Ingestion & Website Architecture
How Acultura-te aggregates cultural events from Lisbon, enriches them with AI, and serves them through a Next.js app with hybrid semantic search.
Project
Acultura-te
A "Letterboxd for culture" — discovering, tracking, and getting AI-curated recommendations for cultural events in Portugal.
Acultura-te (aculturate.pt) is a platform for discovering cultural events in Portugal and building a personal cultural history — wishlist, going, attended, diary entries, and social features like following other users. It aggregates events from municipal agendas, theaters, and independent venues, enriches them with AI, and makes them searchable in natural language.
The project has two halves that I'm documenting separately. The website and ingestion pipeline — a Next.js app on Vercel backed by Supabase, fed by a Python/Dagster pipeline that scrapes, translates, and embeds events, all running on a Raspberry Pi at home and triggered remotely over Tailscale. And an agent swarm — a Telegram-driven LangGraph system that acts as the operational back-office, catching data-quality issues and answering questions about the platform in natural language, with every mutation gated behind human confirmation.