Minimal Auto-Curated News Portal

Budget: ₹12500 - ₹37500

I want a clean, lightweight news website inspired by Jist News and Brut India. The core requirement is an engine that automatically pulls breaking stories from external sources while still letting my team publish our own pieces.

Automatic updates are a must, so the site has to fetch headlines continuously through RSS feeds, public and paid APIs, social-media endpoints, plus direct pulls from outlets such as Aaj Tak, India Today and News 18. At the same time, I need a simple editorial dashboard where we can step in, reorder or fine-tune those stories—essentially a combination of manual and automated curation.

Key deliverables • Minimalist, mobile-first front-end with fast load times • Aggregation module that parses RSS, hits relevant APIs, and ingests social content in real time • Backend editor to publish original articles, override or pin aggregated stories, and manage categories/tags • Basic SEO fields, share buttons, and a space for short video embeds (similar to Brut) • Clear code documentation so future contributors can extend the feed list or tweak the layout

A modern stack is preferred—WordPress with custom theme, headless CMS + React, or another solution you can justify—so long as it stays lean and easy to maintain.