Daily Trivia Email Bot
April 2025
A daily trivia email in Korean, written by GPT-5 and shaped to read in under a minute. The interface is the inbox, so there is nothing to open.
- Role
- Sole designer and engineer
- Built with
- Python
- OpenAI
- GitHub Actions
- PythonAnywhere
A small bot that emails a short piece of trivia to its subscribers every morning. There is no app and no website. It lands in your inbox and is gone again in under a minute.
Where it started
The idea was a daily habit that teaches something without demanding attention all day. An email felt right, because it arrives on its own and asks for nothing back. It goes out to a handful of family and friends, and I'm one of them.
It is written in Korean, in the polite register I'd use with family, since that is who reads it. Each one is a single short paragraph that opens on a question and sets the fact down plainly.
How it's built
- A single Python script, run each morning by a scheduled task on PythonAnywhere.
- GPT-5 writes the paragraph, and the mail goes out over SMTP as plain text.
- A GitHub Action deploys the latest code on every push to
main.
One theme a day
There is one topic pool per weekday, fifteen topics deep. Monday is science, Tuesday history, Wednesday art, Thursday technology, Friday culture, Saturday nature and Sunday space. The theme comes back every week and the subject rarely does. The subject line is one of ten, picked at random, and everyone is on BCC so nobody sees the rest of the list.