One of the things I wonder here is if it would be easier to just start by crawling known RSS feeds and then exposing a JSON API for the data and making the whol

One of the things I wonder here is if it would be easier to just start by crawling known RSS feeds and then exposing a JSON API for the data and making the whole thing open source. Then keeping a public list of indexes and who crawls what. Eventually moving into crawling other sources but first primarily addressing the majority of useful content that's easily parseable.