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Social listening across 12 communities when Brand24 and Mention already dominate.
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I built Horizon because I was drowning in information overflow. I follow dozens of RSS feeds, subreddits, GitHub users, and, of course, HN itself. I found myself spends hours "doomscrolling" just to find the 3-4 things that actually mattered to my work and interests.
Horizon is a personal intelligence agent that automates this. It doesn't just aggregate; it filters and enriches.
How it works:
Scrape: It pulls from GitHub (releases/events), Hacker News, Reddit, and any RSS feed. Score: It uses LLMs (Claude, GPT-4, Gemini, or DeepSeek via OpenAI-compatible APIs) to score content based on your specific interests/criteria. Enrich: For high-scoring items, it performs a web search to add context that may not be in the original snippet. Summarize: It generates a clean, daily Markdown report and optionally deploys it to a static site (GitHub Pages).
Social listening across 12 communities when Brand24 and Mention already dominate.
HN summary bot that dies when Gemini free tier expires.
Daily markdown reports suggest build ideas based on trending tech signals.
F5Bot but it learns your signal vs keyword matching noise.
Finally a centralized feed for broken updates that beats waiting for r/sysadmin megathreads.
Pick sources, select from 135+ topics, and get a short, Gemini-powered summary delivered on your schedule — the workflow is exactly what you'd expect from a focused digest. The implementation choices (trafilatura scraping, small services on k8s, gemini-3 for summaries) are pragmatic and show real engineering; what I'd like to see next is clearer scoring/ranking methodology and more source coverage before it unseats Mailbrew or daily.dev.