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Products that do what A Kick-ass Google reader replacement does

Hi Guys, We're been hard at work building SwarmIQ, a Google Reader replacement over the last several months. We would love to get feedback from the HN community. Do give us a whirl and let us know what's missing and what can be improved.

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    A social reader for ebooks, now on Android

    2015

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    In the last days I started to build a Google Reader replacement http://reader.is (also found this nice domain name). What do you think of it? For the moment it's just very simple you can add feeds and then read them aggregated or single.

    2013

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    hey Everyone, I built FeedRebel [ http://www.feedrebel.com ] partly because I needed a feed reader myself but mainly because it ties in nicely with an idea that I've been working on. For those of you that are still on the fence when it comes to choosing a Google Reader alternative, I would love it if you could give FeedRebel a try and let me know your thoughts. I realize that there are quite a few options out there already with some big launches yet to come. I look forward to your comments and thoughts. Thank you

    2013

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    Clear the clutter from your articles. Instantly.

    2016

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    https://www.bulletin.io My friend and I spent the last 4 months building the fastest, cleanest RSS reader we could. There are a lot of features to come, but for now, I think we have the best experience around. We'd love for you to check it out and give us your feedback. Tell us what features we should put it next.

    2013

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    I recently decided to try out Google Tasks as my only task management system, and while I find some things about the interface great, it really isn't suited for someone like me who has multiple lists with lots of elements on each. So, I whipped this together real fast and I can't imagine using Google Tasks without it anymore. I realized you might want it too, so I put it on the web. Enjoy :)

    2011 · gtasker.com

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    Sachsen134

    A reading app for App Store reviews

    2015

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    Everything that would be here is in the README. I hope this gets big, it has tons of potential.

    2013 · github.com

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    Hey everyone, I have spend some of my free time of the last year and a half working on a cool project: Readbo ( http://readbo.com ). I loved using Google Reader, but I always thought it wasn't being updated quickly enough, and wanted some new features. So I decided to create something that would be better than Google Reader and at the same time make Google Reader users happy. Readbo is an RSS reader, but it also has filters to filter out what you don't want to see. You can also aggregate Twitter and Facebook. I personally love this feature. Even if you don't use RSS reader's, having Facebook…

    2012

  11. 11AW

    Hey, I've made a pdf reader with ai assistance, you can quickly ask questions about the text and the images, and it will have context about all of your reading material so you can ask questions freely, try it now, I'm in open beta to find bug and get feedback. upcoming features: - Highlighting - Highlighting with Notes - Bibliography - Automatic Reference file opening - Improved UX and robustness currenlty alot of bugs so please let me know if you found any. feedback appreciated

    2025 · pdf-hub.com

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    I blew off a bunch of "serious" side work last month and built a tiny little embeddable editing tool that I've wanted to have for Ars Technica since, well, the beginning of internet time. It lets any random user make edit suggestions for writers/editors to consider and act on. I think it's pretty cool and it's gotten some good use over the last few weeks. Of note, it's uses a single-field signup form. Edit administration is currently email based, so all it needs is an email address to get people going. I'm sure I'm not the only person to ever do this, but I basically just turned it on one…

    2011

  14. 14BY

    I've been working on this in my spare time for the past few months, and in light of the news about Google Reader shutting down, I thought I'd announce this today: BlogRoll is meant to be an improved version of Google Reader with a tiled interface (which may not be everybody's cup of tea), but it works well for photo-focused sites like food and fashion blogs, and it handles other news sites and blogs quite well, similar to a newspaper-style layout As for people switching over from Google Reader, it can also automatically import your existing feeds (click the "Import from Google Reader" button…

    2013 · blogrollapp.com

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    Here it is: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T8R91jWhQK9t7IwQGngDDLFavJ2LTNtlntThgQPS0Uo/edit?usp=sharing Feel free to add articles to the suggestions section, and I will review them and add to the document! Any and all feedback is accepted!

    2015

  16. 16HM

    One year ago, I downloaded the news.arc code and decided that I would teach myself programming by building a better aggregator. At that time, I had some rudimentary HTML knowledge, and little FORTRAN under my belt. I knew that I wanted an aggregator that could support a wide range of submissions, and one that could scale without losing quality for the user. Hubski is what I have to show for my time and effort. The easiest way to describe Hubski is to say that it uses a commenting system akin to HN or Reddit, but uses a sharing scheme like Twitter. You have a personal feed comprised of the…

    2011

  17. 17TL

    I built this app because I really enjoyed "Pulse" but I felt it lacked a few things. I wanted a web-based version, I wanted my news articles grouped together by topic, and I wanted an easy way to share with other people. It is early in the site's life, so somethings are missing, including the critical mobile app. If you have any feedback to give, it would be appreciated!

    2011 · thread.ly

  18. 18BT

    Hi guys. I’m looking for some feedback from the great HN community. I just soft launched the beta version of my humble bookshelf application, bookqueue. I've been working on it as a pet project since 2007. The idea is having a place to track all books you have been reading and having some nice stats around it, with less focus in the social aspects. My own queue can be found here: http://bookqueue.net/caffo You can also create your own at http://bookqueue.net/ Thanks!

    2011

  19. 19WB

    Hey HN, After GPT-3 created waves in the tech industry, a lot of AI tools were emerging and with that, some AI website builders But the results seemed way too generic to us. It felt like the developers were rushing to catch the wave instead of building a proper tool We took our time, did months of RnD and finally came up with something better than what others in the market are doing. It’s got better design output. While it’s still in beta, I wanted to show HN what we did. Will appreciate the feedback when you guys try it out. Here is the link to signup for the beta:…

    2024 · dorik.com

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    Over three months ago, I posted my book on HN and got tremendous +ve reponse. I am happy to inform that I have published the book to leanpub as per the comments I got on HN itself! It is pay as you go model, and the minimum is $0 because I wanted to contribute back to the FOSS Community

    2016

  22. 22IG

    As an avid Google Reader user I was really disappointed with the reading experience on my iPhone. I felt that the existing apps seemed to be more interested in adding features and cramming as much text into a small space rather than improving the readability of my feed and helping me decide which articles interest me or not. So I created my own https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/go-rss/id579197528?ls=1&mt=8 I have a finite number of Promo Codes. So if you are an iPhone user and a Google Reader fan and want to check it out, email [email protected] and I'll send you one (as long as supplies…

    2012

  23. 23JA

    Hello! I built a web-app called JungleReader that lets you follow RSS, Mastodon, YouTube, Reddit, and random blogs, all in one place. I made JungleReader as a central place to follow the blogs and sites I like, which I otherwise often lose track of. My next project (which is WIP) is a web-app called JungleWriter where you can build a simple blog and export it for hosting. I love finding a good, free-standing blog, and hope to make it easier for people to read and write them. Feedback is appreciated, thanks :)

    2023 · zajungle.com

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    Just a small project I've been working on for the past few months. It has full read support (ask HN, best, comments) as well as search and the ability to post comments. Posting stories and Share Invocation are on the way with the next update. It's built using Python and qml, with the BlackBerry-py project Python entry point (https://bitbucket.org/microcode/blackberry-py) providing access to the builtin python interpreter on BB10. The app is completely free, and can be found here on BlackBerry World:…

    2014

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