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How to build my own information feed / front page?

18 pointsrolicia10 comments

How have you solved the problem of getting a personalized feed of the information you would like to consume?

I would like to have show up on this feed articles from:

- news websites i frequent - medium stories from people i follow - tweets from people i like

basically a daily newspaper built just for me.

I'm not a developer, so looking for 3rd party solutions that are basically plug and play. Perhaps an extension or something?

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https://mailbrew.com let’s you compile everything into a daily digest email (RSS, Twitter, newsletters, Podcasts, etc.). You could also use a webapp that does the same like https://sumi.news

Been trying out mailbrew for a couple of weeks now. I'm liking it so far. Increased productivity.

If I were to follow your activity, comments and posts, on Hacker News, I'd add the RSS feed https://hnrss.org/user?id=rolicia to Thunderbird.

If I wanted them separate:

- https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=rolicia (threads/posts/"stories")

- https://hnrss.org/threads?id=rolicia (comments/"threads")

I just posted detailed steps on how to set up something like this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697834 to follow certain keywords on comments or posts.

You can click on that link and see

I want the same thing and I'm also not techie. During my research <still ongoing> I've just been saving lots of stuff. I came across dashboard type programs: www.finalboard.com seems to be the best of them because it's FOSS.

But again the difficulty is that if you aren't techie...you have to hire someone and then TRUST them to build it for you and not retain access etc.

Fetchrss.com generates an rss feed from any source and I think it can be added to finalboard also. The Twitter issue is harder for me because I refuse to sign up even though I go to several folks tweetstorms. I wish they had a "follow-only" account one could sign up for....

Perhaps start with a search for "news aggregators"; Daily Rotation allows you to record sites from which it will provide daily headlines. https://www.dailyrotation.com/

It sounds like you want a portal like MyYahoo or iGoogle, popular in the early 2000s. You could add widgets for RSS, weather, stocks, and lots more. Too bad most of those are long gone

ah yes.. https://my.yahoo.com - pageflakes.com - netvibes.com - These were awesome - especially when it was easy to grab rss feeds from many places.

Some places killed their rss - many just hid them and made them harder to find - now there's sites that make rss from non-enabled sites - so I'm hoping for a resurgence.

Check out: https://fraidyc.at/

Write an aggregator API

If the site you like still support RSS that’s likely the easiest way to go

> I'm not a developer, so looking for 3rd party solutions that are basically plug and play

I think that writing an API might not be an option for OP

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