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dailydotdev/daily

★ 19,839Audience · developerComplexity · 4/5MaintainedLicenseSetup · hard

TLDR

A personalized news feed for developers that replaces your browser's new tab with curated articles, tutorials, and discussions from across the tech world.

Mindmap

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    What it does
      Personalized feed
      Content aggregation
      Community groups
      Developer profiles
    How to use it
      Browser extension
      Mobile web app
      New tab replacement
    Key features
      Offline support
      Auto-learning interests
      Shareable cards
      Follow developers
    Tech stack
      Monorepo system
      Docker deployment
      Web technologies
      API services

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Replace your browser's new tab with a personalized feed of developer articles and tutorials tailored to your interests.

USE CASE 2

Discover new programming frameworks, tools, and industry trends without manually visiting multiple tech blogs.

USE CASE 3

Build a shareable developer profile card showing your reading activity and stats to display on GitHub or social media.

USE CASE 4

Join community groups around specific technologies or topics to discuss and learn with other developers.

Tech stack

JavaScriptReactNode.jsDockerPostgreSQL

Getting it running

Difficulty · hard Time to first run · 1h+

Requires Docker, PostgreSQL database setup, and Node.js backend configuration before the React frontend can connect.

Use freely for any purpose, but any modifications or derivative works must also be open source under the same AGPL-3.0 license.

In plain English

daily.dev is a professional network and personalized news feed designed specifically for software developers. The core idea is to replace the typical new tab page in your browser with a curated, automatically updated feed of articles, tutorials, and discussions from across the developer internet, covering programming languages, frameworks, tools, and industry trends. Rather than manually visiting dozens of tech blogs or newsletters, daily.dev aggregates content from many sources and learns your interests to surface the most relevant material. You can discover articles, interact with posts, join community groups around specific topics or technologies, and follow other developers. It works offline and is designed to require zero curation effort from the user, the feed personalizes itself over time. daily.dev is available as a browser extension for Chrome and Microsoft Edge (so it appears whenever you open a new tab), as well as a Progressive Web App for mobile devices. The platform is also home to a developer card feature, which generates a shareable profile card showing your reading stats and activity that you can embed in a GitHub profile. The codebase is a multi-repo monorepo system covering a browser extension, a web app, API services, and supporting tooling. It is open source under the AGPL-3.0 license and can be run locally with Docker. Developers, PMs, and founders who want to stay current with the software development ecosystem would use it as a passive, always-on learning tool.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
How do I set up daily.dev as a browser extension in Chrome and customize my feed to show only articles about React and DevOps?
Prompt 2
Walk me through the daily.dev codebase structure and explain how the personalization algorithm learns my interests from my reading activity.
Prompt 3
How can I deploy daily.dev locally using Docker and contribute a new content source to the aggregation system?
Prompt 4
Show me how to generate and embed a daily.dev developer card on my GitHub profile to showcase my reading stats.
Prompt 5
What are the key API endpoints in daily.dev that power the feed personalization and community features?
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