I would like to see topic classification applied to message forums, such as Hacker News, so that I could stop manually bookmarking and tagging. Algolia is indexing and offering search capabilities and ought to take the lead on this. If they don't, they may be disrupted by a provider who does.
(I'm an Algolia employee) We don't plan to add classification but would love to partner with anyone willing to work on it, providing them with access to GH repositories and/or API tokens. Let us know through our support channels.