Horizon alternatives
Curated alternatives to Horizon — and why you'd switch.
SurfSense
Open-source competitive-intelligence platform for agents: live Reddit/YouTube/TikTok/Maps/search connectors; scheduled agents produce briefs and alerts into a cited knowledge base. REST + MCP.
Why switchBoth watch live sources and produce briefs; SurfSense is the platform play (connectors, API/MCP, cited knowledge base for agents), Horizon the personal radar — one human, one daily briefing.
Full comparison →worldmonitor
Real-time global situational-awareness dashboard: curated feeds AI-synthesized into briefs over a 3D globe, cross-stream correlation and a country instability index — plus MCP, REST API and CLI.
Why switchBoth turn the news firehose into something you can actually read. Horizon is a personal radar that generates scheduled daily briefings from sources you pick; World Monitor is always-live, map-first, and correlates streams rather than summarizing them once a day.
Full comparison →last30days-skill
The /last30days skill: researches any topic across Reddit, X, YouTube, HN, TikTok and Polymarket in parallel, scores by real engagement, and synthesizes one grounded brief. 50+ agent hosts.
Why switchBoth answer 'what happened lately' from public sources; last30days is a one-shot parallel sweep you invoke, horizon a scheduled self-hosted radar that mails you briefings.
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