Discover. Learn. Build. — A curated, auto-updating directory of AI tools, models, agents, and news — paired with a personal knowledge vault.
Sept-AI is a personal, open-source navigation site for everything happening in AI. It aggregates from 30+ English sources and 14+ Chinese sources every 6 hours, organizes them into a searchable, browsable catalog, and layers a personal knowledge vault on top — built on the idea that tools + knowledge = leverage.
| Layer | What it is | Who maintains it |
|---|---|---|
| 🧭 Navigator | Trending news · Tools · Models · Agents · Providers | Auto-aggregated by Python pipeline |
| 👤 Me | Claude Learning · Prompts · Workflows · Projects | Hand-written notes (Obsidian vault) |
Both layers read from the same Obsidian vault at my-content/, so local editing, graph view, and backlinks just work.
- 🔥 Trending — Hot items across EN & CN AI communities, updated every 6 hours
- 🛠️ Tools Directory — 170+ curated AI applications with use cases & alternatives
- 🧠 Models Registry — LLMs, diffusion, multimodal — tracked from HuggingFace & OpenRouter
- 🤖 Agents — Autonomous AI systems, frameworks, dev tools
- 📰 Dual-channel News — English (Anthropic, OpenAI, DeepMind, ArXiv, Cursor, …) + Chinese (机器之心, 量子位, 知乎热榜, …)
- 🏢 Providers — 20+ model API providers with pricing & modality info
- ☀️ Daily Brief (coming in Phase 8) — AI-generated daily summary in EN & CN
- 👤 Me Page — Personal knowledge: Claude learning, prompt library, projects, contact
- 🌗 Light & Dark themes · Responsive · Obsidian-native data
sept-ai/
├── my-content/ ◀── Obsidian Vault (single source of truth)
│ ├── 00-Scraped/{EN,CN}/ auto-written by scrapers
│ ├── 01-Daily-Brief/ AI-summarized daily digest
│ ├── 10-Tools/ 20-Models/ 30-Agents/ 40-Providers/
│ ├── 50-My-Knowledge/ Claude-Learning · Prompts · Workflows
│ └── 99-About-Me/ About · Projects · Support · Contact
│
├── site/ ◀── Hugo static site
├── scripts/ ◀── Python aggregation pipeline
├── data/ ◀── JSON snapshots for Hugo
└── .github/workflows/ ◀── cron every 6h + auto-deploy
GitHub Actions (cron 0 */6 * * *)
│
▼
scripts/aggregate.py
│
├─ EN scrapers ──► my-content/00-Scraped/EN/{source}/
├─ CN scrapers ──► my-content/00-Scraped/CN/{source}/
└─ sync_claude_learning.py ──► my-content/50-My-Knowledge/Claude-Learning/
│
▼
commit + push ──► Netlify builds Hugo ──► live site
- Hugo Extended ≥ 0.128 —
winget install Hugo.Hugo.Extended - Python ≥ 3.11
- Git
git clone https://github.com/Septoff21/sept-ai.git
cd sept-ai
# 1. Install Python deps
pip install -r scripts/requirements.txt
# 2. Run the aggregator once (takes ~1-2 min)
python scripts/aggregate.py
# 3. Sync data → site
cp -r data/* site/data/
# 4. Start Hugo dev server
cd site && hugo server --bind 0.0.0.0 --port 1313Open http://localhost:1313.
Official AI labs: Anthropic News · Anthropic Research · OpenAI Blog · Google DeepMind · Google AI Blog · Microsoft AI Blog · Meta AI · xAI
Dev tools: Cursor Changelog · HuggingFace Blog · HuggingFace Papers
Research: ArXiv cs.AI · Simon Willison's Weblog · Latent Space
Media: TechCrunch AI · The Verge AI · MIT Tech Review · Ars Technica · VentureBeat AI
Community: Hacker News · Reddit (r/ClaudeAI · r/OpenAI · r/MachineLearning · r/LocalLLaMA · r/artificial · r/singularity) · Product Hunt AI
Discovery: GitHub Trending · HuggingFace Models · OpenRouter
机器之心 · 量子位 · 新智元 · 36氪 · InfoQ AI · 掘金 AI · 少数派 · 虎嗅 · 极客公园 · CSDN AI · V2EX · 知乎热榜 · 微博热搜 · 百度热词
See PLAN.md for the full phase checklist.
- Phase 0 — Project scaffolding (fork + local setup)
- Phase 1 — Repo setup (in progress)
- Phase 2 — Vault skeleton
- Phase 3 — Data layer refactor (EN/CN split)
- Phase 4 — English UI (i18n)
- Phase 5 — UI redesign (Claude-style · Light/Dark)
- Phase 6 — Expand data sources (+20 sources)
- Phase 7 — Me page + Buy-me-a-coffee
- Phase 8 — Ship + SEO (Netlify deploy · sitemap · OpenGraph · schema.org)
Sept-AI is built to be findable:
- Per-page
<title>and<meta description>tuned for each tool/model/news item - OpenGraph + Twitter Card tags
schema.org/SoftwareApplicationJSON-LD for tools- Auto-generated
sitemap.xml+robots.txt - RSS feed at
/index.xml - Hugo-minified HTML with Lighthouse-friendly defaults
| Layer | Tech |
|---|---|
| Static site generator | Hugo (extended) |
| Data pipeline | Python 3.11 — feedparser, requests, trafilatura, beautifulsoup4 |
| Knowledge vault | Obsidian — markdown + backlinks + graph view |
| CI / Cron | GitHub Actions |
| Hosting | Netlify (free tier) |
| Fonts | Inter + Source Han Sans (思源黑体) |
| Icons | Lucide |
This project was originally forked from laolaoshiren/ai-hot — a Chinese AI aggregation site — and has been substantially refactored, internationalized, redesigned, and extended with a personal knowledge vault. Huge thanks to the original author for the solid foundation.
If Sept-AI saves you time, you can buy me a coffee via TNG or reach out at septoff21@gmail.com.
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