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Comment by raresp | Hacker News Reader

I'm sorry but this website doesn't provide some innovative news feed, all I can find here is a simple RSS reader.

In my opinion this post shouldn't be on the front page. I guess it's all about the author's karma (or other users who upvotedt it).

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I disagree - yes, it's a simple project and probably not something I'd use, but it's also somewhat inspirational. It's a clean interface that does exactly what it's designed to do with minimal fuss. This is what hobby development is all about IMO.

Ah give them a break, it's a nice reader, that sure is just probably a bit of RSS, but it looks nice and it's good to see something simple like this that isn't cluttered. As a Londoner it's also nice there is a decent London page.

Maybe it's karma powered, but yeah I feel a bit sad about this on the frontpage, not because I don't see the merit of it, but because I've tried to promote my feed that was tracking hundred of startup blogs and tech giants, and I was just able to get like 4 points in the 3 occasions I put it on Show HN. It's already water over the bridge and it's not tracking any more news, but anyway, sorry for this mini rant.

Readspike has been live for 5 years with only a handful of regular visitors, this is totally out of the blue for me! No idea who submitted it, I thought my site had errored when I saw it listed on itself