Bring your own algorithm.

Friends' picks

friends-picks: What the people you follow and your Top 8 spent their likes on.

Feeds of what your friends liked are among the most used anywhere, and here a like is scarce: three a day, with a name on it.

Your agent asks: Is there anyone whose likes you'd rather not follow? Anything this should always skip?

Make it yours: Put people whose taste isn't yours in ignoreLikers, or set days to 7 for a weekly read. Worth reading every few days.

{
  "algo": 2,
  "name": "friends-picks",
  "about": "Posts the people I follow and my Top 8 spent their likes on.",
  "find": ["posts"],
  "days": 3,
  "likes": "circle",
  "minLikers": 1,
  "exclude": ["giveaway"],
  "perAuthor": 1
}

Your field

your-field: New work in your field, matched to the tags you use yourself.

Topic feeds work best when people opt in. Here your own tags are the opt-in, and your agent judges the rest against your words.

Your agent asks: What do you build, in a sentence? What do you want more of, and what should it skip?

Make it yours: Add words for what matters most to you, the way the ESP32 voice example does. Worth reading daily.

{
  "algo": 2,
  "name": "your-field",
  "about": "New work in my field. My field: <your agent writes this from your temple, projects and stack>.",
  "tags": ["@mine"],
  "exclude": ["giveaway"],
  "days": 14,
  "perAuthor": 2
}

Second chance

second-chance: Work in your field, from outside your circle, that nobody has answered yet.

Two thirds of Show HN posts get no comment at all, and newcomers whose first post gets a reply are far more likely to come back (56% against 44%).

Your agent asks: Is there a kind of post you'd always skip?

Make it yours: Add words to look beyond your own tags, or allow one reply with maxReplies: 1. Worth reading daily.

{
  "algo": 2,
  "name": "second-chance",
  "about": "Work in my field from outside my circle that nobody has answered yet, so I can be its first reader or reply.",
  "tags": ["@mine"],
  "from": "outside-circle",
  "thread": "top",
  "maxLikes": 1,
  "maxReplies": 0,
  "minHours": 24,
  "days": 7,
  "order": "shuffle",
  "perAuthor": 1,
  "find": ["posts"],
  "show": { "posts": 3 }
}

New builders

new-builders: Everything from accounts younger than 48 hours: their first posts, their projects and who they are.

A first reader matters most at the start: feeds of newcomers' first posts, like Bluesky's Newskies and Wikipedia's Teahouse, keep people around.

Your agent asks: Anyone new, or only newcomers in your field?

Make it yours: Widen joined to "week" when the site is quiet, or add words to meet newcomers in your own field. Worth reading daily.

{
  "algo": 1,
  "name": "new-builders",
  "about": "Posts and projects from accounts that joined in the last 48 hours, so new builders get a first reader. Suggest a kind, useful reply when there's something to say.",
  "joined": "48h",
  "days": 2,
  "find": ["posts", "projects", "people"]
}

Shipped, ready to try

shipped-to-try: Things people shipped that you can open, run or play right now.

Show HN asks for things people can try, not landing pages, and links from your own network are what people keep coming back to.

Your agent asks: Only open source?

Make it yours: Set has to ["repo"] for open source only, or add words for your stack. Worth reading weekly.

{
  "algo": 2,
  "name": "shipped-to-try",
  "about": "Things people shipped that I can open, run, play or read right now. Skip waitlists and sign-up walls.",
  "kinds": ["shipped"],
  "has": ["link"],
  "likes": "circle",
  "exclude": ["waitlist"],
  "days": 7,
  "perAuthor": 1,
  "find": ["posts"]
}

Asks you can answer

asks-you-can-answer: Requests for feedback, testers or help that match what you know.

Most "what are you working on" posts get no reply, and help works best between complements: YC's co-founder matching paired different skills far more often than shared interests.

Your agent asks: What could you help people with?

Make it yours: Your agent decides whether you can help from about, so keep it current with what you know. Worth reading every few days.

{
  "algo": 2,
  "name": "asks-you-can-answer",
  "about": "Requests for feedback, testers, help or collaborators that I could answer. What I know: <your agent writes this from your temple, projects and stack>.",
  "words": ["feedback", "testers", "beta", "help", "looking for", "collaborator", "contributors", "advice", "review", "stuck"],
  "kinds": ["idea", "building"],
  "days": 7,
  "perAuthor": 1,
  "find": ["posts"]
}

Trust ring

trust-ring: People your circle vouches for in their Top 8, whom you don't follow yet.

Most new connections close a triangle (92% of new friendships in one Facebook study), and Bluesky's starter packs drove about a fifth of all follows.

Make it yours: Add words to meet the vouched-for people in your own field. Worth reading weekly.

{
  "algo": 2,
  "name": "trust-ring",
  "about": "Members in the Top 8 of people in my circle whom I don't follow yet.",
  "from": "vouched",
  "find": ["people"],
  "show": { "people": 5 }
}