About the project

NutsNews

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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

MVP

The 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 matters

A 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

1

RSS feeds

BBC, NPR, and other trusted RSS sources provide story candidates.

2

Cloudflare Worker

A scheduled Worker runs every hour and fetches the latest feed items.

3

AI filter

OpenAI filters out politics, war, money, crime, fear, and stressful topics.

4

AI summary

Accepted articles receive a short calm summary without copying the full article.

5

Supabase

Approved stories are stored in a Postgres database.

6

NutsNews website

The mobile website displays the latest uplifting stories.

Flow Diagram

Content Sources

BBC / NPR / RSS Feeds

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Automation Layer

Cloudflare Worker runs hourly

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AI Curation Layer

Filter, classify, summarize

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Data Layer

Supabase Postgres article queue

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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.