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Please give me feedback on my project-- RSS digests via email.

22 pointsby tymekpavelalmost 16 years ago

12 comments

surfmikealmost 16 years ago
I really like getting RSS by email, because I can avoid using another product (an RSS reader) but still get the feeds I want without having to browse out to them everyday. I've found I waste less time browsing blogs ever since I switched to a once-a-day digest.<p>It'd be nice to set the time you get the digest, in addition to specifying how often you get it. I also found the URLs on the right side (once you're logged in) are cut a bit short, perhaps you could display the full URL on hover?
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gcvalmost 16 years ago
Nice. I'd been looking for some way to consolidate information gathering into one app (email), and tried feedmyinbox at one point (ended up giving up on it because, at the time, it could not do digests).<p>With regard to the UI, I'd appreciate a cue telling me when to expect the next digest. I see that it's on a 24-hour cycle, but is that on the stroke of midnight? Midnight in which time zone? Is that 24 hours since the last time I added a feed?
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tdoggettealmost 16 years ago
It seems to me (and I might be wrong) that a large portion of your customer base might be people that are comfortable with email but not RSS, and thus could benefit from a sentence of copy on what exactly RSS does for them.
turtle4almost 16 years ago
Not bad. Immediate thought is that I would like to have the ability to make more than 1 digest. I don't really want -everything- all at once. I might want all my deal feeds to come in one email, and all my news feeds to come in another email.<p>A simple [Add new digest] feature would be nice, where each digest can be set up on a different schedule, and with a custom email subject line. Then when you add, you add a feed to a particular digest.
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paraschopraalmost 16 years ago
Nice one. This is exactly what I was looking at.<p>A note about using PHP's mail function. Sending excessive mails from one IP may get it blacklisted, unless you take special measures. Sending mail reliably is hard and doing it on a large scale is even harder.<p>BTW, is it on shared host or a VPS?
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johnpaulettalmost 16 years ago
Interesting.<p>One competitor, xFruits, has been around for a while and offers quite a few methods for transforming data from one form to another (RSS to email, mobile, voice, etc.) <a href="http://www.xfruits.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.xfruits.com/</a>
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tymekpavelalmost 16 years ago
demo account details:<p><pre><code> username: demo@peekfeed.com password: demo </code></pre> ...or make a free account and try it out!
adharmadalmost 16 years ago
Which email client users are you targetting?<p>Thunderbird and gmail both have abilities to show RSS feeds natively (gmail via web links).
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pstinnettalmost 16 years ago
Any thoughts on adding an API so that sites can use your service to offer email digests of their posts?
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python_kissalmost 16 years ago
I like it. What are you using to send the email? Simple HTML functions or perhaps something more sophisticated, like phpList?
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umenalmost 16 years ago
teach question if i may what configuration do u use for the email sending ? did you set up smtp server to deal with the load. or are u using what ever scripting language build in tools for sending emails Thanks
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pqsalmost 16 years ago
how dows it compare to feedmyinbox.com? Did you try both? Which one would you choose?