Show HN: Porting my Newsletter to MCP – You set WHEN and HOW OFTEN to receive it
Alister Palmer has introduced an experimental delivery method for his newsletter, ForwardPass, allowing subscribers to choose when and how often they receive updates. This new feature addresses common limitations of traditional newsletters, such as fixed publishing times and inflexible delivery frequencies. Subscribers can now customize their experience by scheduling newsletters according to their preferences.
- ▪ForwardPass has gained 100 subscribers in its first week.
- ▪The new delivery method allows subscribers to choose their preferred delivery time and frequency.
- ▪Setup instructions are provided for integrating the ForwardPass MCP with AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT.
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| Original publisher | Hacker News (Newest) |
| Canonical URL | https://forwardpasstechnology.substack.com/p/you-decide-when-you-receive-forwardpass |
| Publication time | Mon, 25 May 2026 05:33:40 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-25T06:07:36.523Z |
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| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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You decide when you receive ForwardPass! (experimental)Experimenting to overcome the limitations of newslettersAlister PalmerMay 21, 202621ShareSubscribeAt some point over the last weekend I realised that ForwardPass had hit 100 subscribers (in a week!).As per the graphic, I also came to realise two of the limitations plaguing fledgling newsletters:You must publish each post simultaneously across the globe, so an optimal moment for one time-zone is middle-of-the-night for another and subscribers have no say on this time!Your subscribers are locked into a frequency of receiving newsletters the author decides (ie weekly or monthly).
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