{"slug": "show-hn-trendradar-for-horizon-scanning-and-foresight", "title": "Show HN: Trendradar for Horizon Scanning and Foresight", "summary": "Trendradar released an updated version of its horizon-scanning trend radar that now covers trends in general rather than only technological trends, splitting each trend into granular signals backed by three or more individual sources. The tool is aimed at giving companies a data-driven environmental scan as a basis for drawing conclusions about a market's direction, though the developers note remaining issues with self-reporting and PR sources that overrepresent trends. They plan to add more diverse sources, especially patents and GitHub, and said AI has made web scraping cheaper but total costs have risen due to complexity and content volume.", "body_md": "This is an update to our old Trendradar ([https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332076](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45332076))\n\n# What changed * This trend radar focuses on trends in general (not only technological trends as the previous ones) * This trend radar splits individual trends into granular signals, and each signal is based one 3 or more individual sources.\n\nThe idea is to provide companies a data-driven scan of the environment (horizon scanning) as a basis. With this basis, they can derive conclusions about the direction of a market.\n\nAlthough V2, there are still a few issues to fix, especially around self-reporting & PR sources which tend to overrepresent trends. Furthermore, we are planning on expanding it to include a more diverse set of sources (especially patents & GitHub), to catch changes even earlier.\n\nIronically, AI has made web scraping per se cheaper, but overall it seems that the total costs (as a consequence of complexity and the sheer number of content) have increased.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713580](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49713580)\n\nPoints: 2\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trendradar-for-horizon-scanning-and-foresight", "canonical_source": "https://technologieradar.tryresearchly.com", "published_at": "2026-09-15 14:59:40+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 15:21:42.378526+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-products"], "entities": ["Trendradar", "GitHub"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trendradar-for-horizon-scanning-and-foresight", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trendradar-for-horizon-scanning-and-foresight.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trendradar-for-horizon-scanning-and-foresight.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-trendradar-for-horizon-scanning-and-foresight.jsonld"}}