Show HN: I've Implemented a RSS Reader
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A more passive newspaper-grid layout would be cool. Selectively chosen headlines and images, tap to see full article. Each personal "newspaper page" is static, it won't change after it's been viewed, only new posts added to the bottom. Then you could scroll back thru pages per-day.
Any chance you could integrate with RSS aggregators, like FreshRSS, miniflux, ttrss or any of the other self-hosted aggregators? I use FreshRSS and I like having my feeds synced no matter what device I view it on. The Android clients for FreshRSS[0] are a little lacking IMO or a bit out of date so it'd be great to see something new.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet_(software)
Unfortunately there don't seem to be many planets anymore. My YOShInOn RSS reader has a Tik-Tok like interface and trains a machine learning model to learn my preferences. The typical cycle I use it on is 2 days in which it might find 6000 feed items, it shows me 300, and I might skim another 100 on special screens that score high on certain models or that fill in gaps.
It is subscribed to 110 feeds through SuperFeedr which costs about 10 cents a feed per month that's affordable at my scale. I'd like to be subscribed to 1500+ independent blogs that post once a month or once a week but I can't afford to do that with SuperFeedr so I think sometimes about retrofitting the front end but really overpolling those independent blogs 20-50x is for the birds.
People could post their items to ActivityPub but barring that I really wish there were more Planets out there because it would be simple and cost effective to subscribe to 1 Planet that itself sucks in content from 50 blogs.
I wonder where would I even start, if I wanted to bring rss into my personal Supabase instance. Chron job periodically triggering a serverless function that asks a website for the requested feed (just async fetch), then using some js rss parser library, then insert to supabase table? I really have no knowledge about rss other than as a consumer.
Often times I'm CC'd on an email thread and can't always know what is going on just from previews, so an AI summary as the headlines would be very helpful to be able to know what is going on, without having to go into my inbox...
What is the point of "going longer without having to go to your inbox" if you have to go to your RSS reader instead?
I like how simple the UX is, there's just a no-bells-and-whistles presentation, which is good. Thanks for not implementing accounts and data collection, as well. This is a big selling point for me on anything I use these days, although I admittedly see where account creation is useful, so I am a bit more forgiving on that.
My complaints are that it seems cumbersome to add your own sources. Darkmode also seems to be missing? These days, this should be the default mode for any reader app, let the users who want to suffer a blinding white background turn it on if they wish. The "mark all as read" button is in an awkward spot, too easy to fat-thumb when scrolling right handed. Maybe next that in a hamburger menu along with other customization options.
Great start, for sure, and so far it feels like a "cleaner" experience than other mobile RSS readers I've tried recently. I'm not necessarily interested in device syncing, but I can see where some users might want that, though that would require some kind of account or token implementation.
I don’t blame the author in the slightest for the upgrade — really, a rewrite it seems — which has some enhancements over v2, but it takes a while for something like that to reach parity with the previous version.
In the first, I get an app, but you get nothing but a pat on the back. I enjoy something, you don't, eventually you get resentful seeing thousands of people using what you built so you decide to make money off it. At this point, it doesn't really matter how you do it, either with ads, subscription, or secret dark-web stuff, you'll change the game and your users will not trust you as an author and just uninstall the app.
In the other, you charge a one-off £4.99. This is really quite small, but I now know the author gets some value from me and we've entered into a understandable contract. You are in the same place as before, but now ~$4.99 richer, which is nice. In the future, you make a bit of money and want to make more money. So you can now raise the price which will affect only future users. You can now also produce other apps, which I'll also look at those and think, well, the first app was good, I'll try those because I trust the author.
But I don't think it displays all the tags - eg I know some entries in my subs reference a file that should be downloadable.. but there's no reference or visibility of that.
<enclosure url="http://example.com/file.mp3" length="123456789" type="audio/mpeg" />
StreamSphere - RSS Reader is the app name on the play store