10000+Articles processed daily
75%Reducation in manual curation effort
1M+Content items processed overall
THE SHORT STORY
TOPIXS is a content curation and management platform that helps organizations and professional curators aggregate, score, and distribute high-quality content across topics. It centralizes feeds from RSS, APIs, and manual submissions, offers topic and list management, and exposes curated content via secure APIs to third-party applications.
- CLIENT
- Topixs
- INDUSTRY
- Technology
- DURATION
- Ongoing development from MVP to high-scale production
- THE TEAM
- 1 Team Lead, 2–3 Software Developers
01 / Topixs
The challenge.
- Need to aggregate content from numerous sources without overwhelming the system.
- Ensuring high-quality curation across many curators and topics.
- Implementing secure API access for external consumers while controlling usage.
- Keeping content fresh and real-time across hundreds of feeds.
02 / Topixs
Our approach.
- Implemented multi-source ingestion (RSS, APIs, manual) with scalable pipelines and monitoring.
- Built content scoring algorithms, approval workflows, and source ratings to maintain quality.
- Introduced role-based access control with Admin and Curator roles, plus Google SSO via Supabase.
- Designed a secure API system with generated keys, usage tracking, and rate limiting to safely expose curated content.
- Added cron-based feed monitoring and automatic refresh strategies for near real-time updates.
03 / Topixs
What we built.
- A modern Next.js 14 app with article feed, topics management, source management, and custom lists.
- Backend built on Next.js API Routes, Server Actions, PostgreSQL + Prisma, and Supabase Auth.
- Public REST APIs for consuming curated content, protected by API keys and analytics.
- Integrations with Firecrawl, News API, Resend, and RSS parsing services, hosted on Vercel.
04 / Topixs
The impact.
- Processes 10,000+ articles per day with 75% reduction in manual curation time.
- Achieved 8.4/10 average quality score on approved content.
- 1M+ content items processed, 100+ active curators, and 500K+ monthly API requests from 25+ external apps.
- 50% reduction in operational costs and 60% increase in curator productivity, saving ~8 hours per week per curator.
- System performance of <2s page loads, <200ms API response times, and 99.9% uptime.
BEHIND THE BUILD
The technology.
- Next.JS
- PostgreSQL
- Prisma ORM
- Supabase
- Tailwind CSS
- Shadcn/UI
- Firecrawl
- Resend Email
- News API
- RSS Parser
- Vercel
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