---
title: "Deploy rundown"
description: "AI-powered RSS reader that helps you read less and learn more"
category: "AI/ML"
url: https://railway.com/deploy/rundown-1
---

# Deploy rundown

AI-powered RSS reader that helps you read less and learn more

**[Deploy rundown on Railway](https://railway.com/template/rundown-1)**

- **Creator:** sbox
- **Category:** AI/ML
- **Total deploys:** 15

## Template content

### Crawl

- **Source:** howyi/rundown

### App

- **Source:** howyi/rundown
- **Public domain:** Yes

### Boostrap

- **Source:** howyi/rundown

### Postgres https://devicons.railway.app/i/postgresql.svg

- **Image:** ghcr.io/railwayapp-templates/postgres-ssl:16

## Documentation

# Deploy and Host rundown on Railway

**rundown** is an AI-powered RSS reader that monitors your subscribed feeds, automatically summarizes new or updated articles using OpenAI, and sends notifications to Discord. Each user can customize the summary language and length, enabling efficient information consumption without reading every article in full.

## About Hosting rundown

Hosting **rundown** on Railway involves deploying multiple services working together: a Next.js frontend with BFF, a BullMQ worker for background jobs, Redis for queue management, PostgreSQL for persistent storage, and a Bootstrap service for post-deployment tasks like running migrations and registering cron jobs. With Railway’s template feature, you can spin up the entire stack in minutes—just provide your OpenAI API key.

## Common Use Cases

* Summarize niche RSS feeds to gather specific information
* Monitor industry news and deliver summaries to a team’s Discord channel
* Build a personal knowledge feed with AI summaries in your preferred language and length, plus optional custom instructions

## Dependencies for rundown Hosting

* OpenAI API key (required, for AI summarization)
* Discord Webhook URL (optional, for notifications)

### Deployment Dependencies

* [GitHub Repository](https://github.com/howyi/rundown)
* Railway Template (this page)

### Setup Instructions

Require: Crawl service set to cron every 15 minutes.

When deploying from the Railway template, you must set your **OpenAI API key** during deployment:

1. Open the **\[Bootstrap]** service and click **\[Configure]**
2. Enter your key in the `OPENAI_API_KEY` field
3. Deploy, and your instance will be ready to use

For implementation details, see the source code → [GitHub](https://github.com/howyi/rundown)

## Why Deploy rundown on Railway?

Railway is a singular platform to deploy your infrastructure stack. Railway will host your infrastructure so you don't have to deal with configuration, while allowing you to vertically and horizontally scale it.

By deploying rundown on Railway, you are one step closer to supporting a complete full-stack application with minimal burden. Host your servers, databases, AI agents, and more on Railway.

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