Built a newsletter sharing AI tools for dads (feedback wanted)

1 aipapa 0 6/24/2025, 5:17:51 AM

I started a free weekly newsletter called AI PAPA that curates 3–4 AI tools or tips to help dads save time, get creative, or just survive parenting with tech. It’s a mix of useful tools (e.g. bedtime story generators, productivity hacks) and dad humor.

I’m trying to grow it without paid ads and would love feedback from the HN community:

What would make this kind of newsletter stand out?

Would you read/subscribe if you’re not a parent but into AI?

Growth tips or strategies you’ve seen work for niche newsletters?

Appreciate any ideas, feedback, or roasts

Excalidraw+ Is Now SoC 2 Certified (plus.excalidraw.com)

Vera C. Rubin Observatory first images (rubinobservatory.org)

Backyard Coffee and Jazz in Kyoto (thedeletedscenes.substack.com)

Can your terminal do emojis? How big? (dgl.cx)

Fairphone 6 is switching to a new design that's even more sustainable (androidcentral.com)

How I use my terminal (jyn.dev)

'Dragon prince' dinosaur discovery 'rewrites' T.rex family tree (bbc.com)

The FPGA turns 40 (adiuvoengineering.com)

Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? (quantamagazine.org)

A Deep Dive into Solid Queue for Ruby on Rails (blog.appsignal.com)

2025 Iberia Blackout Report [pdf] (media.licdn.com)

Resurrecting flip phone typing as a Linux driver (github.com)

Marble Blast (marbleblast.vaniverse.io)

Developing a Retro-Roguelike Game for Multiple Platforms in C (retrogamecoders.com)

First methane-powered sea spiders found crawling on the ocean floor (cnn.com)

Show HN: Comparator - I built a free, open-source app to compare job offers (comparator-one.vercel.app)

Making TRAMP faster (coredumped.dev)

I ported pigz from Unix to Windows (blog.kowalczyk.info)

Ocarina of Time Randomizer (ootrandomizer.com)

I Solved a 7-Day Calculation Problem in a Weekend (medium.com)

QuEra Quantum System Leverages Neutral Atoms to Compute (nextplatform.com)

Minimal Boolean Formulas (2011) (research.swtch.com)

Launch HN: Reducto Studio (YC W24) – Build accurate document pipelines, fast

Breakthrough cancer test predicts whether chemotherapy will work (telegraph.co.uk)

Rocknix is an immutable Linux distribution for handheld gaming devices (rocknix.org)

uv: An extremely fast Python package and project manager, written in Rust (github.com)

GitHub CEO: manual coding remains key despite AI boom (techinasia.com)

The Last of Us Part II – Seattle Locations Tour (docs.google.com)

Judge denies creating “mass surveillance program” harming all ChatGPT users (arstechnica.com)

Cataphract: Medieval-fantasy roleplaying wargame, in the Black-Sea C. 1300 (samsorensen.blot.im)

Show HN: Pickaxe – A TypeScript library for building AI agents (github.com)

WhatsApp banned on House staffers' devices (axios.com)

NASA's Voyager Found a 30k-50k Kelvin "Wall" at the Edge of Solar System (iflscience.com)

New Linux udisks flaw lets attackers get root on major Linux distros (bleepingcomputer.com)

Homotopy Equivalences (bartoszmilewski.com)

Interesting Bits of Postgres Grammar (steve.dignam.xyz)

Nano-Vllm: Lightweight vLLM implementation built from scratch (github.com)

Transparent Ambition (take.surf)

Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol (theguardian.com)

RaptorCast: Designing a Messaging Layer (category.xyz)

Polystate: Composable Finite State Machines (github.com)

The X Window System didn't immediately have X terminals (utcc.utoronto.ca)

U.S. Chemical Safety Board Could be Eliminated (ishn.com)

BYOK – Bring Your Own Keyboard (byok.io)

Python can run Mojo now (koaning.io)

Ask HN: How to get rid of Gemini?

Using Wave Function Collapse to solve puzzle map generation at scale (sublevelgames.github.io)

Using Home Assistant, adguard home and an $8 smart outlet to avoid brain rot (romanklasen.com)

Optifye.ai (YC W25) is hiring a back end engineer

Show HN: Luna Rail – Treating night trains as a spatial optimization problem (luna-rail.com)

Built a newsletter sharing AI tools for dads (feedback wanted)

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