Started this project for fun after making a simple observation: I was spending a lot of time and energy trying to keep up with the fast evolving world of AI, while feeling bad whenever I missed something. It was a kind of FoMO, plus the fear of getting the information too late. That gave me the idea to build a news aggregator that processes many RSS feeds, extracts keywords from articles, and displays them in a word cloud to highlight the topics that appear the most.
I'd say I'm only at 30% of development. For now, the sources are only related to AI, but I'd like to add other topics I'm interested in like Cyber and Crypto (I'm also open to other suggestions!)
Also, I'd like to add other types of sources, like X, Reddit, YouTube, etc...
Finally, I'd like to implement TL;DRs for each article, "Why is it trending" for each hot keyword, and maybe even a newsletter, I'm trying to figure out if people are interested.
As a bad web developer, I used AI a lot to code the project, you can tell the frontend looks very AI-made, but it's not like I'm selling anything.
The frontend is React, with an Express backend, I can detail the stack if you're interested!
The site is online here: https://trendcloud.io (hope the name checks out haha)
I'm also thinking about a way to cover the costs of the website, nothing crazy but it's at least a good hundred euros a year minimum. Open to suggestions on that! I added a Buy Me a Coffee button, let's see how that goes.
Hope at least someone else finds this useful, would love to have your feedback and answer your questions!
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