FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What last30days is, how it works, and how it's priced.
- What is last30days?
- last30days is an always-on research analyst for tech topics. You tell it a company, tool, trend, or market to watch, and on a recurring schedule it reads what people actually said across Reddit, Hacker News, X, YouTube, TikTok, Perplexity and more over the trailing 30 days, then emails you a sharp, cited brief of what changed and what it means. It is a premium research subscription, not a newsletter generator.
- Is last30days software, or a service?
- Think of it as a service, productized — Service-as-a-Service. You don't log into a dashboard to run research yourself; you buy the outcome: a cited brief in your inbox on a schedule, the way you'd keep a research analyst on retainer. We do the work — searching the social and news web, weighing it by what people actually engaged with, synthesizing, and quality-checking — and deliver the finished result. You're paying for the analysis done for you, not for seats of software to operate. A human analyst doing this runs roughly $5,000/month; last30days starts at $99.
- What is the “last30days” skill, and how is last30days.xyz different?
- “last30days” is a popular open-source skill (MIT-licensed, created by mvanhorn, at https://github.com/mvanhorn/last30days-skill) that lets an AI agent search Reddit, X, YouTube, Hacker News and more in parallel and synthesize a brief ranked by real engagement. It is excellent — but it runs on demand, in your own terminal, and you operate and configure it yourself each time. That research skill is just one piece of what we do. last30days.xyz is a separate, independent service that uses it as the foundation and adds the intelligence layer on top: we run the research for you on a recurring cycle, then compound the memory — every cycle builds on the last, tracking what is new, what is holding up, what is disputed, and what has gone quiet — quality-check it, and email a cited brief you can also ask questions of. Done-for-you and scheduled, with hosted pages, white-label, and team options. We are a descriptive brand, not the upstream project.
- How does it work?
- Tell us a topic and your email. We read the last 30 days of public discussion across Reddit, Hacker News, X, YouTube, TikTok, Perplexity and more, synthesize the signal with AI, and quality-check the brief before it is sent. You receive a cited brief by email — what changed, what people think, and what it means — plus a hosted web page you can share.
- What does it cost?
- Two plans, billed monthly: Operator at $99/month tracks 3 topics with weekly, bi-weekly, or 30-day cycles. Agency at $399/month tracks 10 topics and adds a faster twice-weekly cycle, white-label briefs (your domain and logo), a shared team workspace, and an agent-ready .md export. There is no recurring free tier — instead, your first brief on one topic is free.
- Is the first brief really free, and do I need to log in?
- Yes. Enter a topic and your email and your first brief is generated and emailed for free — no account and no login required. The free preview recurs twice, about seven days apart, on one topic per email address, so you feel the recurring value before deciding. You only create an account — with a password, or with Google or GitHub — when you subscribe or want to manage your topics.
- Are my briefs private?
- Your free briefs are public. Each free brief gets a hosted, shareable page that can appear on our Examples page and be indexed by search engines, so others may see it — that is part of how the free preview works. Paid briefs are private: once you subscribe, briefs on your tracked topics are never published publicly. If you start free and then upgrade, your earlier free briefs stay public, but every brief after you subscribe is private.
- What is a cycle?
- A cycle is how often a topic is refreshed. Each topic runs against a rolling 30-day window — the “30 days” is the brand, the cycle is the cadence. Every plan can choose weekly, bi-weekly, or 30-day per topic; the default is weekly. Agency adds a faster twice-weekly option, so you can stay current on fast-moving topics.
- Are the briefs reviewed before they're sent?
- Yes. Every brief is synthesized by AI and then quality-checked before it is sent, so you get decision-ready signal rather than raw model output. Briefs are cited: claims link back to the public sources they came from.
- What topics can I track?
- Anything in tech — a company, a product or tool, a trend, a market, or a person. last30days is built for tech-oriented agencies, freelancers, consultancies, and founders whose job is to be the most current person in the room.
- What is the difference between Operator and Agency?
- Operator ($99/month) is for individuals tracking a few topics: 3 tracked topics, weekly/bi-weekly/30-day cycles, and a hosted brief archive. Agency ($399/month) is for client work: 10 tracked topics, a faster twice-weekly cycle, white-label briefs on your own domain and logo, a shared team workspace, the full Topic Intelligence layer (Market Map and the Analyst Agent), and an agent-ready .md export.
- What does white-label include?
- On the Agency plan, briefs and their emails carry your domain and logo instead of ours, so you can deliver them to clients as your own research. Agency also includes a shared team workspace so colleagues collaborate in one place.
- Where does the data come from, and is it cited?
- Briefs are built from public discussion over the trailing 30 days across Reddit, Hacker News, X, YouTube, TikTok, Perplexity and more. Every brief is cited — the claims link back to the sources they are drawn from, so you can verify the signal yourself.
- Is this a better alternative to Google Alerts for a tech topic?
- Google Alerts pings you with links to new pages — mostly news and blogs ranked by SEO. last30days reads what people actually said about your topic across Reddit, Hacker News, X, YouTube, TikTok, Perplexity and more over the last 30 days, weighs it by real engagement (upvotes, views, replies), and synthesizes a decision-ready, cited brief: what changed, what people think, and what it means. You get analysis on a schedule instead of a stream of links to triage yourself.
- Isn't ChatGPT or a deep-research tool enough to stay current?
- General assistants have a knowledge cutoff and can't natively search across all of Reddit, X, YouTube and TikTok at once, and a one-off deep-research run is something you have to remember to prompt and verify. last30days is always-on: it reads the trailing 30 days across the full source mix, separates fact from sentiment, cites every claim, and lands in your inbox on your cycle — so staying current is automatic, not another task. It's a senior analyst on retainer, not a tool you operate.