NexBrief AI

Problem

Two people can read the news every day and end up with incompatible pictures of the same event. The cause is rarely invented facts — it is selection and framing. Which details lead, which are buried, which words are chosen. A reader seeing one outlet has no way to tell what was left out, and reading across the spectrum manually costs time nobody has.

• Framing differences are invisible when you only read one source
• Comparing outlets by hand is slow and most people will not do it
• Treating a summary as neutral does not make it neutral

Solution

Four tools built around one idea — that a reader is better served by seeing the disagreement than by being handed a verdict.

• Compare — enter any topic and get Left, Centre and Right perspectives side by side, along with what each one leaves out
• Daily News — a live feed from multiple newsrooms, refreshed every 60 seconds, with a credibility rating on every story
• Detect — paste a headline, claim or URL and get a credibility score, the red flags behind it, and steps to verify it yourself
• Ask anything — a general question box that is not restricted to news; science, history and economics all work

Source credibility

The part that does the most work is the least glamorous. Every outlet in the feed carries a credibility rating — High, Mostly High, Mixed or Low — synthesised from independent evaluators including Media Bias/Fact Check, Ad Fontes Media and NewsGuard, plus a stated bias position. Reuters and AP News sit at High · 95, Centre. The Hindu appears as High · 85, Centre / Slight Left.

• Ratings measure factual reporting, sourcing standards, editorial independence and correction practices
• Bias placement is shown explicitly rather than implied
• Each story carries a one-line characterisation of the outlet publishing it
• Every card links out to the original article so the reader can check it

Architecture

There is no traditional server. The front end is a React 18 and TypeScript application built with Vite, styled with Tailwind and shadcn/ui on Radix primitives, routed with React Router and fetching through TanStack Query. Everything behind it runs as serverless Deno functions on Supabase.

• chat — streaming AI with four modes: answer, compare, fact-check and detect. Accepts images as well as text
• news — merges 14 RSS feeds including Reuters, AP, BBC, The Times of India and The Hindu. No AI involved: the feed is real articles, unmodified
• translate — batch translation, chunked and parallelised for speed
• Google sign-in through Supabase Auth using PKCE, the correct flow for a public client
• Postgres with two tables and row-level security, so access rules live in the database rather than in application code
• A signup trigger creates the profile and starts the 14-day trial automatically — no app-side bookkeeping to get wrong

Decisions worth defending

A few choices in this build are the kind that only look obvious afterwards.

• Gemini is called through its OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so changing model provider is a URL change rather than a rewrite
• Keeping AI out of the news function entirely means the feed cannot hallucinate a headline — credibility ratings attach to articles that genuinely exist
• Row-level security means a bug in the front end cannot leak another user's data
• Serverless throughout: nothing to patch, nothing to keep running at 3am

The hard part

The difficult questions here are editorial, not technical. What counts as the Centre, and centre of what — India's political spectrum or America's? How do you represent a position accurately without adopting it or caricaturing it? When two credible outlets disagree on a fact rather than a framing, what does the neutral summary say? A rating system that places outlets on a spectrum is itself making a claim, which is why NexBrief cites external evaluators rather than inventing its own scores.

Shipped as a product

This is where the project stops being a demo. It has real accounts, real billing tiers and a real trial — the unglamorous work most side projects skip.

• Google OAuth sign-in with a 14-day trial, no card required
• Basic at ₹250/month and Pro at ₹340/month, with annual pricing
• Language selector and a light/dark theme toggle
• Instructions and FAQ written for users who have never seen the product

Status

Live at newz.srbros.in and in active development. Compare, Daily News, Detect and the ask-anything box all work today. Saved research is announced in-product as coming soon, and subscription activation is currently handled manually rather than through an automated payment flow.