Deploy and Host AIHOT engine (AI news hot-topics site) on Railway

AIHOT engine is an open-source website that collects items from news sources every day, lets a language model screen and score them, clusters reports into events, ranks them by "heat" and writes a daily digest. This template runs it on Railway with the upstream code pinned to a commit we tested, an admin password generated for you and the app's files on a volume.

About Hosting AIHOT engine (AI news hot-topics site)

The template builds one container that runs the web site, the API and the worker together (they share the /data volume, and Railway volumes attach to one service), plus a Railway PostgreSQL database. If any of the three processes stops, the container stops and Railway restarts it. Please read before deploying: the interface and everything the site writes are in Chinese (upstream design), and you need an API key for any OpenAI-compatible model provider - model calls are billed by your provider, and the admin has budget limits. It ships with 18 public AI news sources as a demo; replace them with your own field's sources in the admin. Per the author's request, give your site your own name and logo (the default name is MyHOT). Tested on a fresh throw-away VM and with a real Railway deploy: build, start, site online, admin login required.

Common Use Cases

Run a daily, model-screened news digest for one field (AI by default; any field by changing the sources)
Track hot topics: reports from many sources clustered into events and ranked by heat
Self-host a curated news site under your own name instead of following dozens of feeds by hand

Dependencies for AIHOT engine (AI news hot-topics site) Hosting

PostgreSQL (Railway database; DATABASE_URL is referenced automatically)
An OpenAI-compatible LLM API (your key; e.g. DeepSeek)

Deployment Dependencies

Upstream project (MIT): https://github.com/KKKKhazix/AIHOT (pinned to commit 2b80294)
Template source + test result: https://github.com/localhavenstore/railway-aihot

Why Deploy AIHOT engine (AI news hot-topics site) on Railway?

Railway runs the container, the database, HTTPS and restarts for you, so the three processes and PostgreSQL work without a server to manage. Model calls are billed separately by your provider; check your Railway usage page for hosting costs.

New to Railway? Our referral link: https://railway.com?referralCode=j8As-k - you get USD 20 of credit, we get a share of your usage. This template is not made by or affiliated with the AIHOT author or Railway. Made with AI assistance and tested by us (Localhaven).