每天你都在刷：
- 🚫 300+ 条推文 来自转发同样新闻的 AI 网红
- 🚫 几十篇博客 作者从未真正做过 AI 产品
- 🚫 炒作式标题 错过战略意义
- 🚫 数小时浪费 在分离信号和噪音
你获得了信息，但没有变聪明。
Andy Follows 是你的个人 AI 情报系统：
✅ 追踪 50+ 信息源 来自构建十亿美金 AI 公司的创始人、部署资本的 VC、用 AI 扩大影响的创作者
✅ 严格过滤 —— 只要有实战经验的人的 AI 相关内容
✅ 每日推送洞察 按你的战略优先级组织
✅ 本地运行 —— 完全自主、无 API 成本、隐私优先
# 不用刷 3 小时 Twitter
/andy-follows
# 15 分钟内获得：
- Andrej Karpathy 在构建什么
- Marc Andreessen 在投什么
- Dan Koe 如何用 AI 将内容产出提升 10 倍这不是又一个 AI 新闻聚合器。Andy Follows 服务于一个具体的战略框架：Andy 自由之屋 —— 通过 AI 实现真正的自由（财务、时间、创作、思想）的三大支柱：
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优先级 1：基础 学习如何用 AI 构建 "我能创造什么？" |
优先级 2：战略 理解资金流向 "什么值得做？" |
优先级 3：放大 掌握如何扩大影响力 "如何触达用户？" |
协同效应：构建产品（支柱 1）→ 用市场信号验证（支柱 2）→ 增长受众（支柱 3）→ 实现一人十亿美金公司
关注建设者，而非影响者
追踪那些构建产品、部署资本、塑造政策的人 ——
而非仅仅谈论它的人
这意味着：
| ✅ 纳入 | ❌ 排除 |
|---|---|
| Andrej Karpathy（OpenAI 构建 AI 系统） | 泛泛的"AI 网红"（转发新闻） |
| Marc Andreessen（部署数十亿美元于 AI） | "思想领袖"（没有实战） |
| Dan Koe（用 AI 扩大创作者业务） | 鸡汤内容（无实战策略） |
| Guillermo Rauch（发布 Vercel v0） | 科技博主（复述产品发布） |
AI 优先：马斯克的 SpaceX 发射？过滤。他的 xAI 公告？保留。
海外聚焦：AI 创新集中在美国/欧洲。中国信息源有意排除。
质量标准：你能根据这个洞察采取行动吗？如果不能，就是噪音。
占你摘要的 30-40%
- OpenAI、Anthropic、Google DeepMind 的产品发布
- 实现挑战的技术深度解析
- 来自 Vercel、Replit、Cursor 的 AI 界面 UX 模式
- 开发者体验洞察
近期洞察：
- Anthropic 如何通过缓存将 Claude 延迟降低 80%
- Vercel v0 通过 AI 优先设计达到 100 万开发者的路径
- 为什么 Replit Agents 能实现自主代码部署
占你摘要的 30-40%
- 融资轮次和估值（OpenAI 66 亿美元、Anthropic 40 亿美元）
- 来自 a16z、Sequoia、Thrive 的 VC 投资论文
- 商业模式创新和单位经济
- 市场信号：资本流向
近期洞察：
- a16z 论文：基础模型毛利压缩至 20-30%
- 为什么 YC 认为垂直整合会胜出
- 消费级 AI 证明 TAM 大于 B2B（Character.AI：1 亿月活）
占你摘要的 20-30%
- AI 辅助内容创作工作流
- 顶级创作者的受众增长策略
- 创作者商业模式和变现
- 一人公司案例研究
近期洞察：
- Dan Koe 的 AI 工作流：5 倍内容产出，质量不变
- Justin Welsh 的 AI 辅助 LinkedIn：月均 1000 万触达
- 使用 AI 的创作者收入是不使用者的 2.3 倍（ConvertKit 数据）
# 1. 克隆到技能目录
git clone https://github.com/AIPMAndy/andy-follows.git ~/.claude/skills/andy-follows
cd ~/.claude/skills/andy-follows/scripts && npm install
# 2. 设置 AnySearch（数据源）
# 安装：https://github.com/your-anysearch-link
# 3. 配置推送（可选）
cp .env.example ~/.andy-follows/.env
# 添加你的 Telegram bot token 或飞书 webhook
# 4. 运行
# 在 Claude Code 中："运行 Andy Follows" 或 /andy-follows- Agent 通过 AnySearch 获取数据（Twitter、博客、播客）
- Claude 过滤 AI 相关性 + 战略契合度
- 总结 采用第一性原理分析
- 推送 到 Telegram / 飞书 / 对话
节省时间：3 小时刷屏 → 15 分钟阅读精选洞察
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ 你的本地机器 │
│ │
│ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐│
│ │ AnySearch │────▶│ Claude AI │────▶│ 推送 ││
│ │ MCP 服务器 │ │ 处理 │ │ (Telegram/ ││
│ │ │ │ │ │ 飞书/对话) ││
│ │ • Twitter │ │ • 过滤 AI │ └──────────────┘│
│ │ • RSS 订阅 │ │ • 总结 │ │
│ │ • 播客 │ │ • 翻译 │ │
│ └──────────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
公开 API Prompt 工程 你的渠道
