I genuinely think RSS is more relevant than ever in 2026.
There’s so much content online now, and RSS is still one of the few ways to say: these are the people and websites I actually want to hear from.
No algorithm trying to guess what else might keep me scrolling. If I follow soccer, I want soccer - not hockey, random influencers, or whatever else an algorithm wants to test on me.
I use RSS every day for work, hobbies, and keeping up with writers I like. And despite all the AI-generated noise, there are still plenty of people writing genuinely good articles on their own blogs (http://www.aaronsw.com/2002/feeds/pgessays.rss, https://daringfireball.net/feeds/main , https://simonwillison.net/atom/entries/ , https://pluralistic.net/feed/) among many others.
The one thing that always bothered me: if someone I care about publishes something, I usually won’t know until I remember to check my RSS app.
That’s basically why I built Hushread.
It keeps checking the sources you follow even while you’re asleep. Under the hood, I run a VPS with proxies that keeps polling the pages you follow. The moment it finds something new, if you’ve turned notifications on for that source, you get a push notification.
That’s it. No big AI pitch, no fluff. This was genuinely the problem I wanted solved for myself.
I’d love more actual RSS users to try it, so I’m giving away 50 Pro accounts ($14.99/year) to people who comment here.
No review or 5-star rating needed. I’d much rather hear what you genuinely like or hate about it.
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