A small team in three cities, with one shared problem.
For most of the last century, a thoughtful reader had an editor doing the unglamorous work behind the morning paper — deciding what was worth your attention and what wasn't, by name, with a byline you could write to. That arrangement quietly ended sometime around 2014. The feed replaced the front page. The ranking became opaque. The editor never came back.
FireHose is our attempt to bring the editor back, but as something a single person can own. The brief you write is the editorial mandate. The model is the desk. The morning dispatch is the wire. The work the system does at 03:00 UTC, while you sleep, is the work an editor used to do at a folding table at 02:00 with a red pen.
We're a small team distributed across NEW YORK, BERLIN, and TOKYO — three timezones chosen on purpose, so the wire is always being watched by someone awake. We come from editorial desks, search-ranking teams, and the kind of consumer product work that takes restraint seriously. The team is small enough that you can email an editor and a human writes back.
FireHose is independent and self-funded. We sell subscriptions; that is the only revenue line, and we intend to keep it that way. No ads, no data licensing, no enterprise pivot that quietly hollows out the consumer product. The manifesto on the home page is not marketing — it's the actual product spec we hold ourselves to.
— the editorial team, 20 May 2026