Full disclousure, I’m posting this around because the site is gaining traction and is at a critical point. Right now my only source of income from it is donations via a small button on the FAQ page. I have enough users that I will need to scale up soon, but not enough to make the free optional donation model sustainable.
I hope to quickly surpass that point and continue the project without a subscription model. The notifications are particularly intensive in the current server situation.
You can find it [here](https://potustracker.lukewin.es/), it’s called POTUS Tracker. Visit the FAQ for details on bias and general info. The TL;DR of it is that I have very little input so my biases won’t show, but there are biases in the way the information is gathered and who it originates from.
I pull automatically from the President’s public schedule and [Congress.gov](http://congress.gov/) for bill summaries.
The executive orders are scraped live from the White House website and fed into GPT-4o-mini with a prompt to summarize them in 300 characters. The backend will also send mobile push notifications to users who have added the site to their home screen.
Trump signed an executive order designating the Houthis as a terror organization yesterday. POTUS Tracker send a notification to all subscribers with the AI summary minutes after his pen left the paper and before any major outlet.
The only exception to this will be when the President signs executive orders live on camera. It can not beat the media response time there and never will.
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If you start struggling with bandwidth/ server calls you may want to turn it to a once daily aggregate instead of live pulls. Outside of that hopefully you dont get nailed by your host with random fees or takedowns.
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Full disclousure, I’m posting this around because the site is gaining traction and is at a critical point. Right now my only source of income from it is donations via a small button on the FAQ page. I have enough users that I will need to scale up soon, but not enough to make the free optional donation model sustainable.
I hope to quickly surpass that point and continue the project without a subscription model. The notifications are particularly intensive in the current server situation.
You can find it [here](https://potustracker.lukewin.es/), it’s called POTUS Tracker. Visit the FAQ for details on bias and general info. The TL;DR of it is that I have very little input so my biases won’t show, but there are biases in the way the information is gathered and who it originates from.
I pull automatically from the President’s public schedule and [Congress.gov](http://congress.gov/) for bill summaries.
The executive orders are scraped live from the White House website and fed into GPT-4o-mini with a prompt to summarize them in 300 characters. The backend will also send mobile push notifications to users who have added the site to their home screen.
Trump signed an executive order designating the Houthis as a terror organization yesterday. POTUS Tracker send a notification to all subscribers with the AI summary minutes after his pen left the paper and before any major outlet.
The only exception to this will be when the President signs executive orders live on camera. It can not beat the media response time there and never will.
If you start struggling with bandwidth/ server calls you may want to turn it to a once daily aggregate instead of live pulls. Outside of that hopefully you dont get nailed by your host with random fees or takedowns.
Good, my mental health was too strong lately