# Focus Reader Team

- **Event:** [Built with Opus 4.6: a Claude Code hackathon](https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-code-hackathon)
- **When:** Feb 10 at 12:00 PM – Feb 17 at 10:00 AM (EST)
- **Where:** Location TBA
- **Team:** [George Chiramattel](https://cerebralvalley.ai/u/georgeck)
- **GitHub:** https://github.com/georgeck/focus-reader
- **Demo video:** https://youtu.be/9ftbrCzGGU4
- **Gallery:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-code-hackathon/hackathon/gallery
- **Page:** https://cerebralvalley.ai/e/claude-code-hackathon/hackathon/gallery/114

Email newsletters are a valuable source of curated information, but subscribing to them clutters the inbox and mixes long-form reading content with actionable correspondence. There is no clean separation between "things to read" and "things to act on" in a typical email workflow.

Focus Reader is a self-hosted system that provides a dedicated ingestion pipeline for email newsletters using pseudo email addresses, converts them into clean readable formats (HTML and Markdown), and presents them in an RSS-reader-like interface with support for tagging, categorization, and search.

- Eliminate newsletter clutter from the user's primary inbox.
- Provide a dedicated, distraction-free reading experience for newsletters.
- Allow the user to generate unlimited pseudo email addresses for subscriptions.
- Support an existing tagging/categorization system for organizing content.
- Optionally expose ingested newsletters as RSS/Atom feeds for interoperability with other readers.

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