More peripheral aspects of the product & business.<p>Our motivation: Using a mouse is the <i>de facto</i> device for the web, but it requires fine motor skills that feels incongruent for RSS readers. Why? RSS is primarily text-driven media, and the human-computer interface should be text-driven too. There's something about using a keyboard that feels more efficient and, consequently, more pleasurable!<p>Our biz model: After the beta, we'll be releasing a Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the app so that people can self-host CoreText. Our "cloud managed" version will be closed sourced but have bleeding edge features slightly upstream from the LTS release. The cloud managed version will be ~$3USD/month. We want to be as FOSSy as possible, but also want to bootstrap the business so that CoreText can have at least 1 full-time employee. I think this is a good plan, but willing to be persuaded otherwise.<p>Loose thoughts: CoreText will be staunchly anti-algorithm so articles will always be chronologically-sorted by latest/oldest articles. "Suggested articles for you" is one of the lamest things to happen to RSS readers. We also have a healthy disdain for advertising & government so we won't be doing anything weird with user data. We also have a FISA Warrant Canary in case we're forced to comply to any warrants (<a href="https://coretext.io/warrant-canary" rel="nofollow">https://coretext.io/warrant-canary</a>). Lastly, there will never be any kind of platform lock-in so exiting CoreText will always be frictionless whether you're a free/paid customer. We want to honor Aaron Swartz's original vision of RSS as the most popular decentralized & portable layer of the web.