diff --git a/cmd/crawler.go b/cmd/crawler.go
index ea31610..11b1687 100644
--- a/cmd/crawler.go
+++ b/cmd/crawler.go
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	if count == 0 {
-		log.Println("initializing crawler from empty database")
+		log.Println("initialize from empty database")
 
 		nodes := make([]graph.ID, len(config.InitPubkeys))
 		for i, pk := range config.InitPubkeys {
@@ -67,46 +67,29 @@ func main() {
 	}
 
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	wg.Add(3)
+	wg.Add(4)
 
 	go func() {
 		defer wg.Done()
-		pipe.Firehose(ctx, config.Firehose, db, func(event *nostr.Event) error {
-			select {
-			case events <- event:
-			default:
-				log.Printf("Firehose: channel is full, dropping event ID %s by %s", event.ID, event.PubKey)
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
+		pipe.Firehose(ctx, config.Firehose, db, enqueue(events))
 	}()
 
 	go func() {
 		defer wg.Done()
-		pipe.Fetcher(ctx, config.Fetcher, pubkeys, func(event *nostr.Event) error {
-			select {
-			case events <- event:
-			default:
-				log.Printf("Fetcher: channel is full, dropping event ID %s by %s", event.ID, event.PubKey)
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
+		pipe.Fetcher(ctx, config.Fetcher, pubkeys, enqueue(events))
 	}()
 
 	go func() {
 		defer wg.Done()
-		pipe.Arbiter(ctx, config.Arbiter, db, func(pubkey string) error {
-			select {
-			case pubkeys <- pubkey:
-			default:
-				log.Printf("Arbiter: channel is full, dropping pubkey %s", pubkey)
-			}
-			return nil
-		})
+		pipe.Arbiter(ctx, config.Arbiter, db, enqueue(pubkeys))
+	}()
+
+	go func() {
+		defer wg.Done()
+		pipe.Processor(ctx, config.Processor, db, events)
 	}()
 
 	go printStats(ctx)
-	pipe.Processor(ctx, config.Processor, db, events)
 	wg.Wait()
 }
 
@@ -120,6 +103,18 @@ func handleSignals(cancel context.CancelFunc) {
 	cancel()
 }
 
+// enqueue things into channels
+func enqueue[T any](queue chan T) func(t T) error {
+	return func(t T) error {
+		select {
+		case queue <- t:
+		default:
+			log.Printf("channel is full, dropping %v", t)
+		}
+		return nil
+	}
+}
+
 func printStats(ctx context.Context) {
 	filename := "stats.log"
 	file, err := os.OpenFile(filename, os.O_CREATE|os.O_WRONLY|os.O_APPEND, 0644)