Trina Tuazon

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Morning Drip

A content app built for people who want to replace mindless scrolling with something worth their time: a curated feed of articles spanning arts, music, technology, essays, and culture, sourced from independent publications that actually want to be read.

Role

End-to-end

Year

2026

About

Morning Drip started as a solution to one friend's problem. My buddy, David (Hi David!), wanted to stop losing his mornings to content he'd forget by lunch, and wanted a way to actually engage with the topics he cared about. So I built it for him, and somewhere along the way, it became the app I open every morning too. Built on a foundation of RSS feeds from independent, open-access publications, it delivers a clean, personalized reading experience without paywalls, pop-ups, or algorithmic noise. Every source hand-picked, because curation that means something can't be automated.

The Challenge

Building a content aggregator sounds straightforward until you run into the legal realities of scraping, the wall of paywalled publications, and the surprisingly manual work of finding sources that are both high quality and willing to share. The solution was to lean into RSS, a technology built for exactly this kind of consensual, publisher-approved distribution. The constraint ended up shaping the product for the better: the publications that want to reach readers tend to be the ones worth reading.

What now?

Morning Drip is alive and well, currently running as a web app. If you're curious or want to give it a try, reach out — I'm happy to share access!