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Looking to sell the remainder of my Inoreader subscription. Expires on May 17, 2027. DM me for details. I'll simply replace my email with your email address, ensure confirmation and send a reset password.
Happy to answer any questions or provide screenshots.
submitted by /u/adtdePhiHi everyone,
Over the last few years I've become increasingly frustrated with algorithm-driven feeds. Most apps decide what should appear first, what gets promoted, and what content is "recommended" to me.
I wanted something simpler:
Just the news sources, blogs, websites and podcasts that I choose
So I started to build my own Android app called Reader
Some of the things it supports:
RSS feeds and podcast in one app
Discover news sources and podcasts
Add RSS feeds manually
Import feeds with OPML
Keyword filtering
Full article reading inside the app
Background podcast playback
Light & dark themes
No algorithmic recommendations
The goal isnt to maximize engagement, the goal is tho give users full control over what they read and listen to.
I'm currently a solo developer and the app only has a small user base, so id really appreciate feedback from RSS users, podcast listeners and anyone interested in a less algorithm-driven experience
What features would you consider essential in an RSS reader today?
Check it out:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.esaldanadev.reader
Thanks a lot!
submitted by /u/esaldanadevI wrote a long-ish reply on Reddit about coding with AI. Not all AI is slop. Vibe coders should be honest with themselves and others.
I have been generating private podcast feeds and learned that “valid XML” is only the first layer of compatibility. A feed can pass a validator and still behave strangely when a client refreshes, resumes an episode, or compares old and new items.
This is the checklist I now work through:
• Keep each item’s GUID stable forever. Changing it makes clients treat an edited episode as a brand-new episode.
• Keep enclosure URLs stable when the underlying episode has not changed. Use a new URL intentionally when the media really is a new revision.
• Include the enclosure length and a correct MIME type. Do not guess audio/mpeg for every file.
• Use absolute URLs everywhere a client must fetch something, including artwork and enclosures.
• Emit pubDate in an RFC 822-compatible format and keep time zones explicit.
• Support both common iTunes duration shapes. Some feeds use total seconds, while others use HH:MM:SS.
• Escape XML attribute values separately from element text. An ampersand inside an enclosure URL can break a feed in a way that is easy to miss when inspecting it visually.
• Put rich descriptions through one deliberate HTML path. Either escape the markup as text or wrap it correctly in CDATA. Mixing approaches produces double-escaped descriptions.
• Preserve useful podcast namespaces and tags when transforming an existing feed. Dropping unknown-but-valid metadata can remove chapters, transcripts, funding links, or alternate enclosures.
• Keep item ordering deterministic. A refresh should not reshuffle old episodes simply because unrelated metadata changed.
• Serve the media with GET, HEAD, byte ranges, Content-Length, and the correct Content-Type. Feed correctness and enclosure-server correctness are one compatibility problem.
• Add ETag or Last-Modified to the feed response so clients can refresh efficiently and receive 304 when nothing changed.
• Test refresh, seek, resume, artwork, and an edited episode in more than one client. Initial subscription is the easiest path and catches the fewest problems.
The big lesson for me was that podcast RSS is a long-lived identity contract, not just a current XML document. Stable IDs and predictable HTTP behavior matter as much as the tags.
What compatibility detail have you found that validators rarely warn about?
submitted by /u/robert_krHighlighting Dave Winer's comment on the issue of federating rss.chat servers,
Yes, use OPML, create a list of servers. That's what software that wants to work with federations will require as input.
We all know the vibecoding wave is crazy, but exactly how crazy?
The pace has increased a lot: from 3 a month in 2020 to 25 new applications a month this year. The busiest month is July 2026 (not even over when I ran the analysis yesterday), with 36 applications already.
I made a graph, and it's quite telling: See the graph here
If you want to dig into which apps have been created,Here is the full excel file
I made deduplication, so no app is counted twice.
And this is just one subreddit, imagine the rest of Reddit. (I might gather the data for other subs too, it's quite fun.)
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To be clear, I'm not criticizing vibecoders. I built an RSS app myself (see the irony here 😂 ), hugin.news, I love it and I use it everyday. And as I just checked, I'm quite proud it's the only one that can connect directly to your claude/chatGPT with MCP to make your news digest.
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I made some very personal reflections with this data :
1 ) How much RSS apps do we need ? I would say about 20 are enough to cover every use case. So 95% of apps won't have a meaningful number of users.
And let's be honest the apps people use are mostly Big Tech. If you want to have visibility in the app business you need a very high marketing budget and a very good marketing strategy.
2) If you code on your free time, like evenings week ends holidays and so, you will NEVER make money out of it. Just don't believe in it and don't put efforts or money in marketing.
You can still do it for pleasure, or to learn vibecoding for something you may need at work one day.
But don't expect to you find users, even for free, people just don't care about sloppy vibecoded apps, do it for fun if you enjoy it.
3) If you are a full-time vibecoder, you have better chance of building an original, usefull, well designed product, but the odds of making a salary out of it are extremely slim.
In any case you can look the data I shared to see if your app already exists or if you have a genuine new idea.
You'll probably earn a lot more with a real job at a well-funded company, but maybe companies will start valuing vibecoding skills in the future, who knows.
4) There is kind of a huge industry that wants you to believe you can vibecode your way to money : AI providers (Cursor, Claude...), cloud services (AWS, Google cloud...), ads providers (Google ads...) and plenty of other layers of the stack. I think they're the ones actually making money by taking ours and wasting our time for that.
