Public Signal

Inspiration

Remembering to do things is hard, we wanted to create an application that goes out and finds when you have to do things, then reminds you.

What it does

Public Signal automatically finds relevant sources based on a given task. It can periodically the sources for changes and notifies the user when something happens. The periods that Public Signal uses can be set by the user, and can be told to check by the user as well. Even though it is in the READ.md, we did not create an extension, so currently it is only just the website.

How we built it

We used html and css to create the website, we use chrome alarms into, it uses fire crawl to find the internet

Challenges we ran into

Twilio did not work, even though it sent a message it did not go through all the way to my phone for SMS. So we had to scrap SMS. We also had to scrap the extension because it just looked so bad.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

It automatically goes across the web in order to find info to find information by itself just from plain text which is pretty cool.

What we learned

We learned how to create models that automatically work on their own to find info from the internet to do their own tasks based on plain text. We also learned a bit about SMS even though we failed,

What's next for Public Signal

We want to add SMS, make it a chrome extension, and make it a VS code extension. Able to access your chrome calendar.

User enters a concern ↓ Node.js backend builds a search query ↓ Firecrawl Search discovers live webpages ↓ Firecrawl profiles each webpage into structured data ↓ PublicSignal ranks, deduplicates, and summarizes the sources ↓ User approves the sources ↓ Firecrawl Scrape captures a fresh baseline ↓ Snapshots are stored in JSON locally or Firestore in production ↓ Cloud Scheduler triggers future checks ↓ Firecrawl re-scrapes each source with change tracking ↓ PublicSignal parses the diff and evaluates relevance ↓ Related source changes are combined ↓ An evidence-backed alert appears