Frequently asked
The questions we keep getting.
- What is Homefeed?
- A daily letter of 5 to 10 hometown news stories, translated into the language you read in, curated for what actually matters, and stripped of doomscroll bait. Built for diaspora readers who want to stay connected to home without spending an hour a day reading local papers.
- Where do the stories come from?
- Two sources: GDELT 2.0 (a free, real-time index of news from 65+ languages) and Google News RSSfor the country and region you tell us about. We dedupe across both, filter by the source-language outlet allowlist we've tuned per country, and feed the survivors to Claude Haiku to pick the most worthwhile stories.
- How is this different from Google News?
- Google News surfaces what's viral. Homefeed surfaces what your mother would call you about. Calm mode is on by default — no accident voyeurism, no political fury, no celebrity gossip. We weight local-to-you over national-trending, translate to your preferred language, and cap at 5 or 10 stories so you can finish the letter on a bus ride.
- What languages do you support?
- Source-language: 65+ via GDELT. Output language: any language Claude Haiku writes well — English, Spanish, Romanian, Hindi, Portuguese, French, Vietnamese, Filipino, plus more. Onboarding lets you pick your output language; account settings let you change it later.
- What's in each plan?
- Free — 5 stories every morning, one country, one region, calm mode, source-language headlines.
- Plus ($3.99/mo or $29/yr) — 10 stories, English translation + summary, 10 entity trackers, family sharing for 4 read-only seats, Sunday long-read essay.
- Concierge ($9.99/mo or $79/yr) — Everything in Plus, plus a native-language audio briefing of every letter.
- What's the trial?
- Plus and Concierge come with a 7-day free trial. We don't charge your card until day 8. Cancel anytime in your account or via the Stripe portal — no email-the-founder loops.
- How does family sharing work?
- Plus and Concierge subscribers can invite up to 4 family members. Each gets their own copy of your morning letter, their own unsubscribe link, and no access to your billing or preferences. Designed for parents, siblings, or kids who want the same daily digest without managing a separate subscription.
- What are entity trackers?
- A Plus feature. Tell us up to 10 entities — a person, a sports team, a company, your old high school. If any story in the day's pool mentions one of them, it gets pinned into your digest even if it wouldn't rank in the top 10 otherwise. Useful for keeping loose tabs on a hometown politician, your alma mater, or a relative in the news.
- When do letters arrive?
- 7am in your local timezone (the one you picked at onboarding). You can change the delivery hour in account settings. If you're traveling, change your timezone and the next letter arrives at 7am wherever you are.
- Why no full article text?
- Copyright. We pull headlines, write a 2-sentence paraphrase, and link out to the original publisher. Fair-use defensible, financially respectful of the outlets producing the work, and faster to read than a wall of full text.
- How do I cancel?
- Click the email link in any letter → /account → Manage billing → Cancel. Or reply to any letter with the word “unsubscribe” — we'll take it from there. No retention dark patterns, no win-back emails, no “are you sure?” loops.
- Do you track me?
- No third-party analytics, no Meta pixel, no Google Analytics. We log email delivery via Resend (open + click metrics on aggregate, no per-user surveillance) and send anonymized request logs to Vercel. See the privacy page for the full data flow.
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