Open-Sourcing Booklet
16 hours ago
- The author built a smart newsletter for Moonlight's community, which had ten times more weekly active users than the website, highlighting the power of asynchronous communication.
- Booklet was created as a newsletter-first community software, coded in Ruby on Rails, using OpenAI's GPT-3 to summarize conversations into a daily digest.
- Booklet hosted various communities but faced challenges with spam and low adoption beyond the author's own communities, leading to its shutdown.
- The Booklet code is now open-sourced under MIT license, supporting Solo and Multiuser modes, with Docker and Render deployment options.
- The author hopes others will adopt Booklet's AI summarization techniques, emphasizing that newsletters often have more users than websites and should be prioritized.