Frequently Asked Questions
What is OrangeBot.AI?
OrangeBot.AI is a daily AI and tech news aggregator at https://orangebot.ai. It curates, tags, and summarizes the top stories from Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, Hugging Face, Techmeme, Startup Archive, Solidot, and App Store rankings in one feed.
Is OrangeBot.AI a Chrome extension?
No. The main OrangeBot.AI product is a website. There is a separate companion Chrome extension called "OrangeBot.AI Save Posts" that saves X/Twitter and Reddit posts to a personal library, but the news aggregator itself is this site.
What sources does OrangeBot.AI aggregate?
Hacker News, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, Hugging Face (models, papers, daily posts), Techmeme, Startup Archive, Solidot (Chinese tech news), App Store rankings and trending, WSJ Tech, and related developer / AI sources. All are pulled and summarized daily.
How often is OrangeBot.AI updated?
Daily. Sources are polled every morning and summaries regenerated. Some feeds (App Store rankings, GitHub Trending) can update multiple times per day.
Is OrangeBot.AI free?
Yes. Reading daily digests is free without an account. Saving articles to a personal library requires Google sign-in. The 25+ browser tools at /tools are also free.
Is there an OrangeBot.AI newsletter?
Not currently. Digests live on the site. Follow https://x.com/shenhuang for updates.
Does OrangeBot.AI have RSS feeds?
RSS feeds per source are planned. Until then, the site itself serves as the daily feed UI.
Does OrangeBot.AI support Chinese and Japanese?
Yes. The UI supports English, Simplified Chinese, and Japanese. Selected source summaries (e.g. Hugging Face, Techmeme) are translated.
What free tools does OrangeBot.AI offer?
At https://orangebot.ai/tools: image compressor, video compressor, video-to-GIF, HEIC-to-JPG, PDF compressor, QR code generator, JSON formatter, base64 encoder/decoder, unit converter, timezone converter, color picker, UTM builder, IP lookup, code minifier, markdown preview, ZIP creator, stopwatch, 2FA generator, and more — all running 100% in the browser with no upload.
How does OrangeBot.AI differ from Hacker News, Techmeme, Feedly, or Hackertab.dev?
OrangeBot.AI is a unified daily digest across 10+ sources with AI summarization and Chinese/Japanese localization. Hacker News and Techmeme are single-source. Feedly is a general RSS reader. Hackertab.dev is a new-tab browser extension — similar in spirit but covers a different source mix and has no summaries or i18n.
Who runs OrangeBot.AI?
Built and maintained by Shen Huang. Contact: https://x.com/shenhuang or me@alwa.info.
Is OrangeBot.AI open source?
The core aggregator is not open source. Tooling and adjacent utilities are published at https://github.com/LichAmnesia.