PendelPolitik
A daily plain-language briefing for working Germans that translates coalition committee decisions into 'what this changes for your job, taxes, sick pay, and benefits today' — readable on a tram ride.
Working Germans (Angestellte, Freelancer, Minijobber) who don't follow Bundestag closely but feel policy shifting around them
- Daily 3-minute 'Was ändert sich?' digest of new coalition and Bundestag decisions, in plain German
- Profile-based impact calculator: pick your job type (Vollzeit, befristet, Minijob, selbständig) to see exactly what's affected
- Sick-pay and Arbeitsrecht tracker monitoring Krankschreibung, Befristung, and Bürgergeld changes in one feed
- 'Versus' comparison view showing what the SPD, Union, and Linke each proposed vs. what actually passed
The current Koalitionsausschuss has just pushed befristete Verträge expansion and ended telefonische Krankschreibung — Spiegel reports that even the SPD's own left wing is calling it 'Klassenkampf von oben', and most working Germans only hear about these changes weeks later.
Koalitionsausschuss reforms (befristete Verträge, Ende telefonische Krankschreibung) are heavily covered by SZ, Tagesschau and ZEIT with explicit 'was das für Arbeitnehmer bedeutet' framing — shows real appetite for impact-focused translation, but incumbent newsrooms already serve most of it.Verschärfte Krankschreibung, Steuern runter, mehr Befristungen ↗Schwarz-rote Reformen: Das soll sich bei der Krankschreibung ändern ↗
Closest analogs (DW Berlin Briefing, Politico Berlin Bulletin, Bundestag's 6 official newsletters, Kuppelkucker) either target English-speaking insiders, are weekly, are procedural/insider-focused, or aimed at children — no daily German-language impact briefing for employed adults exists.Berlin Bulletin - POLITICO ↗
German readers have notoriously low willingness to pay for digital news (Spiegel+ and ZEIT+ still growth-constrained); a niche political explainer targeting people who 'don't follow Bundestag closely' is the hardest segment to convert to a paid sub.Koalitionsausschuss: Das sind die Kernpunkte des Reformpakets ↗
Coalition politics is continuous in Germany; the Koalitionsausschuss meets repeatedly each legislative period, and tax/labor/sick-pay rule changes recur every coalition cycle, giving a perpetual content pipeline.
Trivially buildable with an LLM over public Bundestag, Bundesregierung and news APIs; the hard part is editorial voice, trust and accuracy — but the translation-to-'what changes for you' step is a single-prompt job.