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Briefly60

The news, in sixty words

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Briefly60 reads the day's newspapers and returns each story in exactly sixty words. No preamble, no padding, no burying the fact you came for. A clickbait score sits beside every headline, so you know whether the framing is doing work the reporting cannot. Read it, hear it, or take it on Telegram.

Briefly60 news platform
Role
Creator
Year
2024
Status
Live
Focus
AI · Media

Bangladeshi news is abundant and exhausting. Briefly60 reads the popular newspapers so you don't have to, and returns each story in exactly sixty words, with a clickbait score attached, because knowing a headline is bait is half the information. Python jobs on GitHub Actions cron scrape and summarise on a schedule, and the result goes out over the web, over audio, and over Telegram.

Words per story
60Words per story
Languages with audio
2Languages with audio
Unattended ingestion
cronUnattended ingestion

How a story gets here

An unattended pipeline, four stages deep

  1. 1

    Scrape

    Python collectors pull from popular Bangladeshi newspapers.

  2. 2

    Summarise

    Each story is reduced to a hard sixty-word limit.

  3. 3

    Score

    Headlines are rated for how far they oversell the story.

  4. 4

    Deliver

    Web, audio and Telegram, on a fixed cron cadence.

Features

What's in the feed

  1. 01

    Sixty words, no more

    A hard constraint on every summary. Long enough to inform, short enough to actually read on a commute.

  2. 02

    Clickbait scoring

    Each story carries a score for how much its headline oversells it. Media literacy as a UI element.

  3. 03

    Bilingual with audio

    Bengali and English, with playback so the news works while your hands are busy.

  4. 04

    Scheduled ingestion

    Python scrapers on GitHub Actions cron jobs pull and summarise on a fixed cadence, unattended.

  5. 05

    Interactive quizzes

    Turn the day's reading into a quick check on what actually stuck.

  6. 06

    Telegram delivery

    Summaries pushed to Telegram, meeting readers where they already are.