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Radar – Open Source Media Intelligence
Open-source intelligence for news & social monitoring
Open-source media intelligence & social listening — a self-hostable alternative to Talkwalker/Brandwatch, built on free data sources and Claude AI. - Scognamiglio1969/radar-intelligence
👋 Hi everyone! I’m Massimo, the creator of Radar.
I started building Radar after noticing that most media intelligence and social listening platforms are designed for large organizations and often come with pricing that’s out of reach for individuals, researchers, journalists, nonprofits, and small teams.
My goal was to create something different: an open-source, self-hosted platform that brings together news, social media, RSS feeds, and other public sources into a single place, with AI helping turn large amounts of information into clear summaries and actionable insights.
Radar is still evolving, and this launch is just the beginning. I’m sharing it early because I’d love to build it together with the community.
I’d really appreciate your feedback:
* Which features would make Radar most useful for your workflow?
* Which data sources or integrations would you like to see next?
* What would stop you from using it today?
Thanks for checking it out, and I’m looking forward to hearing your thoughts!
Finally gave Radar a spin and was surprised how clean the self-host setup was, took maybe ten minutes before I was pulling mentions. The Claude-powered sentiment summaries actually feel useful instead of generic.
The fact that it pulls from free sources and still surfaces useful sentiment patterns is genuinely impressive, was not expecting that level of accuracy without a paid API.
How does it compare to something like Brandwatch in terms of source coverage, especially for niche or non-English markets?
self-hosting an OSINT tool free of platform lock-in is a real gap for smaller teams. the part I'd worry about for a project like this, more than the AI summarization layer, is the scraping itself - Reddit and Twitter/X have both tightened ToS enforcement and rate limits against unofficial scrapers over the past couple years. is Radar pulling from official APIs where they exist (even rate-limited free tiers) or scraping HTML/RSS directly, and has anyone actually gotten rate-limited or blocked running this for real?
Really like how clean the repo layout is, makes it obvious where the scraping, NLP, and dashboard layers each live without digging around.
Self-hosting a Talkwalker alternative is exactly what I needed, and Radar's setup was way smoother than I expected. The Claude integration for sentiment analysis feels surprisingly sharp for a free stack.
self-hosted social listening sounds great, especially the Claude integration for sentiment analysis. curious how it handles the noise from free data sources though.
Finally gave Radar a spin on my own server and the setup was surprisingly painless. Really liked how it pulls from free sources without locking the good stuff behind a paywall.
Finally tried Radar over the weekend and the self-host setup was smoother than I expected, only hit one dependency snag. The Claude-powered sentiment summaries on Reddit threads actually felt useful, not just generic.
About Radar – Open Source Media Intelligence on Product Hunt
“ Open-source intelligence for news & social monitoring”
Radar – Open Source Media Intelligence was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 12 upvotes and 19 comments, placing #34 on the daily leaderboard. Open-source media intelligence & social listening — a self-hostable alternative to Talkwalker/Brandwatch, built on free data sources and Claude AI. - Scognamiglio1969/radar-intelligence
Radar – Open Source Media Intelligence was featured in Social Media (89.2k followers), Analytics (172.8k followers), Artificial Intelligence (473.8k followers) and GitHub (41.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 171.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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