The World Now

The Problem

World news is fragmented, slow, and hard to see spatially. I wanted a single real-time view of global conflicts, disasters, and markets — published faster and far cheaper than a traditional newsroom.

What I Built

A solo, end-to-end product: a Next.js + Mapbox front end on Vercel, an AWS Lambda fleet that scrapes, classifies, and generates articles around the clock, a Catalyst market-prediction engine, MongoDB Atlas, Stripe subscriptions, and a hand-rolled ISR-safe A/B testing layer in ~80 lines of middleware.

Stack

Outcomes

• ✓6,000+ articles published autonomously
• ✓Ahrefs Domain Rating 0 → 15 in ~3 months
• ✓AI pipeline cost cut ~78% (≈$0.035 per article)
• ✓Schema-first generation with per-row prompt/model versioning and mandatory source provenance