Life & fun · alternatives · 2026

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. I send out top JavaScript articles every Friday launched in 2017; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1
   This▲147

   Each member can share just one link a day.

   2016 · its alternatives →

2. 2
   Always Reading▲102

   Queue up articles and schedule when you want to read them.

   2018 · its alternatives →

3. 3
   Highly▲149

   Highlight any article and share it on social media

   2014 · its alternatives →

4. 4
   The Sunday Dispatches▲109

   A newsletter for creativity, freelancing and life.

   2014 · usefathom.com · its alternatives →

5. 5
   MondayLeads▲74

   Receive fresh Twitter leads in your inbox every monday.

   2015 · its alternatives →

6. 6
   Web Tools Weekly▲94

   One email per week with the best front-end web tools

   2014 · webtoolsweekly.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   Writrsbloc▲64

   A curated newsletter with the week's best writing

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8
   Awesome Weekly▲38

   The most awesome stuff on the web in the past week

   2017 · its alternatives →

9. 9
   Bytes▲30

   Your weekly dose of JavaScript

   2021 · bytes.dev · its alternatives →

10. 10AD
    A Drip of JavaScript▲31

    Over the past couple of years, I've been very impressed by Kale Davis's Hacker Newsletter and Peter Cooper's entire newsletter empire. They're clearly meeting people's need to stay caught up on industry news without spending their entire lives watching HN and Twitter. Their success has inspired me to try something similar. So I've just begun publishing a JS newsletter called "A Drip of JavaScript." Rather than focus on the latest JS news (which JavaScript Weekly already does rather well), each issue is just a short article about some aspect of programming in JavaScript. The newsletter is…

    2013 · designpepper.com · its alternatives →

11. 11
    My weekend project - Common API for Javascript Engines▲5

    2011 · github.com · its alternatives →

12. 12
    I Don't Have Time For Podcasts▲5

    Every Friday, I'll email you one cool podcast to try.

    2017 · mailchimp.com · its alternatives →

13. 13SA
    Scrib.am, my encyclopedia, inspired by Diderot. One article per day▲6

    2022 · scrib.am · its alternatives →

14. 14WB
    We built a thing in Google Scripts that audits your calendar every week▲8

    2019 · docs.google.com · its alternatives →

15. 15FQ
    Find Quality Written Content from Across the Web▲9

    2018 · readory.com · its alternatives →

16. 16RL
    Read later links as weekly email▲6

    2022 · linksaber.com · its alternatives →

17. 17DE
    Daily e-mail with all HN stories over x points▲9

    2017 · hackernewsemail.com · its alternatives →

18. 18YR
    Yesterday-Read all updates from your favorite websites in a single mail▲5

    2021 · yesterday.poolhq.co · its alternatives →

19. 19
    NYT Now▲11

    A faster way to get caught up on the news

    2014 · nytimes.com · its alternatives →

20. 20
    Get content from Twitter, RSS, Reddit, and HN in your inbox every day▲5

    Get the content that matters to you delivered in a single email every day.

    2020 · cortadomail.com · its alternatives →

21. 21NS
    News site using NLP to analyze social data and write its own headlines▲8

    2015 · newsninja.com · its alternatives →

22. 22FP
    Fullweb, Python flavored newsletter for fullstack developers▲9

    2015 · fullweb.io · its alternatives →

23. 23AG
    A geeky way to surf news▲6

    2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

24. 24MD
    My DevOps Friday Newsletter▲8

    2013 · kyotosolutionslimited.createsend1.com · its alternatives →

Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →