From Art to Open Source AI

Massimo, an Italian artist and creative technologist, built Radar, an open-source AI-powered social listening platform that serves as an alternative to expensive enterprise tools like Talkwalker and Brandwatch. The self-hostable platform uses Claude AI and free data sources to provide core listening, analysis, and decision-making workflows for the cost of an API key.

👋 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 🚀 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. 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 .