Get a personal engineering-blog newsletter from Grok Bot every morning
An engineer built his own newsletter with Grok Bot that follows 23 engineering blogs ranked in tiers, from Uber, Netflix, Cloudflare, Meta and ClickHouse down to Google, Shopify, GitHub and Airbnb, and sends him a digest each morning.
Source
@sai_ramana_1999 on X · 2026-10-19
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What they did
An engineer built his own newsletter with Grok Bot that follows 23 engineering blogs ranked in tiers, from Uber, Netflix, Cloudflare, Meta and ClickHouse down to Google, Shopify, GitHub and Airbnb, and sends him a digest each morning.
Result (as claimed)
A daily digest of the posts he cares about without checking each blog.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/mo.
Set it up
Gather your sources
Collect the papers, notes, links or files you want to work from in one place.
Load them into the tool
Open Grok Bot and add your sources. Keep the original files so you can check claims later.
Ask focused questions
Ask for summaries, comparisons or connections with citations to the source passages.
Verify and save
Spot check claims against the sources, then save the output as notes you can reuse.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Get a personal engineering-blog newsletter from Grok Bot every morning What the original author did: An engineer built his own newsletter with Grok Bot that follows 23 engineering blogs ranked in tiers, from Uber, Netflix, Cloudflare, Meta and ClickHouse down to Google, Shopify, GitHub and Airbnb, and sends him a digest each morning. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A daily digest of the posts he cares about without checking each blog. Source: https://x.com/sai_ramana_1999/status/2112017029171642404 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Get a personal engineering-blog newsletter from Grok Bot every morning What the original author did: An engineer built his own newsletter with Grok Bot that follows 23 engineering blogs ranked in tiers, from Uber, Netflix, Cloudflare, Meta and ClickHouse down to Google, Shopify, GitHub and Airbnb, and sends him a digest each morning. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A daily digest of the posts he cares about without checking each blog. Source: https://x.com/sai_ramana_1999/status/2112017029171642404 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Get a personal engineering-blog newsletter from Grok Bot every morning What the original author did: An engineer built his own newsletter with Grok Bot that follows 23 engineering blogs ranked in tiers, from Uber, Netflix, Cloudflare, Meta and ClickHouse down to Google, Shopify, GitHub and Airbnb, and sends him a digest each morning. Reported result (as claimed by the author): A daily digest of the posts he cares about without checking each blog. Source: https://x.com/sai_ramana_1999/status/2112017029171642404 Tools they used: Grok Bot Category: Research & learning Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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