Briefly is a Tiktok-like newsletter feed reader.
How does it work
- It scans my inbox for newsletter issues and parses the article links.
- I use ETLs to ingest cleaned data in a database (clean URL, enrich with metadata such as the Open Graph image, etc.)
- Build a feed based on the popularity of the article (from how many newsletters was it part of) and recency using exponential scoring.
I built a Tiktok-like feed to swipe through the articles to improve the discovery experience.
Interesting projects with a strong Data engineering component. I loved using Polars instead of panda for once.