(无需 keys) (完全可定制) (你控制)
为什么本地优先？
- ✅ 无 API 成本（不像 follow-builders 每月 $100 Twitter API）
- ✅ 完全控制数据源和时间
- ✅ 隐私：你的数据永不离开你的机器
- ✅ 可定制：即时编辑 prompts、添加信息源
[完整中文版本请参考仓库]
为 Andy 自由之屋服务 — 关注建设者，而非影响者
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Your AI-powered intelligence system that cuts through the hype and delivers first-principles insights from the people actually building, investing in, and shaping AI.
Every day, you scroll through:
- 🚫 300+ tweets from AI influencers regurgitating the same news
- 🚫 Dozens of blog posts written by people who've never shipped AI products
- 🚫 Hype-driven headlines that miss the strategic implications
- 🚫 Hours wasted separating signal from noise
You end up informed, but not smarter.
Andy Follows is your personal AI intelligence system that:
✅ Tracks 50+ sources from founders building billion-dollar AI companies, VCs deploying capital, and creators scaling with AI
✅ Filters ruthlessly — Only AI-relevant content from people with skin in the game
✅ Delivers daily insights organized by your strategic priorities
✅ Runs locally — Full control, no API costs, privacy-first
# Instead of 3 hours scrolling Twitter
/andy-follows
# Get this in 15 minutes:
- What Andrej Karpathy is building
- Where Marc Andreessen is deploying capital
- How Dan Koe is using AI to scale content 10xThis isn't just another AI newsletter aggregator. Andy Follows serves a specific strategic framework: Andy's Freedom House — achieving true freedom (financial, time, creative, intellectual) in the AI era through three pillars:
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Priority 1: Foundation Learn how to BUILD with AI "What can I create?" |
Priority 2: Strategy Understand where MONEY flows "What's worth building?" |
Priority 3: Amplification Master how to SCALE influence "How do I reach users?" |
The Synergy: Build products (Pillar 1) → Validate with market signals (Pillar 2) → Grow audience (Pillar 3) → Achieve one-person $1B company
📖 Deep dive into Andy's Freedom House →
Follow builders, not influencers.
Track people who BUILD products, DEPLOY capital, SHAPE policy —
not those who merely TALK about it.
This means:
| ✅ Include | ❌ Exclude |
|---|---|
| Andrej Karpathy (builds AI systems at OpenAI) | Generic "AI influencer" (retweets news) |
| Marc Andreessen (deploys billions in AI) | "Thought leader" (no skin in game) |
| Dan Koe (scales creator business with AI) | Motivational content (no tactics) |
| Guillermo Rauch (ships Vercel v0) | Tech blogger (recaps launches) |
AI-First: Elon's SpaceX launch? Filtered. His xAI announcement? Included.
