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Too much noise
Every Twitter scroll is the same 12 launch threads. Nurple cuts the recycled hype and surfaces what's actually new.
Issue #047 ships Tuesday
The AI projects that actually matter — in your inbox every Tuesday.
Nurple is a 5-minute weekly briefing on the most promising AI projects shipping right now. Hand-picked for builders, engineers, and the AI-curious. No hype cycles. No regurgitated launch tweets.
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Why Nurple
The AI feed is broken.
We fix it for you.
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Too many tabs
40 newsletters, 200 GitHub stars, 6 Discords. We read it all so you read one thing, once a week.
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Too late, every time
By the time it's on the front page, your competitors have shipped. We catch projects when they're still 200 stars and a README.
Inside every issue
5 minutes. 6 sections. Zero filler.
The Big Three
Three AI projects worth your attention this week — with a 60-second take on why each matters.
Under 1k Stars
One emerging repo before it goes viral. Perfect for early contributors and engineers hunting for an edge.
Ship It
A copy-pasteable code snippet, prompt pattern, or recipe you can deploy by lunch.
Funding Watch
AI rounds, acquisitions and exits — distilled into one paragraph. Know who got paid, why, and what it means.
Model of the Week
A new open-weight model with benchmarks, real-world tests, and an honest verdict — not a launch press release.
Reader Drop
Projects from subscribers, looking for testers, contributors, or early users. Yours could be next.
Latest issue
A taste of what lands Tuesday.
No clickbait. No "10 AI tools that will blow your mind." Just signal, written by humans who actually ship.
- Why llamacpp-rpc is the sleeper of distributed inference
- The 600-star RAG library that just dethroned LangChain on benchmarks
- Anthropic's quiet $0.40/M token move (and what it does to margins)
- One prompt pattern that cut our agent latency 38%
What readers say
Loved by people who'd rather build than scroll.
"I cancelled three other AI newsletters after my second Nurple. It's the only one that finds projects I haven't already seen on my timeline."
"Tuesday morning, coffee, Nurple. I've shipped two side projects this quarter from ideas I found in the 'Under 1k Stars' section."
"The funding section alone saves me an hour of Crunchbase doomscrolling. Concise, opinionated, and almost always right."
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Frequently asked
Quick answers.
How often will you email me?
Once a week, every Tuesday at 7am ET. Never more. We hate inbox clutter as much as you do.
Is it really free?
Yes. Forever. We may launch a paid tier with deeper teardowns one day, but the weekly issue stays free.
How do you pick projects?
A small editorial team with shipping experience at OpenAI, Hugging Face, and Vercel reads ~300 repos, papers, and threads each week. We pick on technical signal, not GitHub popularity.
Do sponsors influence picks?
Never. Sponsorships, when they exist, are clearly labelled and editorially separate. Zero in our first 47 issues.
Can I submit my project?
Yes — there's a "Reader Drop" section in every issue. Subscribe first, then reply to any issue with your link.
How do I unsubscribe?
One click at the bottom of any issue. No questions, no win-back campaigns. We respect your inbox.
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