About TideNow

TideNow is a real-time aggregator of 60+ public trending feeds — Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, Apple Music, BBC, Reuters, AP, plus Chinese sources like Weibo, Zhihu, Bilibili, and 36kr.

Why it exists

I used to keep about 8 browser tabs open every morning to track what was happening across HN, Reddit, BBC, Reuters, Weibo, Zhihu, GitHub Trending, and Product Hunt. The same story often appeared in 2–3 of them at once, but the framing was always different — what HN called a "leaked memo" Weibo treated as a strategic announcement. Triangulating which version was closest to the truth ate half my coffee. TideNow exists so I don't have to do that ritual anymore.

What makes it different

The cross-source "Trending" panel at the top isn't just a list — it runs union-find clustering with a stemmer over titles, so the same story appearing on Reuters and Weibo in the same window shows up as one cluster with both source badges. You can tell at a glance whether something is a genuine cross-cultural moment (rare) or just one regional outlet's editorial pick.

The Compose tool at /compose lets you pick 1–5 trending items, generate a draft with your own AI key (no SaaS markup), edit in a split-pane markdown editor, and export a publish-ready .md file. The published editorial pieces live at /posts.

Built with

• Next.js 16 (App Router, Turbopack)
• Tailwind CSS v4
• next-intl for English / 简体中文
• better-sqlite3 for the source cache and AI summary memoisation
• Deployed on Vercel, DNS on Cloudflare

It's open source

The full source is on GitHub under MIT: github.com/Alex92908/tidenow-web. Pull requests welcome — especially new sources, scraper fixes when upstream APIs rotate, and translation improvements.

Who

Built by Alex, an independent developer based in China. Side project, evenings and weekends. Reach me at alex.chu0206@gmail.com or join the Discord: discord.gg/chjPuC963T.