The distilled feed.

Dstla (pronounced “dis-TIL-uh,” like “distill”) sits between you and the internet’s chaos. We compress the relentless stream of signals into one clinical distillation you can finish before the coffee cools.

Built for anti-addiction

  • No infinite scroll, no slot-machine refresh.
  • One distillation per cadence - done when it's done.
  • Prompts and tone you control, not an opaque algorithm.

Why Dstla exists

The modern feed is optimized for engagement, not clarity. Even the smartest timeline still wants you doomscrolling into the night. Dstla is a counter-design: we treat your attention as a scarce, high-signal resource. Instead of more notifications, you get a single daily (or monthly) distillation that tells you what moved.

The analogy is a newspaper, but synthetic - machine assistants sweep the feed, pick the deltas, and annotate it so you can act. When you finish the page, you are done. No "refresh for more" dopamine loops.

How we distill

We ingest real-time feeds, batch them into runs, and push them through our summarizer stack. The system biases toward precision: transparent prompts, attribution, and structured sections so you know where every insight came from.

Today we focus on Twitter because that's where signal density lives for most pros. The same pipeline will expand to RSS, newsletters, and other social graphs so Dstla becomes your single pane of context.

Operating principles

What guides every design and engineering decision inside Dstla.

Filter > FOMO

We ruthlessly compress. If a detail doesn’t move your strategy, it doesn’t make the page.

Clinical UI

Neutral colors, deliberate typography, zero growth glitter. The UI should feel like instrumentation, not social media.

Transparent prompts

You can inspect and customize the instructions we send to the model. Nothing is hidden behind “secret sauce”.

Finite cadence

Daily briefs for pros, monthly for the free tier. Scarcity keeps you focused and protects the API economics.

What’s next

Short list of the initiatives we’re actively building.

  • Multi-feed support. Expanding beyond Twitter to RSS, Instagram, and other feeds so you get one unified distillation across all your sources.
  • Adaptive cadences. Pro users will be able to schedule weekday vs weekend distillations.
  • Evidence locker. Deep links to original posts for every insight that hits the distillation.
  • Mobile surfaces. Native iOS + Android readers optimized for single-hand consumption.

Ready to reclaim your attention?

Connect a feed, choose a cadence, read one page.

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