Plainradar
All the world's news, searched live for you and your agents
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Details
- External ID
- 1276979
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Plainradar
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.33
- Tags
- News
Description
Live search of everything published, from leading outlets to niche blogs, in 45 languages. Every search reads the news right then, so results are hours old, not days. Track topics or connect an AI agent over MCP.
Enrichment
- Niche
- personalized news and media aggregators
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Search & retrieval
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- live news search api for ai agents
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Real-time indexing and search of virtually all global news in 45 languages with hour-old freshness requires massive crawling infrastructure, dedicated proxy networks, and distributed real-time search indexing.
What it would actually take: Requires high-throughput distributed web crawlers (or commercial news firehoses like EventRegistry/NewsAPI), continuous RSS/sitemap polling, multi-lingual deduplication, and a distributed search cluster (e.g., Elasticsearch/Opensearch/ClickHouse) handling millions of documents per day. The hard parts are crawler bandwidth, bypass of bot protections at global scale, real-time index pipeline latency, and the infrastructure costs required to sustain continuous ingestion.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 98 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #53 of 99 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 345 days after the earliest competitor.
- i-News · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Read60 · ph · 2026-10-09 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- NewsStocks.live · ph · 2026-10-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Newsmap · hn · 2025-11-01 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Infini-News · hn · 2026-07-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Newsmaps.io a map of how news topics are covered by different countries · hn · 2026-04-19 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- Insights - Read news in 60 words · ph · 2026-10-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- everythingAInews · ph · 2026-09-25 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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