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News for product builders

We got news about your users.

The product, AI and startup news that matters to your role, in three minutes. Every story cites its sources.

Join the public beta

Free on iPhone, through Apple’s TestFlight.

The User Economics app on iPhone: a story card at the top of the For You deck.

How it works

3 minutes.
Zero fluff.

Every few hours our newsroom finds what actually happened in AI, software and startups, checks it against the sources and writes it up for builders. You get the few stories that matter to your work, not everything that was published.

  1. 1The launch postOfficial blog
  2. 2The funding filingsec.gov
  3. 3Pricing, before and afterArchived page

Every story cites its sources

Each story lists the articles, filings and posts it was written from, with the quotes it relied on. Open any of them and check for yourself.

3 min
A whole morning’s news
0
Fluff, padding or filler

Three minutes, not thirty

A TL;DR, the key points and the figures that matter. The long version is a tap away when a story earns it.

ProductFounderEngineeringDesignSwipe right to save, left to skip.

Tuned to your role

The same news, ranked for the work on your plate. The deck learns what you finish and what you pass on.

Inside the app

Five ways in.

A morning briefing, products taken apart, a podcast, the model race and the best of what builders are reading.

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Daily Standup

Design tools grew an agent mode. Handoff just changed.

Daily Standup

Up to speed before standup. Launches, pricing changes and model releases from overnight, each written up for the way you work.

The onboarding that shows value before signup

  1. Step 1Try it on sample data
  2. Step 2See the first result
  3. Step 3Then sign up

Edge Case

Real flows from real products, taken apart. Steal the good parts.

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Podcast

The bet we called three episodes ago

Oncall

The week’s stories as a podcast, with the transcript following along as it plays.

Outdated

Where the models stand: ranked by score, the best value for money, and what was just released.

  • Lenny’s PodcastTalk
  • StratecheryEssay
  • Simon Willison’s blogPost

Spotted

Talks, essays and videos from builders worth your time. Like what you want more of, swipe away what you don’t.

FAQ

Short answers.

Anything else, write to support@usereconomics.com.

Is it free?

Yes. Reading is free and needs no account. Some cards are sponsored or ads, and they’re labelled.

Who writes the stories?

Our newsroom writes them with AI, from public sources, and checks them against those sources. Every story lists what it was written from, so you can check too.

Do I need an account?

No. Sign up only if you want your saved stories, highlights and notes on more than one device.

Which phones does it run on?

iPhone, for now. The public beta runs through TestFlight, Apple’s app for trying apps before they reach the App Store.

What if a story gets something wrong?

Open the story’s menu and tap Report. We’ll take a look and fix it if something’s off.

Your users moved overnight.

Catch up in three minutes, with the sources to prove it.

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