, then a human editor reviews everything in Notion.

Before

"RFC 9110 HTTP Semantics Published"

After

"The HTTP spec just got its biggest rewrite in 25 years"

CTR-optimized headline
Summary + "Why now" context
Difficulty level & time horizon
Email hook for the newsletter teaser

Gemini Pro + human editor review in Notion

7

Record

Audio produced

AI generates a 5–7 minute audio script, then produces the narration with intro/outro music and crossfade mixing.

Script AI-generated
Voice TTS narration
Mix 3s crossfade
8

Publish

Your pill is ready

The final stage formats everything, generates visual assets, and schedules your pill for 5 AM.

Clinical Summary

Diagnosis The problem this topic addresses
Prescription Actionable steps to take
Side Effects Trade-offs to consider
Potency Key verdict or metric
AI-generated cover art (pharmaceutical box style)
Audio player embedded with references
Scheduled to your inbox at 5 AM

56+

Sources scanned

7

Scoring dimensions

8

Pipeline stages

1

Pill delivered daily

56 sources. 8 stages. Your inbox.

Subscribe now

Built for consistency

This is not about binge learning. It's about building a daily habit.
A small dose, every day, that compounds.

Try it and see if it clicks

If a free trial is available, you'll see it during checkout. You can cancel anytime from your member account, and you'll keep access until the end of your billing period.

Get started now!
Secure payments by Stripe No full card details stored on servers

Have questions?

Most questions are answered in our FAQ. If you still need help, contact us at contact@takeyourpills.tech.

/