"Take the Well-Maintained Road Over Risky Shortcuts": Ditching Web Scraping for an AI App Powered by Official RSS & Gemini (Lessons from Logistics)

Design Philosophy and Practical Solutions of "Puoppo," an Automated AI Trend Analysis System Built with RSS × Gemini 2.5 Flash

GitHub Repository: tosane932 / puoppo_app

1. Introduction

An active truck driver in Japan self-studying Python, leveraging logistics domain knowledge to transition into a Web Engineer.

In this article, I share the design philosophy and technical choices behind "Puoppo," an automated AI trend analysis system I built during my 42nd hour of studying Python (with no IT background or prior development experience).