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I built an hourly newspaper for e-ink (and turned the pipeline into an MCP server)

Every hour, a Lambda pulls about 120 items from ~100 RSS feeds, asks a small model to act as an editor, and typesets the result as a 480x800 one-bit page for the Xteink X4 e-ink reader on my desk.

  • Hourly newspaper generated from 100 RSS feeds, processed by Lambda
  • Multi-page PDFs and TRMNL plugin created, MCP server exposed for agents
  • Free access for first ten users via rmapi push and Send-to-Kindle

I built a chat where every word costs money — on TON, solo, no legal entity

Hi! I'm a mobile developer (Kotlin by day), and a couple of weeks ago I started a side project with a simple, slightly audacious idea: a chat where sending a message costs money — and the recipient…

  • Users pay to send messages, recipients earn money
  • Platform operates as non-custodial, no legal entity required
  • Server matches transactions to messages via unique identifier

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