Show HN: My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative

Am I the only one who just wants a list of updated articles and possibly an unread count? I don't want social in my RSS. I don't want to "discover" feeds. I don't want to be told what to read. I don't want to follow people.<p>For me, the whole point of RSS is that I find a site I like, I add it to my list, and I'm told when there's a new article.<p>I've tried several alternatives in the last 24 hours, and most of them ignore my actual feeds and give me a whole lot of machine learned articles I couldn't care less about.<p>It's not always the topic that's interesting, it's the writing style, or some kind of imaginary connection I've made with the site or author.<p>If I want to 'discover' articles, I'll browse HN or Reddit. If it's something I think I'll want to keep updated about, that's when I add it to my RSS.

This isn't how you go about finding which is the best. This is how you go about finding which is the most popular.<p>Voting is inherently skewed towards popularity, which is not always correlated with quality.<p>From the headline, I had assumed you spent all night learning the ins and outs of every option and were going to present your findings. I was disappointed to find this was just a poll.

This is a great idea, but I think the rush to find an alternative is premature - there's going to be a huge shift in the RSS reader landscape over the next few months, and the best alternative may not even be announced yet.

Nice touch with the bobbing ship on the side there.

Surprised Feedly is so highly ranked. I tried it out after the last set of Google Reader changes and deleted it after about a week. The mobile app is really awful for skimming lots of content and is too focused on presenting a newspaper like layout. It's all pictures...

It's worth separating clients from servers, and noting which clients can sync with which servers.

Nitpicking I know but reusing the Google Reader favicon actually caused me confusion for a second. Cool idea though, and way more interesting than what I did last night!<p>Anyone complaining about "the RSS landscape changingblah blah blah" must really hate fun. Someone did this in a night to address an immediate problem and probably had a blast doing it, let the guy (girl?) enjoy the fruit of their labor.

This is great! There is one thing missing though. I tried to subscribe to the site in Reader and it couldn't find a feed. Could you?

its nice - but you might want to just mine the twitters mentioning these sites to get a bit more content.

Well done. This site was worth the work, even if it will be a short lived project.<p>I voted for feedly. Those guys also promised a smooth transition once google reader shuts down. Not sure what else you could want.

My problem right now is not getting a list of names of popular feed readers - I can already see that by just browsing any of the many comment threads that have popped up on the internet where people bring up their favourite alternative.<p>What I really need is something to help me make a decision, by comparing what features does each reader support and so on. How much does it cost? Can I see my read in multiple devices? Does it work on smartphones? Can I share links with people? etc...

Really impressed with the aesthetics, especially for such a quick turnaround. Had a peek under the covers and it appears to be well done there too.<p>Top marks in my book.

I am really surprised in all these Google Reader threads I have not seen mention of the free, self-hosted and perfectly simple RSSLounge. I been using it for three years now and even donated.<p>Development has stalled on this one though but the developer has a new RSS project with more social stuff. It is called Selfoss and is at <a href="http://selfoss.aditu.de/" rel="nofollow">http://selfoss.aditu.de/</a> .

I've been doing the same and adding them to StartHQ: <a href="https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader" rel="nofollow">https://starthq.com/apps/?q=reader</a><p>The web app profile pages include speed &#38; trustworthiness info as well as mentions of the app on Hacker News. I will also add popularity rankings and TLDR versions of the ToS over the next few days.

Feedly looks cool and all, but how do I add a feed? I spent 2 minutes and still can't figure it out.

Very nice! I'd really like if you could mark which ones are available open source to run yourself.

Isn't it strange that Newsblur is not even in top 5, the other poll[1] on HN suggested other wise. It was at top of the list on HN Poll.<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5373538</a>

Does anyone know how a good solution to this.<p><a href="http://superuser.com/questions/566201/google-reader-export-import-rss-article-history" rel="nofollow">http://superuser.com/questions/566201/google-reader-export-i...</a>

This looks great. A few animated fish and/or bubbles down towards the bottom of the list could break up the monotony of that long list. (Or even let the ship sink slowly as the ready scrolls down.)

Does Feedly have a web-based client? I'm looking for something to recommend to users at www.searchtempest.com. Many of them have never used (or even heard of) RSS before, so simplicity is key.

Chuffed to be included here, thanks! Would you mind switching the tag to #PlayerFM as a lot of Twitter clients will treat the "." incorrectly.

Made me learn about <a href="http://www.feedly.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.feedly.com/</a> which looks really nice.

How are you guys processing the tweets to show the results? Would love to know more about that.

Nice stuff, I voted for Fever, even though it has some usability issues.

very nice, I also suggest <a href="http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/?platform=online" rel="nofollow">http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/?platform=on...</a>

I adore the design. Nice touch with the sinking ship.

Thanks for the shoutout for BlogRoll! :)

I'm getting an Internal Server Error. :(

i like flipboard the best, but it still needs google reader for my rss feeds...

Love the CSS animation :D

i just found out, i can import my feeds to yandex.com's reader.<p>fast, minimal interface without any bullshit.