I'm making an RSS reader
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Why am I making an RSS reader? I don't know. There are a thousand RSS readers out there already, and they all read RSS feeds, but none of them work the way I'd like them to. So I'm making my own.
It's obviously a terrible idea. So why do it?
Mostly for fun.
There are all sorts of interesting things being published on the web every day, but they're kind of all over the place.
I enjoy sitting down on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and an hour to myself, but I don't enjoy opening my email inbox to read a newsletter, only to get sidetracked by 5 new emails that I should probably respond to. I don't enjoy wrestling my RSS app, which hasn't been updated in about 10 years and has a horrible reading experience. Reading links from Twitter gets me lost down an algorithm hole. YouTube doesn't even show me new videos from people I'm subscribed to.
I wish it were just all in one place. Without all the noise and engagement farming. Just a quiet little spot where I could catch up with things I care about.
That's what I'm making.
I'm calling it Alcove.
If you want to follow along with this questionable side project of undefined scope, I'm sharing live updates of progress on Twitter, here.
There's a more than half-decent chance of a disastrous outcome.
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Why am I making an RSS reader? I don't know. There are a thousand RSS readers out there already, and they all read RSS feeds, but none of them work the way I'd like them to. So I'm making my own.
It's obviously a terrible idea. So why do it?
Mostly for fun.
There are all sorts of interesting things being published on the web every day, but they're kind of all over the place.
I enjoy sitting down on a Sunday morning with a cup of coffee and an hour to myself, but I don't enjoy opening my email inbox to read a newsletter, only to get sidetracked by 5 new emails that I should probably respond to. I don't enjoy wrestling my RSS app, which hasn't been updated in about 10 years and has a horrible reading experience. Reading links from Twitter gets me lost down an algorithm hole. YouTube doesn't even show me new videos from people I'm subscribed to.
I wish it were just all in one place. Without all the noise and engagement farming. Just a quiet little spot where I could catch up with things I care about.
That's what I'm making.
I'm calling it Alcove.
If you want to follow along with this questionable side project of undefined scope, I'm sharing live updates of progress on Twitter, here.
There's a more than half-decent chance of a disastrous outcome.
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@martind yikes
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Looks like cold weather on the way!!
