Case studies · TLDR Gripe
Today's tech news, summarised in a web app and an Android app
Design and development of TLDR Gripe, a web app and an Android app that summarise the day's tech news by category and update themselves every hour.
- Client
- TLDR Gripe
- Sector
- Digital media
- What we did
- Web appAndroid appAutomatic updatesProduct design
- Website
- tldr.gripe
The starting point
Keeping up with tech takes time: dozens of blogs, newsletters and outlets publish every day about AI, developer tools, security, startups and product launches. TLDR Gripe started from a simple idea: today’s tech news, summarised, in one place and with a link to the original source.
The challenge was to build a product that reads as fast as its name promises (too long; didn’t read) and stays up to date without anyone publishing by hand.
What we did
We designed and built the whole product: the tldr.gripe web app and the Android app. Both share a clean, reader-like interface where the content comes first.
- A feed of the day’s stories, each with its category, a short summary, the source, reading time and when it was published.
- More than twenty categories (launches, AI, dev, security, fintech, design, product…) to filter with one tap.
- Automatic hourly updates: new stories flow into the feed on their own, grouped by day.
- A page per story with the extended summary, how long it takes to read and a button to go to the source.
Every story: a summary in seconds and a direct link to the source
Search, save and personalise
The search page suggests trending searches and lists every topic with its story count. Stories can be saved to read later, and in settings readers choose light, dark or automatic mode, manage their reading history, log in to sync their saved stories and turn on email alerts for the topics they follow.
The Android app
We also built and published the TLDR Gripe Android app, available on Google Play and already past 1,000 downloads. It brings the same experience to mobile: short summaries or longer versions when you want more context, topics of your choice, search, saved stories and light or dark mode. We handled the whole store release: listing, screenshots, Google’s review and updates.
The app on Google Play, published by Nuvoling
On the website, mobile navigation moves to a bottom bar, just like a native app: feed, search, saved and settings, always within reach.
The result
TLDR Gripe is now a product that runs itself: every hour it brings in new stories, sorts them and presents them summarised, with a fast reading experience on desktop, in the mobile browser and in its own Android app.
