Show HN: An agent to run your newsletter

1 TheIndieBuilder 0 5/6/2025, 7:17:16 PM usetopical.com ↗

I've made an AI agent for Topical - the newsletter automation platform. You can chat to it from the UI but also over email! And MCP coming soon.

Topical is all about "human in the loop" newsletter automation, which means you are strongly encouraged to review, reword and edit your newsletter by hand before you send it to your subscribers. Nobody wants to read 100% AI slop! But 80/20 is usually fine because of how our tolerance changes as we read down a newsletter to the bottom.

This new agent makes adding your human input to the newsletter much easier as you can chat to the agent and describe changes you want to make. Either explicitly say "Make the intro say this..." or do the classic "reword it to sound more informatl" that all the AI tools have now. Try it out for free on the link above and let me know in the comments what you think.

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