Overseas Focus: AI innovation is concentrated in US/Europe. Chinese sources intentionally excluded.
Quality Bar: Can you act on this insight? If not, it's noise.
30-40% of your digest
- Product launches from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind
- Technical deep-dives on implementation challenges
- UX patterns for AI interfaces from Vercel, Replit, Cursor
- Developer experience insights
Recent insights:
- How Anthropic reduced Claude latency 80% with caching
- Vercel v0's path to 1M developers with AI-first design
- Why Replit Agents enable autonomous code deployment
30-40% of your digest
- Funding rounds and valuations (OpenAI's $6.6B, Anthropic's $4B)
- VC investment theses from a16z, Sequoia, Thrive
- Business model innovations and unit economics
- Market signals: where capital flows
Recent insights:
- a16z's thesis: Foundation model margins compressing to 20-30%
- Why YC believes vertical integration will win
- Consumer AI proves bigger TAM than B2B (Character.AI: 100M MAU)
20-30% of your digest
- AI-assisted content creation workflows
- Audience growth strategies from top creators
- Creator business models and monetization
- One-person company case studies
Recent insights:
- Dan Koe's AI workflow: 5x content output, same quality
- Justin Welsh's AI-assisted LinkedIn: 10M monthly reach
- Creators using AI earn 2.3x more (ConvertKit data)
# 1. Clone to skills directory
git clone https://github.com/AIPMAndy/andy-follows.git ~/.claude/skills/andy-follows
cd ~/.claude/skills/andy-follows/scripts && npm install
# 2. Set up AnySearch (data source)
# Install: https://github.com/your-anysearch-link
# 3. Configure delivery (optional)
cp .env.example ~/.andy-follows/.env
# Add your Telegram bot token or Lark webhook
# 4. Run it
# In Claude Code: "Run Andy Follows" or /andy-follows- Agent fetches data via AnySearch (Twitter, blogs, podcasts)
- Claude filters for AI relevance + strategic fit
- Summarizes with first-principles analysis
- Delivers to Telegram / Lark / chat
Time saved: 3 hours scrolling → 15 minutes reading curated insights
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ Your Local Machine │
│ │
│ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐ ┌──────────────┐│
│ │ AnySearch │────▶│ Claude AI │────▶│ Delivery ││
│ │ MCP Server │ │ Processing │ │ (Telegram/ ││
│ │ │ │ │ │ Lark/Chat) ││
│ │ • Twitter │ │ • Filter AI │ └──────────────┘│
│ │ • RSS feeds │ │ • Summarize │ │
│ │ • Podcasts │ │ • Translate │ │
│ └──────────────┘ └──────────────┘ │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
│ │ │
▼ ▼ ▼
Public APIs Prompt Engineering Your channels
(No keys needed) (Fully customizable) (You control)
Why local-first?
