Archived2026 · Solo Builder· Started(First Commit date) 2026-03-30

Easy Trend Explainer

Daily-refresh service that has AI break down today's trends into four categories.

Screenshots

Home - today's trending keyword ranking plus a channel-based knowledge feed on one screen
Explorer - narrow the feed by topic chips, switch between knowledge, keyword, and date views
Search - popular keyword chips give the empty state a first move
My page - bookmarks, reading history, and settings in one place
Settings - font size, theme, and storage controls tuned for a tool people open daily
Login screen - the line "you can read freely without signing in" preserves the no-signup entry

Setup

Problem: Even when you see a trending keyword, "why is this trending?" is a separate search. For someone who wants the context quickly, a one-line summary isn't enough; a long article is too heavy.
Context: A lightweight curation experiment - auto-generated daily, with bookmarks and a read history.
Hypothesis: Break a keyword into four categories (overview, background, impact, related) and the "why is this trending?" lands within five minutes.

What I did: Daily auto-collection of trends plus the AI generation pipeline for per-category explanations
Bookmark / read-history / per-card sharing UI
Product decisions: No-signup entry - matches the identity of a light tool you come back to every day
Uniform article length - consistency is what builds the habit of checking it daily
QA considerations: Daily auto-generation - guard the regression so one failure can't spread across several days (invisible piled-up regression)
Schema validation at each generation step on the four categories (overview, background, impact, related) so malformed output never reaches the reader
On a collect/generate pipeline failure, a fallback keeps at least the prior day's state
If the daily cron fails silently the content goes stale, so there's a way to detect and surface that failure
Uniform article length is actually enforced on every generation so the consistent "check it daily" rhythm doesn't break
The AI explanation renders "why is this trending?" for the keyword without drifting from fact (explanation accuracy)
The no-signup entry is preserved while bookmarks and read history stay consistent with user state even as content is swapped out daily

Metrics: The deployment has been taken down. Traffic and return-visit numbers were never measured while it ran, and there is no reachable address for it now.