To keep up with industry and tech news, the writer built a free-tier Google Cloud Run job pulling Google News RSS feeds. Gemini picks which articles match their criteria and triggers a summary email.
Result Runs inside Google Cloud's free tier
“Gemini is used for determining which articles to include and exclude from the email summary based on my predefined criteria. It works really well in being able to keep on top of specific industry/tech news I'm interested in.”
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The writer set up a container on Google Cloud Run, running within the free tier, to parse specifically configured Google News RSS feeds twice weekly and once a month for a monthly summary. Gemini is used to determine which articles to include or exclude from the resulting email based on their predefined criteria.
The writer says it works really well for keeping on top of the specific industry and tech news they care about.
Here are [articles from my RSS feeds]. Using these criteria: [list what you care about], decide which ones to include in my summary email and which to exclude, then draft the email.
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