Have you heard of Newsblur? Sounds exactly like what you're describing.
API: http://www.newsblur.com/api
Open Source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
Also, cheers for not including a link to your Kickstarter.
API: http://www.newsblur.com/api
Open Source: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
Also, cheers for not including a link to your Kickstarter.
Reader itself had a whole bunch of stuff which got in the way. One time I tried mocking it up with most of that stuff gone and I liked what I found. That's the sort of ideal I went for with my own thing: enough of a bar so people know it's a feed reader and not some scuzzy content thievery site (since they arrive when they see it in their referrer logs), and a way to flip through the posts.
The Kickstarter was an attempt to try something really "out there" for me and see if it would work. It looks like it will not.