A beach-bleached, slightly-too-honest feed of Cannes Lions — shipped in a weekend.

The unique challenge

• Cannes Lions generates a firehose of self-congratulatory content every June.
• Wanted a satirical, editorial counter-feed with the tone of an industry insider crossed with a beach-town gossip column.
• Shipping window: one weekend before the festival opened.

The approach

• Hourly pg_cron job hits a public webhook route that fetches a curated set of RSS/news sources.
• Each item runs through Lovable AI with a tightly-scoped voice prompt — editorial pass happens in the DB, not the client.
• Front-end is one scrolling column so voice does the heavy lifting.

The outcome

• Picked up by industry insiders during Cannes week with zero paid distribution.
• The site is the joke and the archive.

The stack

Highlighted = the pieces beyond the standard Lovable stack.

Prompts used

The actual seed prompts.

Copy them. Adapt them. Ship faster.

Rewrite this industry news item as a Spraycannes dispatch. Rules: (1) never punch down at creators, only at systems; (2) one sharp opinion per post; (3) end with a single-sentence question the reader can't un-see; (4) never exceed 90 words.

You have 20 news items from the last hour. Pick the 3 most Spraycannes-worthy — the ones with the widest gap between industry PR and reality. Explain the gap in one line each.