Social media is built to keep your family scrolling.
Homestake frees you, turning the sources you trust into a library your family shares.
For the adults
The most gold goes to the parents.
Homestake saves you the hours and hands you the insights — so you can learn what matters to you, solve real problems for your family, and know what to ask at dinner.
Hours become minutes
An 87-minute episode becomes a quick read — summary, key insights, quotes, flashcards. Keep up with the things you care about in the cracks of the day.
Figure things out for your family
Sleep, money, marriage, faith, health — build a Mine from sources you trust and ask it anything. Answers come with receipts, not guesses.
Know what they care about
Table Talk suggests what to ask each other, and the parent page shows what your kids are curious about. Walk into dinner with a good question.
Who it’s for
Sound familiar?
“I'm not handing my 14-year-old over to an algorithm. But there's real gold out there.”
Your kids learn from the channels, podcasts, and writers you already trust — no autoplay, no comments, no strangers. You approve every source once, and you can scan a creator's whole Gold Map first. Instead of abstaining from everything, choose the best — together.
Intentional-media families
“Everyone in this house is learning something. We're just never talking about it.”
The Hearth is your family's own table inside Homestake: share a dig, a piece of gold, or a question and its answer, and the conversation threads right there. Table Talk even suggests what to ask each other, drawn from what your family actually read this week. More to talk about, not less.
Every family with screens
“I used to read books. Now I save podcasts I never listen to.”
Create a Parenting Mine. Feed it the best content on sleep, discipline, family systems — a long episode becomes a quick read, and the gold stays saved for the moment you need it back. The kids aren't the only ones who get to learn around here.
Parents & caregivers
“10 subscriptions, multiple tabs open, not enough time.”
Subscribe once and every new video, episode, and article is dug automatically — the insights from a 1-hour podcast in about 2 minutes. Build a Mine for your world and let it compound. A Homestead of one is still a Homestead.
Busy professionals
Approvals
You choose your content. Not an algorithm.
Instead of banning everything, curate the best of it — together.
Get the full value of the YouTube channels, podcasts, and Substacks your family trusts — the ideas, dug into summaries and flashcards — without the algorithm, the autoplay, the comments, or the strangers.
When your child finds something new, it comes to you first. Take a look at the source, scan the creator’s whole Gold Map, and approve once — that covers everything from them, from now on. Approve for one child or for all of them, with an optional note back.
- Youth accounts sign in with a username — no email. Ages 13–17.
- Per-child monthly credit caps you set.
- External links stay off until you say otherwise.
- Everything’s in the open: children see “Adults on this Homestead can see your activity.”
The parent page isn’t an audit log — it’s what your child is curious about. “Eli asked 4 questions this week — mostly digging into Game Design.”
Eli wants to follow Mark Rober
YouTube channel · Approving covers everything from them, from now on
Take a look first · Scan the whole map first
Micah’s podcast ask — approved yesterday · For all youths
Micah asked how compound interest works. Good one for the drive to practice.
How do rocket engines actually work?
Mark Rober · YouTube
no credits used
Okay, the landing-backwards part blew my mind. Explaining it at dinner — be ready.
The Hearth
The place where your family talks about what everyone’s learning.
Every Homestead gets the Hearth — a private gathering place just for your family. Share a Dig, a quote, a question; conversation threads on each share, so a Wednesday reply finds Monday’s post. Six reactions, Quiz Duels, and Table Talk cards that turn the week’s digging into conversation starters for the drive or the dinner table.
Everyone keeps their own space — their own subscriptions, Digs, Mines, and Gold. The Hearth is where it comes together: anything a family member shares, you can pull straight into your own Mine, no credits used. Time here compounds into your family’s library and your family’s conversations.
Homestake gives your family more to talk about, not less.
Ask
Where your answers come from
Search Google — you get the answer from the whole web.
Ask ChatGPT — you get the answer it was trained on.
Ask Homestake — you get the answer from the sources your family chose and trusts.
Every answer shows the digs it drew from — you can check the receipts.
For kids, Ask answers only from their approved sources — and politely declines everything else.
Two ways to dig
Maps show you where to dig. Mines hold your trusted insights.
Two shapes for the same gold: one creator’s whole catalog, or your own collection across many.
Gold Maps
One creator’s whole body of work, mapped: the recurring themes, where to start, what’s changed lately. Ask the Map a question and it shows you where to dig. Adding a Map seeds 10 of its most-loved digs free — and your first two Maps come loaded.
Family Teams
Gold Map · 214 episodes mapped · updated Aug 12
Building a family that runs like a team
Your family is a team, not a hotel
- A weekly family meeting works like a team huddle
- Every kid gets a real role in the household, not just chores
Rhythms over rules
- One shared weekly meal anchors the whole week
Lately: family businesses, and training teens toward ownership.
Start here
Mines
A Mine is a library you group on purpose — the sources you value on one subject, from any platform. Ask across all of them at once and get an answer with receipts.
- Temperature regulation (60–67°F) appears in 5 of 8 sources
- Morning light exposure within 30 min of waking
- Consistent sleep/wake schedule trumps total hours
How it works
Three steps from link to Gold.
Hours of content, minutes to the good part — into a library you keep forever.
Add sources or paste a URL
Connect YouTube, podcasts, Substacks, PDFs, or web articles.
Homestake does the digging
Every piece of content is processed into summaries, insights, quotes, flashcards, and searchable chunks.
Your Mines compound
Review new Digs, save Gold, ask questions, build a knowledge library that grows more useful over time — and share the best of it at the Hearth.
X Accounts
Follow the account. Skip the feed.
Pick the X accounts you actually care about and Homestake pans them for you — a summary of everything they’ve said plus their latest posts, refreshed through the day. No algorithm deciding what you see. No doomscroll pulling you in.
Get an account’s whole value in minutes instead of parsing a feed, and save any post or summary as Gold to keep and share. 5 accounts included.
Strong Marriage
@strongmarriage5 · 60 posts panned
A week on daily habits that hold marriages together
- Ten-minute daily check-ins beat weekly “state of the union” talks
- Gratitude said out loud, not assumed — three examples this week
The couples who last aren’t the ones who never fight. They’re the ones who repair fast.
2h ago · 1,204 likes · saved as Gold
The Daily Pan
The world’s news in a couple of minutes, morning and evening. Free for everyone — and designed to end.
The Stamp Mill
Flashcards, math, typing, and memory practice built from what your family digs. Practice that comes from somewhere.
Our story
“My son started messaging me through the bug-report form. So we built him a Hearth.”
I built Homestake because I couldn’t keep up — hours of pending podcasts, newsletters I saved, video playlists unwatched. I didn’t need another place to store links. I needed something that would give me the insights.
I’m building Homestake with my son. It started as a tool for our family — the Hearth exists because he asked for it. Now we’re turning it into something for yours.
— Brian, Founder