Roundup

Recently, I've been trying to write and publish a lot more. Unintentionally, it's sort of my 2025 New Year's Resolution now.

As I've been contemplating changing my newsletter format from long-form blog post in your inbox to a round-up style email, it made me wonder:

Has anyone built an automatic round up email generator yet?

Because it would be so "simple" since round-up emails are purposefully more formulaic.

For instance, James Clear's 3-2-1 newsletter "includes 3 short ideas from me, 2 quotes from others, and 1 question for you to ponder." But those ideas tend to be tweets he has sent out already.

So, imagine you could go and set the format you want and you could add "feeds"; both personal feeds and other people's (via RSS probably). Every week, Roundup would go and source all the relevant articles, pieces of writing, social media tweets ("just use ai" handwaving here) as options.

Then you select the ones you want and then voila, newsletter done for the week.

My gut says the target persona here would be for someone with some following on the internet already who wants to start a newsletter as another form of engagement (kinda like a podcast). More importantly, I would look at B2B personalities who would be able to send it out to a more enterprise forward audience.

Here's some different ideas for "formats" btw:

• Top [blank industry] articles summarized
• Startup ideas
• Book quotes
• Questions to ponder
• History fact
• Available domain names
• Funding news
• Cool websites
• Beautiful design work
• Productivity tip (further niche down like for ADHD)

Distribution

I would do what every newsletter product does. Slap your logo on the bottom unless they pay up.

But for initial traction, I would do this as a productized service for the aforementioned persona. You could further sell them on the fact that newsletters in the B2B space are charging significant fees to advertise/sponsor with them. Nothing like an extra bit of revenue they don't even have to think about.

Honestly, if you want me to build you a round up newsletter, hit my line.