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Ask HN: Anyone uses Feed aggregator anymore?

by imirzadeh on 2/19/23, 11:41 AM with 1 comments

I have always used feed aggregators/readers to keep up with the news.

I used to use Feedly up to 5 years ago. But then it really started to bother me because I had no control over my feed.

So, for the past 5 years, as a side project, I have been working on a good feed reader app with multiple iterations. The first version was a wrapper on top of Feedly API, the second one was an RSS reader from scratch, and the latest one is a full-featured one that supports many sources (RSS/Twitter/Reddit/Youtube/Medium/Newsletters in the same feed).

I have been using/improving the latest version on a daily basis for the past year and I really thought it's awesome.

So I polished it to share with friends (https://mofeed.news) but it seems like no one is interested and they don't care about how they get their news.

I'm okay with this since I wanted it for myself anyways. It's just odd to me that my friends are not interested.

Now I'm very curious if Feed aggregators are dead or not. So I appreciate your opinion :)

  • by 082349872349872 on 2/19/23, 12:05 PM

    not dead: I recently switched to newsboat from manual surfing and am very happy with the time saved.