I Built an AI-Powered News Digest That Runs Itself for $5/Month — Here's How

A developer built 'Le Bref,' a self-running AI news digest that scrapes 25+ RSS feeds twice daily, uses Claude AI to select and summarize top stories into three tiers of depth, and stores them in a searchable Supabase archive. The architecture uses Python cron jobs on Railway, Claude API for summarization, Supabase for storage, and Next.js on Vercel for the frontend—all on free or near-free tiers. By pre-generating all content at cron time instead of on user visits, the total running cost stays around $5–10/month.