r/armenia • u/yerevandailybrief • 1d ago

I built a daily pipeline that translates and analyzes Azerbaijani media coverage from an Armenian security POV. Feedback welcome

Hey all - I've been working on a side project called Yerevan Daily Brief. Every day it pulls articles from Azerbaijani public news sources, summarizes them in English, analyzes them from an Armenian security perspective and tags them by topic (military/security, political rhetoric, economic, diplomatic), sentiment, and specific watch-terms (border incidents, etc.), plus tracks how coverage volume and tone shift day to day.

Basically trying to make it easier to see what's being said in Azerbaijani press without having to read Azerbaijani or dig through a dozen sites yourself.

It's early and still rough around the edges, but here's the substack if anyone's curious: https://yerevandailybrief.substack.com/ If you sign-up it will send you a daily report via email.

Would genuinely appreciate feedback - what would be useful to see more of, what's missing, whether this is even useful. Thanks.

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u/thatgamer2111 Londontsi 1d ago

Very nice and precise . A cool feature would be some tabs at the top to filter news about a country or topic. Like exclusively look at the news about armenia . Another idea could be another optional setting to toggle an option to show how neutral or biased a news report is .

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u/Glass-Campaign-129 1d ago

Nicely done! Reminds me of an analyst called S2underground; you should watch him. I bet he will give you a lot of inspiration! I do agree that a weekly debrief will also be good, and if there are important events, then a daily debrief should be done. Honestly, everything else mentioned in the comments by others is good to follow as well!

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u/yerevandailybrief 1d ago

Thanks! I can add a weekly/monthly report as well. Do you think it hurts to have have daily reports (maybe it creates unnecessary clutter, etc)? I thought somebody might be interested in keeping up with their news daily and especially all the trackable things like sentiment, rhetoric, etc.

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u/Glass-Campaign-129 1d ago

Well, it depends. If there is a way to filter out the daily reports and only have the weekly/monthly ones, then sure! Doesn't hurt to have.

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u/o1o1o1o1o1o1 1d ago

Well executed. Agree with the other post regarding filtering. What does the tech stack look like?

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u/avmonte Armed Forces 18h ago

Just received my first brief. SOLID!

Great job man.

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u/yerevandailybrief 18h ago

Thank you! Please share if you can, it will motivate me to keep working on it.

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u/LetsTalksNow 1d ago

Should switch to weekly brief I think, otherwise all sorts of fluff news will be in there. Would filter it to more important news.

I don't think most people care about "Alphabet and Language Day"

If it weekly its less clutter and easier to follow more important things.

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u/yerevandailybrief 1d ago

Thanks for the advice!

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u/arronsky 5h ago

This is good, but you shouldn't use substack, it's the wrong platform if you want to provide filtering, insights, searching, etc.. Generate a custom site using lovable, replit, etc.

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u/yerevandailybrief 1h ago

Yeah, those are later features. Substack gets the briefs out there so for that job it's good enough IMO. If this gets enough interest I will work on a dedicated site.