Show HN: We built our own technology radar (technologieradar.tryresearchly.com)

8 points by leo_researchly 9mo ago ↗ HN

A technology radar helps you monitor and assess emerging trends systematically. Depending on the context a “trend” can be technical, business-related or social.

While such as a technology radar is traditionally reserved for big companies, we’ve found it’s just as valuable for us as a small startup, especially since AI is evolving rapidly (AI is one of our main technologies). The radar helps us track fringe-innovation (like the latest agentic framework form Github) and assess tech beyond the hype.

We built it with our platform (Researchly), but in the post I have also included an N8N workflow and data schema for a do-it-yourself version.

The front-end was inspired by: https://github.com/zalando/tech-radar

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pella 9mo ago ↗

imho - it’s not enough to list trends - the reason behind the status is key.

for example: "GPT-Codex" = Hold. Why?

I find tech radars very interesting - especially in today’s fast-moving world.

A good reference is the ThoughtWorks Radar: https://www.thoughtworks.com/radar

My other favorite: https://www.oreilly.com/radar/topics/radar-trends/

ricardobeat 9mo ago ↗

First thing I noticed is Bolt, Coolify, Lovable all in adopt, in addition to v0 in assess.

The goal of a tech radar is to map out and try to contain the chaos in a large organization, so you don’t end up with seven teams adopting different technologies, and the evaluation process is more structured. Only one of those should have made it to adoption unless they serve wildly different purposes?

iamleppert 9mo ago ↗

I just put the Chipotle app from "Hold" to "Adopt". Do people really use cringy stuff like this?