My SaaS was silently broken for 4 days because an AI My app was broken for four weeks and I didn't notice. So I got rid of the API.

On June 14th, the weekly brief feature of my product died. No crash, no alert, nothing in my inbox. It just quietly stopped producing anything new, and the dashboard kept showing the last good brief like everything was fine.

I found out four weeks later.

Some context

I run brevio.news alone. It started as a personal itch: I had hundreds of YouTube videos saved for "later", newsletters I never opened, articles piling up. I wanted something that reads all of it and gives me back a short editorial brief every morning, like a tiny Economist built from my own watchlist. No sponsored content, no recommendation feed.

Today it watches 475+ sources (YouTube, RSS, academic feeds, newsletters) across 7 themes, and publishes a brief every morning at 9:00 in 5 languages. It went through the classic solo builder phases: a CrewAI prototype, then n8n, then a real codebase.