Former investigative reporter turned developer. I built a simple breaking-news monitor because tracking events across platforms is a mess now that Twitter’s unreliable.
Bluesky is the backbone (a fraction of twitter, but still lots of journalists and OSINT folks), plus RSS, Telegram, Reddit, YouTube and Mastodon. Everything is one chronological feed with no algorithm, clear source labels, and lightweight activity detection when a region spikes above baseline (frequency math, not LLMs).
But we do have a (hopefully non-obtrusive) AI-generated recent/post summary.
Been building for a while, figured I'd post in light of today's events. Can't promise it will survive or is good, any feedback appreciated.
Built with Next.js 15 + TypeScript + Tailwind on Vercel. Real coded + supervised vibe coded. Free, no login, signups, ect
https://pulse-osint.vercel.app/
One thing I'd want to know though: can I pick specific topics or regions to follow, or is it everything at once?
And with 475 sources, how do you handle reliability filtering? Even trusted outlets get it wrong on breaking news, and Telegram channels are basically the wild west. Do you do any credibility scoring or is it on the reader to figure out what's legit?