News intelligence built for people who can't miss a story.
PulseAggregator monitors 200+ news sources around the clock — Reuters, BBC, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, and more — and surfaces the stories that matter to you, filtered by keyword, category, and source.
Why we built this
Media monitoring tools like Meltwater charge upwards of $400/month for features that are fundamentally simple: check a list of news sites, filter by keyword, send an email when something matches.
We built PulseAggregator to be the tool we wished existed — fast, transparent, fairly priced, and actually focused on the reading experience.
What we monitor
Meet the Engineer
PulseAggregator was built by a backend engineer who specialises in data pipelines, scraping infrastructure, and automation at scale.
Specialised in building robust data collection systems that handle millions of requests reliably. Expert in multi-tier RSS pipelines, anti-bot countermeasures, and automating complex workflows end-to-end. Built PulseAggregator from scratch — every scraper, every scheduler, every line of the FastAPI backend and Next.js dashboard.
- —200+ RSS sources monitored
- —4-tier scraping pipeline
- —SHA-256 deduplication
- —Full-text search (PostgreSQL)
- —Playwright anti-blocking
- —Hourly automated crawls
- —APScheduler workflows
- —Keyword alert delivery
- —Weekly digest emails
- —ETL pipelines
- —Error recovery systems
- —Monitoring & alerts
- —FastAPI & REST APIs
- —PostgreSQL optimisation
- —JWT & API key auth
- —Docker & Railway
- —Rate limiting & security
- —Database design