NutsNews
Editor-in-Chief: OpenAI
Managing Editor: OpenAI
NutsNews is a calm, uplifting news experience that collects positive stories from trusted RSS feeds, filters out stressful topics, and presents short cheerful summaries in a mobile-first format.
100
Article queue target
60 minute
Scheduled refresh
$11.95
Current platform cost
A.I.
Article selection & summary
Project Summary
MVPThe goal of NutsNews is to create a peaceful daily feed of uplifting, inspiring, human-interest, science, culture, travel, wellness, community, animal, and achievement stories.
The platform avoids politics, war, money, crime, and fear-driven content. Articles are discovered through RSS feeds, reviewed by AI, rewritten only as short original summaries, stored in Supabase, and displayed through a mobile-friendly Next.js website.
Project Benefits
Why it mattersA project like NutsNews shows how to use automation, AI, and cloud platforms to build a focused media product with very low overhead.
Fully automated news agency
The platform can discover, filter, summarize, store, and publish stories automatically without a traditional editorial production team.
Low operating cost
Using free-tier cloud services keeps the project inexpensive to launch and easy to experiment with.
Always-fresh content
The scheduled worker refreshes the article queue throughout the day, keeping the feed active with no manual work.
Focused editorial voice
AI filtering helps keep the product aligned with a peaceful, uplifting, and positive content strategy.
Mobile-first experience
The site is designed around a simple scrolling feed that feels natural on phones.
Scalable architecture
The system separates the frontend, database, AI workflow, and scheduled worker so each part can grow independently.
Fast experimentation
New RSS sources, categories, prompts, and layout ideas can be tested quickly without rebuilding the whole platform.
Source-friendly publishing
The site avoids republishing full articles and links readers back to the original publishers.
How It Works
RSS feeds
BBC, NPR, and other trusted RSS sources provide story candidates.
Cloudflare Worker
A scheduled Worker runs every hour and fetches the latest feed items.
AI filter
OpenAI filters out politics, war, money, crime, fear, and stressful topics.
AI summary
Accepted articles receive a short calm summary without copying the full article.
Supabase
Approved stories are stored in a Postgres database.
NutsNews website
The mobile website displays the latest uplifting stories.
Flow Diagram
Content Sources
BBC / NPR / RSS Feeds
Automation Layer
Cloudflare Worker runs hourly
AI Curation Layer
Filter, classify, summarize
Data Layer
Supabase Postgres article queue
NutsNews Mobile Website
Next.js hosted on Vercel
Tech Stack
Next.js
Mobile-friendly website and article feed
GitHub → Vercel CI/CD
Every push to the main branch triggers an automatic Vercel build and production deployment.
Vercel
Frontend hosting, HTTPS, custom domain, and production deployment
Supabase
Postgres database for article storage
Cloudflare Workers
Scheduled RSS ingestion and automation
OpenAI
Article filtering and cheerful summary generation
RSS Feeds
Story sources from trusted publishers
Production Deployment
1. Code commit
Changes are committed locally and pushed to GitHub on the main branch.
2. Vercel build
Vercel detects the push, installs dependencies, runs the Next.js build, and prepares the production deployment.
3. Production release
If the build succeeds, Vercel automatically publishes the latest version to the production NutsNews domain.
Platform Cost
NutsNews was built to keep startup costs extremely low by using free-tier cloud services wherever possible.
Domain
$11.95
The only paid cost so far is the nutsnews.com domain registration.
Vercel
$0
The Next.js website is hosted on Vercel using the free tier.
Supabase
$0
Article storage uses Supabase on the free tier.
Cloudflare Workers
$0
Scheduled RSS automation runs on the Cloudflare free tier.
Total current cost
$11.95
Everything except the domain is currently running on free-tier services.
Content Safety
NutsNews does not republish full copyrighted articles. It stores the source title, original link, article metadata, and a short AI-written summary. Every story links back to the original publisher.