Enter a zip. Get the pulse: trending topics from local news sources, upcoming events, civic meetings, school-board agendas, city-council outcomes. Searchable, searchable back in time, shareable. Built for a neighborhood association, small-town newsroom, or anyone who thinks Nextdoor is ad-farm garbage.
NLP clustering across local news sources in your zip's media market. See what's getting real coverage vs one-off mentions. Topics link to the underlying stories.
Aggregate from library, parks, chamber of commerce, Meetup, and ICS feeds. One calendar per zip. Filter by category (kids / music / civic / food).
City council, school board, planning commission agendas + minutes. Searchable. Email digest when a topic you flagged appears on an upcoming agenda.
Per-zip activity index: how busy the civic + events landscape is this week. Compare to 6-week average. Know when things are cooking.
Save a search (e.g. 'zoning' + my zip). Get an email digest when new content matches. No more daily doomscroll.
Flask + SQLAlchemy. A neighborhood association or small-town newspaper runs the instance. No ad-tech middlemen. No Nextdoor-style engagement optimization.
Hosted plans are early-access. Self-host today; email tim@dangercorn.net to join the waitlist.
localpulse is one of 220+ verticals scaffolded from the same template. Each gets a working skeleton for free; individual ones get promoted to full products as demand surfaces.