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What do you think of this data ?
submitted by /u/Ok-Split-9812Full disclosure - I’m the developer
Some of its key features:
A lot of people offer their RSS readers, but very few people are willing to test them. So here's what I'm proposing: if you pay me, I'll test your RSS reader. $10 seems reasonable to me.
submitted by /u/AdImpressive7394Hi everyone!
I built an open-source RSS reader desktop app with some unique features for privacy and usability.
**Features:**
- DNS-over-HTTPS to bypass censorship/restrictions
- YouTube video playback within the app
- Dual UI themes (Reddit & Telegram style)
- 100% local privacy (SQLite, no external data)
- Smart caching for faster loading
**Built with:** Python 3.8+, Tkinter, VLC, SQLite
**GitHub:** https://github.com/erfan138057/rss-reader-app
**Download EXE:** https://github.com/erfan138057/rss-reader-app/releases/latest
MIT License. I'd love to hear your feedback and suggestions!
submitted by /u/Erfan138057Highly requested by testers, the iPad version of Feedler is now available on TestFlight!
An all-new iPad experience in version 1.6
- Three-column layout: feeds sidebar, article list and a persistent reading pane, with smooth column animations and a full-screen reading mode
- Redesigned account hub in the sidebar, with an overview of the synchronization status
- Pull up or down at the end of an article to jump to the next or previous one, with a brand-new indicator animation (now on iPhone too)
- Info sheets and popovers properly sized for the big screen
- Display settings are now stored per device, so your iPad and iPhone can each keep their own setup
- iCloud backup will automatically restore all your accounts (except Local RSS) your created on your iPhone
Note: Feedler also runs better on the Mac too, but it isn't fully optimized yet, that's coming in a future update.
As always, great care has been taken with the design, user experience, and smooth animations.
You'll also find all the features that have made the iOS app unique and smart, its powerful and customizable in-house parser, a lot of customization options, and AI-powered summaries.
TestFlight: https://testflight.apple.com/join/6Hs73zXe
You can find more details about the app in the first Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/rss/comments/1uksjbu/feedler_the_smart_rss_reader_in_open_beta/
Feel free to give it a try (it's free) and send me your feedback
submitted by /u/FeedlerAppThe first public build of uRSS for the Mac is available for testing for brave RSS aficionados.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/2x7p7ZCZ
The link will require you to download TestFlight, which will then let you download uRSS to your Mac. This is the first version of uRSS on any platform that offers integration with 3rd party services - FeedBin, Newsblur, FreshRSS (more coming) in addition to local feeds.
Also new to the app (first on any platform), is a new onboarding flow, that will give you the option of either curating feeds yourself or just choosing topics you enjoy and picking feeds for you.
All feedback can be shared thru TestFlight.
Cheers!
submitted by /u/TedTheDevI’ve updated my feedland account with feeds about rss
Scour
Lemmy
Reddit
Hacker news
When I post on here should it appear on
https://demo.rss.chat/
?
Quick update on Newsairy, the iCloud-native RSS reader I've been building. Version 1.11 adds a full-text reading mode: when a feed only sends the first paragraph, one tap fetches the whole article and shows it in your own theme, font and text size - no browser, no cookie banners. It all happens on your device: Newsairy fetches the page, keeps the words, and throws the rest away.
For anyone who hasn't come across it: Newsairy syncs over iCloud across iPhone, iPad and Mac, and Pro adds sync with TheOldReader, Miniflux, FreshRSS, Feedbin and Inoreader. One-time purchase, no subscription, no ads, no tracking.
Small heads-up: Newsairy is part of Indie App Sales this week, so Pro is 33% off (until 30 July) if you've been meaning to try it. Either way, I'm always open to feature suggestions.
App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/newsairy/id6760046985
Indie App Sales: https://indieappsales.com
submitted by /u/QebAppsHello
Test post from
https://rsc.rmdes.be/
Article URL: https://johnjohnston.info/blog/rss-chat/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49023374
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Article URL: https://vaadin.com/blog/i-let-ai-rebuild-a-dead-java-desktop-app-for-the-web.-heres-where-it-broke
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48991297
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Article URL: https://github.com/ibaaj/distillfeed
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48972947
Points: 1
# Comments: 0
Article URL: https://textcaster.app
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48967220
Points: 12
# Comments: 2
Article URL: https://fedi.tips/following-mastodon-and-fediverse-accounts-through-rss/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48948757
Points: 3
# Comments: 0
Article URL: https://antoniosantos.io/your-rss-reader-is-robbing-you/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916537
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
Article URL: https://unattributed.cc/the-state-of-rss-feed-readers
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48916506
Points: 4
# Comments: 1
Article URL: https://sprinklz.io/feed/home
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48911998
Points: 16
# Comments: 11
Article URL: https://coywolf.com/news/social-media/you-can-now-chat-using-rss-well-sort-of/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48901500
Points: 5
# Comments: 0
Article URL: http://scripting.com/2026/07/10/161133.html
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48863960
Points: 8
# Comments: 0
Article URL: https://feeds.software
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48859557
Points: 2
# Comments: 0
Article URL: https://delphinightmares.substack.com/p/porting-from-delphi-to-js-will-unalive
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48826432
Points: 3
# Comments: 1
Article URL: http://rsshose.com
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48812477
Points: 2
# Comments: 2
Article URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/hate-algorithm-rss-one-tools-youve-been-looking
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48811841
Points: 22
# Comments: 2
Though I don’t use reddit regularly anymore, there are a few subreddits that I need regular updates from. I typically use the method of adding “.rss” to the end of the subreddit URL. This doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore. I was wondering whether or not this is a client-side issue. In the linked post, people seem to be talking as if their feeds are still working at this point. Is this the case for anyone here? Thanks!
