Hello HN! I've been working on this new open-source project called [name-redacted]. It is a simple and powerful RSS reader for the web with a modern UI, PWA support, and a built-in article reader.<p>Visit it at [link-redacted]<p>View our GitHub repo at [link-redacted]
Have you run this by RachelByTheBay's feed reader testing thing?<p><a href="http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/30/fs/" rel="nofollow">http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/05/30/fs/</a><p>Probably worth at least reading through this post: <a href="http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/08/02/fs/" rel="nofollow">http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2024/08/02/fs/</a> to learn from other feed reader developer's mistakes...
A couple of quick suggestions:<p>* Provide some example feeds in the left side bar when the list is empty, so people new to RSS aren't just looking at an empty, black page. Maybe <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/rss">https://news.ycombinator.com/rss</a> ?<p>* Provide an OPML import option so experienced RSS-using users can quickly populate their list of feeds and compare your project with whatever they are currently using.
If you’re into local-first RSS, check out my reader which generates markdown files and can be consumed with any markdown reader.<p><a href="https://github.com/piqoni/matcha">https://github.com/piqoni/matcha</a>
I tried adding my website (<a href="https://kevincox.ca" rel="nofollow">https://kevincox.ca</a>) and just got a broken image on the sidebar. Tried another site and nothing changed. I don't see any way to manage these feeds either. Maybe it lacks feed discovery? But it should still be giving an error if it couldn't read the feed.
Looks like a nice start!<p>What I miss is good filtering and search within the feeds. Some readers make "smart folders". But usually the searches are pretty primitive: not searching metadata (like starred or read/unread, in or out of another named search, etc), lacking regular expressions etc). Also no way to apply changes (e.g. read/unread) to multiple selections, etc.<p>I'll look in from time to time -- might be worth a switch.
Check out my FreeRSS web-based portal I made a while back. Inspired by the defunct iGoogle.<p><a href="https://github.com/robdelacruz/freerss">https://github.com/robdelacruz/freerss</a><p><a href="https://freerss.robdelacruz.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://freerss.robdelacruz.xyz/</a><p>Unfortunately, it needs to be revamped or recreated from scratch because I can no longer recompile it due to the changes in SvelteJS.
This is really intriguing. I downloaded UnRead which has a lot of buzz, but I was fine with NetNewsWire from before. And I really don't use them that much. Much prefer the web browser.
I used to love using RSS readers to get my news, but at this point so few of the papers/websites I read actually offer non-truncated RSS feeds that I don't see the viability of RSS readers anymore. I guess they did that to prevent people getting around paywalls.