Lumen News Bot
An AI-powered Telegram bot that curates and delivers personalized news briefings. Lumen aggregates content from multiple sources and surfaces what matters most to each user — making it easy to stay informed without the noise.
What it does
- Curates a personalized news briefing from multiple sources and delivers it daily via Telegram
- Filters by topics and sources configured in user preferences — no irrelevant content, no algorithm
- Summarizes each article with Claude so the briefing is scannable in under five minutes
- Sends on a scheduled cadence without requiring an app to open or a feed to scroll
Why it matters
- Eliminates 30–45 minutes of daily news scanning — the brief is scannable in under 5 minutes
- Topics and sources are user-configured, not algorithmically ranked — no engagement optimization, no filter bubble
- Delivered to Telegram on schedule — zero apps to open, zero feeds to scroll
Architecture
- n8n cron workflow triggers on schedule — fetches articles from RSS feeds and web sources
- Claude evaluates each article against the user's topic preferences and writes a concise summary
- Notion stores user preferences and acts as the configuration layer for each subscriber
- Telegram Bot API delivers the formatted briefing directly to the user's chat
Philosophy
- Information diet by design — you get what you chose, not what's trending
- Delivered where you already are, not another platform to check
- Built for staying sharp without the scroll
- Telegram
- Claude
- REST API
- n8n
- Notion