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I made a super-simple, free RSS reader with companion Chrome extension

by lylo on 8/6/24, 5:19 PM with 0 comments

I’ve used a variety of RSS readers over the years and they never quite hit the mark for me, so I decided to start building my own.

https://feedgrab.net

It’s a very early PoC but fully functional. It’s a PWA (I use it mainly on mobile) and it has a companion Chrome extension for highlighting when the current page has an available feed (click to save, like Instapaper).

I plan to add some discovery features (once I have a critical mass of feed data). Right now the onboarding is poor, sorry.

Other things I plan to add:

* Download full articles when the RSS is truncated

* Safari and Firefox extension

* Mobile share sheet support

No idea how to monetise it other than increasing the refresh time (1 hour right now) and max feeds (250 right now). Maybe page saving too, like Instapaper. Other ideas welcome! :-)

Let me know what you think!