03 · ML · Creator tools

Crowdlisten

A trend-discovery engine that turns messy social data into a signal creators can act on.

Role
Software Engineer
Timeline
Jan — Jun 2026
Stack
Node.js · FastAPI · retrieval & ranking
The short version

Creators are drowning in trends. The work was deciding which ones actually matter to them right now — a ranking problem, not a plumbing one.

Ingestion

One pipeline across three platforms

I built data-ingestion pipelines in Node.js and FastAPI that pull from TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube and normalize them into a single stream — the foundation for cross-platform trend discovery instead of three siloed feeds.

Ranking

Modeling velocity and sentiment

The retrieval and ranking systems model how fast a trend is moving and how an audience feels about it, surfacing high-signal, timely topic recommendations. I shipped these features end to end alongside the founder to more than 600 early users.

3
platforms unified
600+
early users shipped to
E2E
owned start to finish