Trend Monitor

Overview

Staying ahead of trends is a competitive advantage. Trend Monitor watches the platforms that matter and surfaces what’s gaining traction before it hits mainstream awareness. Unlike generic news feeds, it understands your domain and filters accordingly.

Configure your topics of interest, and the skill monitors Twitter/X, Hacker News, Reddit, GitHub Trending, Product Hunt, and major tech news outlets. It detects velocity (how fast something is growing) and relevance (how much it matters to your configured interests).

Delivered as daily digests with optional real-time alerts for high-velocity trends.

How It Works

1. Configure — Set your topics, keywords, and platforms to monitor
2. Collect — Agents scan configured platforms at regular intervals
3. Analyze — Trend detection algorithms identify velocity and relevance
4. Filter — Intelligent noise filtering removes low-quality signals
5. Deliver — Daily digests and instant alerts for significant trends

Use Cases

• Tech leadership — Stay current with emerging technologies
• Content strategy — Identify trending topics for timely content creation
• Product development — Spot emerging user needs and feature requests
• Investing — Track technology and market trends
• Competitive awareness — Know what the industry is talking about

Getting Started

# config.yaml
topics:
  - "AI agents"
  - "developer tools"
  - "LLM frameworks"
platforms:
  - hackernews
  - twitter
  - github_trending
  - reddit
schedule: "daily"
notify: "email"

Example

📊 Daily Trend Digest — March 29, 2026

🔥 Hot (>200% velocity increase):
- "Browser Use 2.0" — New release trending on HN (#1), GitHub (2.4k stars in 24h)
- "AI agent security" — Major discussion after litellm vulnerability disclosure

📈 Rising:
- "Multi-agent orchestration" — Steady increase across Reddit and Twitter
- "Local LLM deployment" — Growing interest in self-hosted solutions

📉 Cooling:
- "Prompt engineering" — Declining interest as agents become more autonomous

Alternatives

• Google Trends — Search trend data from Google
• Exploding Topics — Trend discovery platform
• SparkToro — Audience and trend research tool