I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too

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  1. smallweb

    Kagi Small Web

    > Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.

    And we also have near-universal OPML import/export, so the cost of switching is minimised.

    > What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?

    You don't need a revolution to make something compelling, you just need to improve on something. RSS has a lot of shortcomings, most importantly discoverability.

    Here's a simple idea: crowdsourced discovery. Users could opt-in to anonymously share their feed list (whole or parts); keyword-based categorisation could group them into topics; etc. The reader could use an algorithm (haha, we're coming full circle) to suggest interesting topics, feeds, posts. Honestly I'd be interested in something like <https://kagi.com/smallweb/>.

    Extra kudos if the dataset is released publicly.

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  3. blogscroll

    📜 An aggregator of independently-owned blogs

  4. rss-feeds

    Generate RSS feeds for all the blogs that don't have one

    Wanted to share a repo I created last week to help add support for new RSS feeds: https://github.com/olshansk/rss-feeds/

    Add support for Paul Graham's outdated RSS Feed. OpenAI research. Etc...

    Leave a request or a star!

    Also wrote a full blog post about it here: https://olshansky.substack.com/p/no-rss-feed-no-problem-usin...

  5. superheap

    I'm a fan of RSS too. Some people I know use substack to write. I would ideally like to use kill-the-newsletter for that but I had trouble with delivery with substack. Fortunately, these days LLMs are quite quick so I was able to whip up a little tool that does this for myself: https://github.com/roshan/superheap

  6. FreshRSS

    A free, self-hostable news aggregator…

    I never left RSS.

    After Google Reader shut down paid for Feedly for a while before switching to self-hosted FreshRSS. (https://freshrss.org)

    I'm not a web guy and I detest all forms of system administration, but I had no trouble setting it up on my host. I've got it configured to update its feeds one per hour from 6AM to 8PM. It just does its thing, and works fine on both desktop and mobile.

  7. chatgpt-shell

    A multi-llm Emacs shell (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Kagi, Ollama, Perplexity) + editing integrations

    On the blogging side, I’m doing my bit for the web and built a new service minus the yucky bits of modern web (tracking, ads, paywalls, bloat…) https://lmno.lol does rss too. Full content of course.

    For example, my blog https://lmno.lol/alvaro and https://lmno.lol/alvaro/feed

  8. nunti

  9. Nutrient

    Nutrient - The #1 PDF SDK Library. Bad PDFs = bad UX. Slow load times, broken annotations, clunky UX frustrates users. Nutrient’s PDF SDKs gives seamless document experiences, fast rendering, annotations, real-time collaboration, 100+ features. Used by 10K+ devs, serving ~half a billion users worldwide. Explore the SDK for free.

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  10. motherfucking-rss-reader

    A basic RSS reader, in the spirit of the motherfucking websites.

    I agree. That’s why I created the simplest possible RSS reader[1]. I use it daily, but so far I’m the only user :D.

    [1]: https://motherfuckingrssreader.com/

  11. OldTwitter

    Extension to return old Twitter layout from 2015 / 2018.

    https://github.com/dimdenGD/OldTwitter

    Works fine. Reverse chronological sorting with just who you follow.

    For automated... apart from self host RSS options or nitter instance, neither of which I've tried...

    For semi automated I have a manual but not too laborious google sheet:

  12. copycat

    🌳 Copy content from web powerful than ever before. (by BlackGlory)

    Github: https://github.com/BlackGlory/copycat

    TLDR workflow:

    1. open "old" twitter

  13. duckduckgo-locales

    Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

    Does the world need another RSS reader/mousetrap? We already have so many.

    https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=rss+readers

    What is your friend's idea to revolutionize with their new reader?

  14. crawler-buddy

    Crawling framework

    I sometimes struggled domains that incorrectly set up RSS feeds. Some were blocked behind some walled gardens. Sometimes 403 status was returned.

    While tiny tiny RSS is nice, I also wrote interface to read URLs from the net. https://github.com/rumca-js/crawler-buddy

    This gives me clean data of web page, title, description, etc, which I can further integrate into my own RSS reader.

  15. RSS-to-Telegram-Bot

    A Telegram RSS bot that cares about your reading experience

    Same! I'm creating telegram channels for topics using https://github.com/Rongronggg9/RSS-to-Telegram-Bot

    That's how I found out about this post https://t.me/best_hn/99

  16. feedmaker

    Quickly generate an RSS feed from any website

    I love RSS, but I often want to create a feed from websites that don’t offer RSS support (or the right features). So I built a little web service that, given a URL and a CSS selector, returns an RSS feed of those items. Figured it might be useful for others too.

    Code -> https://github.com/kevinschaul/feedmaker

  17. SaaSHub

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