All the news that fits on one page.
The Morning Edition
Paperboy writes you a one-page personal newspaper overnight: your weather, your calendar, the news you actually chose, a comic, a crossword. At six in the morning it prints itself on the printer you already own.
Tomorrow’s front page, roughly
Good morning. The presses are warming up.
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Your calendar slots in here. One pasted link, no accounts, no permissions.
A sudoku, a word search, a five-by-five crossword and a chess problem take turns, one a day. The Numbers Game and the cryptogram run daily; a quiz on Fridays. Solutions printed upside down, as is right and proper.
A single-panel comic, drawn nightly from the day’s lightest story. Yesterday’s starred a robot catching a falling telescope.
Live preview: the weather and the headlines are real, fetched just now. Tick sections in and out; the real thing works the same way.
At half past five, while you sleep, an editor with infinite patience reads your feeds, your forecast and your calendar, and writes the whole thing fresh: headlines, a weather line with an opinion, a brief for the day ahead.
At six, the printer in your hallway wakes with a familiar hum and hands you one crisp page, or two on a busy news day.
At two minutes past six, you are reading the morning paper with your coffee, and your phone has not said a word yet.
The house paperboy, at work on your route.
The news did not get worse. The way you read it did. A feed is a slot machine; a page is a letter. It starts, it ends, and nothing on it is trying to keep you scrolling or sell you anything: there are no ads, and there never will be.
Every other subscription in your life is a bid for more of your screen time. This one is the opposite: it is a subscription to being offline. Paperboy does not ask you to quit your phone; it just takes over the first twenty minutes of the day, the ones that set the tone for the rest.
“A feed is a slot machine. A page is a letter.”
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If it prints, it delivers. Paperboy works with the inkjet gathering dust in your hallway, the laser at the office, or no printer at all: every edition also arrives in your email inbox, beautifully typeset, with the print file attached.
Gift routes are coming: your grandmother’s printer, your subscription, her morning paper, with a line from you printed at the top. Couples are already scheming; two papers, each carrying a note from the other, read over the same breakfast.
Will the paperboy actually reach my town?
The route already runs through your neighborhood: if there is a printer and a forecast, there is a paper. Six o’clock, local time, rain or shine. Usually rain, we checked.
Do I need some special printer?
No. Any printer that prints A4 or Letter. The paper is one duplex sheet: front page on one side, back page on the other. Some printers even have their own email address and print the morning edition entirely by themselves; The Pressroom explains yours, brand by brand.
Who writes it? Is it just a feed dump?
An editor reads your sources and writes fresh headlines and summaries in its own words, always credited and linked. Short, factual, no bait. The comic it draws itself.
What does my data situation look like?
You give us a city, an email, and the feeds you want. No accounts to connect unless you choose to share a calendar link. Your paper is yours; we do not sell readers, and we do not print ads.
FOR SALE: One personal newspaper, written nightly, delivered daily to your printer and your inbox. Owner asks:
$9
per month · about 30 cents an issue
Founding readers get their first month free when the presses open. No contract. Cancel anytime; the papers are yours to keep, obviously. They are paper.
The presses open soon. Leave your address and the paperboy will ring your (email) doorbell first.
One email when we launch. Maybe one more if the news is very good. That is all.