- ✅ No API costs (unlike follow-builders' $100/month Twitter API)
- ✅ Full control over data sources and timing
- ✅ Privacy: your data never leaves your machine
- ✅ Customizable: edit prompts, add sources instantly
Twitter Builders:
Andrej Karpathy • Swyx • Guillermo Rauch • Amjad Masad • Alex Albert • Boris Cherny • Josh Woodward • Simon Willison • Eugene Yan • Harrison Chase • Logan Kilpatrick • Jason Liu • Hamel Husain
Engineering Blogs:
Anthropic • OpenAI • Google AI • Vercel AI • Replicate • Hugging Face
Podcasts:
Latent Space (Swyx & Alessio)
Investor Twitter:
Marc Andreessen • Garry Tan • Sam Altman • Matt Turck • Aaron Levie • Sarah Guo • Tomasz Tunguz • Shardul Shah
VC Blogs:
a16z AI • Sequoia AI • YC Blog • FirstMark AI
Podcasts:
No Priors • Training Data • The MAD Podcast
Creator Twitter:
Dan Koe • Justin Welsh • Sahil Bloom • Dickie Bush • Pieter Levels • Nathan Barry • Lenny Rachitsky • Alex Garcia • Blake Emal • Alexis Ohanian
Creator Blogs:
Lenny's Newsletter • ConvertKit • Li Jin • Not Boring • Every
Podcasts:
My First Million • The Creator Economy Show • How I Write
| Feature | Andy Follows | follow-builders | Generic AI Newsletter | Twitter Lists |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Focus | Strategic framework (3 pillars) | General AI builders | Random curation | Chronological chaos |
| Filtering | AI + category fit | AI-related | Minimal | None |
| Analysis | First-principles insights | Basic summaries | Regurgitated news | You do it |
| Cost | Free (local) | $100/mo (APIs) | $20/mo subscription | Free (but your time) |
| Control | Full (edit sources/prompts) | Limited | None | Limited |
| Privacy | Local-first | Central server | Third-party | Public |
| Time to value | 15 min/day | 30 min/day | 45 min/day | 3 hours/day |
"Finally, a way to follow AI without feeling like I'm drowning in content."
— Product builder using Andy Follows
"The 'follow builders, not influencers' principle is exactly what I needed."
— Indie hacker
"Saved me 10+ hours per week. The ROI is insane."
— AI investor
Tell Claude what you want:
- "Focus more on AI product strategy"
- "I want deeper technical details"
- "Make summaries more concise"
- "Switch to weekly digests"
All logic lives in editable markdown files:
prompts/
├── summarize-ai-product.md # Product insights extraction
├── summarize-ai-investment.md # Investment analysis
├── summarize-ai-ip.md # Personal brand insights
├── filter-ai-relevance.md # Relevance filtering
└── translate.md # Translation rules
Change a prompt → next digest reflects it instantly.
Edit config/sources-*.json:
{
"twitter": ["@YourFavoriteBuilder"],
"blogs": ["https://builder-blog.com/rss"],
"podcasts": ["https://podcast-feed.com/feed.xml"]
}Agent automatically picks them up.
- ✅ 100% local — All data fetching and processing on your machine
- ✅ No cloud services — Unlike SaaS alternatives
- ✅ No API keys exposed — AnySearch handles public content
- ✅ Your credentials stay local — Telegram/Lark tokens in
~/.andy-follows/.env - ✅ Open source — Audit the code yourself
We'd love your help making Andy Follows better!
High-value contributions:
- 🎯 New sources (must be builders/investors/creators with skin in game)
- 🧠 Prompt improvements (better summarization, filtering)
- 🐛 Bug fixes (especially edge cases in data fetching)
- 📚 Documentation (setup guides, troubleshooting)
Not accepted:
- ❌ AI influencers with no real work
- ❌ Chinese sources (project is overseas-focused)
- ❌ Non-AI content sources
- v1.1: Web dashboard for digest history
- v1.2: Slack integration
- v1.3: Custom digest schedules (daily/weekly/on-demand)
- v2.0: Multi-language support (Spanish, French, German)
- v2.1: Export to Notion/Obsidian
- v3.0: Community-curated source library
Vote on features in Discussions.
- 📘 Andy's Freedom House Framework — Deep dive into the 3-pillar strategy
- 🔧 How It Works — Technical architecture and data flow
- 📊 Sample Digest — See what you'll get
- 🆚 vs. follow-builders — Detailed comparison
MIT License — Free to use, modify, and share.
See LICENSE for details.
Inspired by follow-builders by Zara Zhang. The "follow builders" philosophy and conversational setup approach are adapted from that excellent project.
Special thanks to the AI community for building in public. 🚀
- 🐦 Twitter: @AIPMAndy
- 💬 Discussions: GitHub Discussions
- 🐛 Issues: GitHub Issues
- 📧 Email: andy@freedomhouse.ai
Follow builders, not influencers. Build your freedom house.
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