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Yes. focus on one specific topic or field of study. Think of it like starting a fire. You want to get the core really hot first, before trying to burn other things.

Hacker news used to be called Startup news, because all it did was talk about startups. pg only expanded it later because only startup news was too boring.

Reddit only started with a few topics, IIRC-- /r/programming r/startups, and something else. Just topics that the founders found interesting.

AI is the right way to go. It's what people are interested in right now, and market demonstrates there's a need with existing twitter handles and newsletters that purport to cover AI papers.



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