Show HN: Readdu – the last RSS / Feed reader you'll ever use

readdu.com

12 points·krychu··3 comments

Hey guys,

This is my first submission here and I wanted to give you few more details on the project. My main goal for Readdu was to build it with "as little design as possible". I wanted to give prominence to content, push UI away to the second plan, and to remove the slavery of marking stories "READ". I also wanted to make feed management easy.

The result is an RSS reader with a markdown-like editor, single-focus stream, "ambient" UI, automatically decreasing counters, and one-click catalog of feeds. I hope you enjoy it!

This looks really interesting. I'm always in favor of more RSS-readers competing, and Markdown-like also gets bonus points. One thing I'd love to see, as someone who surveyed the field back when Google Reader shutdown and found my new RSS home (Newsblur), is a comparison table/list.

In other words, how does Readdu compare to Newsblur, Feedly, TTRSS, etc. (Bonus points for being transparent on where you don't have an advantage as well as where your advantages are)

Thanks for the kind words. I fear that tabular comparisons are poor at capturing the overall experience with the product, which was one of the main motivations to create Readdu. Some other readers feel clunky, filled with lots of controls and UI switches, lots of visual noise, and also require you to click around much (marking stories "READ", dragging them to folders etc.). How do I explain that in a table? ;)

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