Example surfaces are illustrative only and do not imply affiliation, endorsement, or official integration with PulseGate.
Official project surfaces
- Example surfaces
- Canonical sites, docs, changelogs, release pages
- Signal types
- Identity anchoring, update recency, evidence the project is live
- Caveats
- Canonical URLs can shift; sparse pages reduce confidence
Official stores and marketplaces
- Example surfaces
- App Store, Google Play, browser stores, plugins
- Signal types
- Public listing evidence, category hints, freshness proxies
- Caveats
- Store metadata can be stale or generic; categories vary. When a listing exposes the developer's own website, that website becomes the canonical anchor and the store URL is kept as an external identifier.
Registries and package ecosystems
- Example surfaces
- NPM, PyPI, package directories, extension registries
- Signal types
- Version/update flow, public release evidence, developer tooling identity
- Caveats
- Not every registry package qualifies as a listing
Code hosts
- Example surfaces
- GitHub repositories, GitLab projects
- Signal types
- The project’s anchor when the repo declares a homepage; otherwise the repo URL itself serves as the anchor
- Caveats
- Non-repo URLs (gists, issues, wikis, blob/tree views) are not indexed as projects
Topic/event signals
- Example surfaces
- Hacker News, Reddit, RSS/news, official announcements
- Signal types
- Momentum, event strength, coverage breadth, confidence
- Caveats
- Noisy by nature; confidence gates reduce one-source overreaction. Used as a momentum signal, never as the sole canonical signal.
Manual submissions
- Example surfaces
- The public submit form — an optional nudge to point us at a URL
- Signal types
- High-priority intake with user-asserted identity
- Caveats
- Same gates as everything else — denylist, dedup, and LLM gate still apply