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Introducing Radar: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted AI Media Intelligence Platform

Massimo Scognamiglio — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:05:34 +0000

Over the past few months I’ve been building Radar, an open-source media intelligence and social listening platform that anyone can self-host.

The project started with a simple observation: most media monitoring platforms are incredibly powerful—but they’re also expensive, closed, and often lock users into proprietary AI services.

I wanted to explore a different approach.

What is Radar?

Radar is a self-hostable platform for monitoring news and public media sources using AI.

Instead of relying on proprietary datasets, it works with free public RSS and Atom feeds, allowing anyone to build their own monitoring environment.

One of the core design decisions is that Radar is AI-agnostic.

Rather than forcing a single provider, you can choose between:

Anthropic Claude
OpenAI
Grok

Current Features

📰 News aggregation from free RSS and Atom feeds
🤖 AI-powered summaries
😊 Sentiment analysis
🔍 Keyword and topic monitoring
📊 Searchable dashboard
🏠 Self-hosted deployment
🔓 Fully open source

Why Build Another Media Intelligence Tool?

Enterprise platforms such as Talkwalker and Brandwatch are excellent products, but they aren’t accessible to everyone.

Radar is aimed at:

developers
startups
journalists
researchers
agencies
open-source enthusiasts

The goal isn’t to replicate every enterprise feature, but to build a transparent, extensible, and self-hosted alternative that anyone can inspect, modify, and improve.

Looking for Feedback

The project is still under active development, and I’d really appreciate feedback on:

architecture
user experience
deployment
scalability
AI abstraction
features that would make the platform more useful

If you’re interested in open-source AI, media monitoring, or self-hosted software, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

GitHub

Demo

Contributions, suggestions, feature requests, and bug reports are all welcome.

From Art to Open Source AI

Massimo Scognamiglio — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 15:05:59 +0000

👋 Hi everyone!

I’m Massimo, an artist, creative technologist, and one of the early web pioneers from Italy.

I’ve always enjoyed building things that sit at the intersection of creativity, design, and technology. Lately, that has meant focusing on open-source AI tools and self-hosted software that anyone can use and improve.

My latest project is Radar, an open-source AI-powered social listening platform built around the idea that powerful analytics shouldn’t be locked behind expensive enterprise subscriptions. It’s still evolving, and I’m looking forward to learning from the community, sharing progress, and getting honest feedback.

Excited to connect with fellow builders, exchange ideas, and discover what everyone is working on.

Happy coding! 🚀

Scognamiglio1969 / radar-intelligence

Open-source media intelligence & social listening — a self-hostable alternative to Talkwalker/Brandwatch, built on free data sources and Claude AI.

Radar

Open-source media intelligence & social listening — an alternative to enterprise platforms like Talkwalker or Brandwatch, built on free data sources and Claude AI Self-hostable, bring-your-own-keys, runs locally with zero configuration.

The user interface and AI outputs are in English. Full internationalization (i18n) for additional languages is on the roadmap and contributions are very welcome.

Why Radar

Enterprise listening tools cost thousands per month. Radar gives a single person or a small team the same core workflow — listen, analyze, decide, create — using public data sources and the Claude API, for the price of an API key (or nothing at all if you just want to collect data).

9 free sources out of the box: worldwide news via GDELT (100k+ outlets, 65+ languages) and Google News, plus Bluesky, Mastodon, Hacker News, Telegram, RSS — and Reddit / YouTube with a free API key.
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