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:
Current Features
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:
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:
If you’re interested in open-source AI, media monitoring, or self-hosted software, I’d love to hear your thoughts. Contributions, suggestions, feature requests, and bug reports are all welcome.