Response to Feedback: "I built a geopolitical intelligence aggregator that monitors 641 sources and clusters events with auditable confidence scoring"
Eight days ago, I posted this project Panopsik here and got some of the most useful feedback I've received since starting it. Thank you genuinely. The kind of criticism this sub gave would cost serious money from a consultant and you gave it for free.
I want to address the main points directly rather than just saying "we listened."
Basically... you were right on almost everything. The event points were showing too little to be actionable, the intelligence assessments were AI-generated noise that wouldn't survive five seconds with a real analyst, and the related articles were embarrassingly off-topic. These have been the priority this week.
What's changed:
- Added a landing page.
- Broke down the main dashboard into multiple lighter dashboards.
- Fixed a mountain of imperfections.
- Added the infrastructure layer.
- Currently in the process of allowing users to create their own dashboards depending on what information they want.
What's new:
You can now create an account. This lets you save searches, set alert thresholds for specific regions, and track how situations develop over time rather than getting a snapshot. It also means we can start understanding how people actually use this, which will drive what we fix next.
Still rough: clustering confidence on lower-tier sources, multilingual support, Southeast Asia coverage. We know.
If you tested it last week and wrote it off... fair. Come back and tell us if it's any better. If you haven't looked yet, now's a better time than eight days ago.