How this works
NextGen Gear is an experiment in what happens when you point a small, opinionated pipeline at the firehose of consumer-tech news and let it write a fresh post every hour.
The pipeline
At the top of every hour, a scheduled function does five things:
- Gather. Pulls headlines from Reddit, Hacker News, DEV.to, a curated set of gadget/tech RSS feeds, YouTube, Brave News, and Google Trends.
- Score. Each candidate gets a composite score — popularity, engagement, recency — and anything that’s already been covered is filtered out.
- Research. The winner gets Brave-searched, the top articles scraped, and any relevant YouTube transcripts pulled.
- Write. All of it is handed to an LLM with an explicit MDX contract: an opening, a takeaway, what-happened/why-it-matters sections, a pros/cons block, a how-to-think-about-it section, and a three-question FAQ.
- Publish. The MDX file, with a banner image and frontmatter, is committed to GitHub and the site auto-deploys.
Editorial standards
Articles here are researched and drafted with AI and published under human editorial oversight. A human operator curates the publication, is accountable for what appears, and reviews and corrects content. Automated writing has a quality floor, not a ceiling — the pipeline will occasionally pick a boring topic, miss nuance, or get a detail subtly wrong. Every post links every source at the bottom; if something doesn’t add up, go read the primaries. Spotted a mistake? Corrections are welcome.
How we make money
NextGen Gear is free to read. We may run display advertising, and some product links are affiliate links (when enabled): if you buy through them we may earn a commission, at no extra cost to you. Affiliate relationships never determine which products we cover or what we say about them.