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NewsFlow
Tech news, fetched, categorised and summarised without me.
n8nGemini APILLM APIsVercel
Staying current
- Dozens of sources, heavy overlap
- Most items irrelevant to any one reader
- Headlines written to be clicked
- ~30 minutes a day of skimming
- Most of it discarded
Now
- One dashboard, categorised
- Summary first, link only if it earns one
- Runs on a schedule, unattended
- Read in the time the skimming took
Three stages, no human in any of them
runs itselfneeds a person
- 01
Fetch
n8n, on a schedule, with retries
- 02
Categorise
browsable, not a chronological firehose
- 03
Summarise
Gemini condenses each item
- 04
Dashboard
the day's news, compressed
Why a workflow layer, not a cron job and a script
- Sources change constantly
- Adding or re-weighting one shouldn't be a deploy.
- Failure is normal
- Feeds go down and APIs rate-limit. Retry and error handling are built in, not reimplemented.
- It stays legible
- The pipeline reads as a diagram, which matters when you come back to it in three months.
Live at news-flow-liard.vercel.app.