Akars Haber
A regional news platform built for speed, reliability, and a steady flow of local content — without a large editorial team.
Regional news needs volume, not just quality
Local news survives on freshness — readers check back often, but a small team can't manually track dozens of sources around the clock.
Akars Haber was built to make a lean editorial operation behave like a much larger one, without sacrificing speed or page performance.
An aggregation engine with an editorial layer on top
A scheduled crawler ingests dozens of regional and national sources on a fixed interval, and an AI-assisted rewriting step turns raw items into publish-ready articles, which editors can still review and adjust.
- 35+ local sources plus major national outlets, refreshed on a fixed schedule
- Category-based related news and a full-text search experience
- Admin panel with bulk actions, manual article creation, and source error logging
- SEO-first delivery — sitemap, structured data, and a CDN in front of every page
A small, resilient stack
Node.js/Express serves the application, PostgreSQL holds the content graph, and a CDN sits in front for caching and resilience under traffic spikes — a deliberately boring, dependable stack for a product that needs to never go down.
Where things stand
Core Platform
Crawler, AI-assisted rewriting, admin panel, and SEO infrastructure — live.
Source Network
Local and national source coverage — continuously expanded.
Next
Deeper personalization and richer regional market-data features.
Curious how it runs day to day?
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