Show HN: PubCenter – a RSS archiving service
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The RSS/Atom standards are a really great invention to help syndicate news in a no-fuss manner. However, a shortcoming is that you can't retrieve older articles: you can only get a fixed number of latest articles (usually 20 articles... sometimes more if they're generous!)
This is the problem PubCenter is trying to solve. We cache articles from RSS feeds and save them... allowing you to retrieve any article, at any point in time.
PubCenter essentially is what Feedly Cloud offers. Or Google Reader's RSS database (before they went defunct). In our case, we're a non-profit and don't require any signups or log any user activity. It's just free, and no strings attached.
How do we make money? The REST API is free, however we have a paid notifications service that lets you subscribe to an RSS feed and have it articles delivered via email, SMS, or your custom API endpoint. There's fine-grained control of this that's easy to manage (see imgur album)^1
Thanks for reading! Let me know if you have any questions here.
I would pay for a global search filter / API across all feeds or within a segment. Also, offline support for local caching.
Can you elaborate on "offline support for local caching?"
Have you thought about a place for users to submit URLs for archiving?