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24 alternatives to OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds

Alternative search engines are neat, as are RSS feeds. OpenOrb is a self-hosted app which allows visitors to search over a list of blogs you love. If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs and not show you any sponsored content or machine-generated garbage (unless... you follow blogs written by machines?) Personal RSS feed readers can usually do this sort of thing, but RSS readers aren’t meant to be shared, so you can think of the search engine as a 'curated feed list as a public service'. I wrote a longer blog post about OpenOrb here:…

OpenOrb is a self-hosted search engine for Atom and RSS feeds that lets site owners create a searchable index of their favorite blogs. Visitors can search across a curated list of feeds without encountering sponsored… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. OpenOrb, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds launched in 2024; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    2019 · search.feedi.me · its alternatives →

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    The best RSS Search experience you can find. Contribute to davidesantangelo/dato.rss development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A modern RSS newsreader, powered by machine learning

    2021 · feedibus.app · its alternatives →

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    A search engine for RSS feeds 🗞️

    2019 · datorss.com · its alternatives →

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    Feedboard▲260

    Your favourite feeds in one place

    2024 · feedboard.app · its alternatives →

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    Hi, folks. As an RSS user, I tried Inoreader and Feedly, then ended up self-hosting a Miniflux instance on my homelab. A few months ago, I moved to another city and had to shut down my homelab for a long time, so I couldn't access my local miniflux. It was quite inconvenient. I decided to self-host my RSS aggregator on a tiny VPS or PaaS such as fly.io. However, Miniflux requires a PostgreSQL database, which may isn't suitable for a tiny VPS instance. So I built fusion with Golang and SQLite. It contains basic features such as Group, Bookmark, Search, Automatically feeds sniffing,…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Greetings, creator here! I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch. After seeing https://charm.sh a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app. Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and…

    2022 · lists.sh · its alternatives →

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    Hi all! Excited to share rss2newsletter after completing dev work for the initial release. The idea for this project came out of necessity, as I wanted to share my articles via email newsletter. I was looking for a super minimal, lightweight, and open source solution, and when none existed, I decided to create one. For any sizable number of email recipients, a popular platform like Mailchimp will easily cost you hundreds or even thousands per month in per-contact fees. rss2newsletter, on the other hand, allows you to use Amazon SES, so you can reach your audience at pennies on the dollar.…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This blog is dedicated to RSS-feeds, namely creating and optimizing RSS-feeds for your blog or website.

    2020 · datorss.com · its alternatives →

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    RSS/Atom feed reader for your desktop.

    2025 · rahuldshetty.github.io · its alternatives →

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    I developed a small tool to find RSS feeds for websites. You can try it out here: https://lighthouseapp.io/tools/feed-finder In >90% of cases the standard way of checking meta tags is enough to find the feeds. But my goal for this tool is that it finds feeds regardless if they're linked somewhere or not. That if this feed finder doesn't find a feed, no feed exists. It's a big goal and admittedly not there yet, but it does a few things that are a step in that direction. * Checks meta tags of parent pages (sometimes the article itself doesn't have the meta tag, but the main…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Free and open source feeds reader ☕

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Parse RSS, Atom and JSON feeds in Go. Contribute to mmcdole/gofeed development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Go Terminal Feed Reader. Contribute to Lallassu/gorss development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RSSence▲167

    Your modern RSS feed, reimagined.

    2025 · try.rssence.com · its alternatives →

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    Howdy! RSSfeedASAP scratches my own itch. I run a regional podcasting directory which gets dozens of messy submission for podcasts. Often they don't even include an xml file and me being a good samaritan I sometimes do the manual work and find it myself. I got tired of that manual work and decided to build a microapp. RSSfeedASAP is this app and I decided to release it in case someone else finds any use in it.

    2023 · rssfeedasap.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, maker here. It was a serious 4-6 months of effort to build this. I have never poured as much love, attention and detail into a project before. So I really appreciate you having a looksie! The homepage has a fresh list of articles every hour and is open to all. Still, I recommend signing up so you can add stuff to your reading list and follow blogs. My initial plan was to monetize this with subtle ads, but that didn't work out as the traffic to the site isn't nearly enough for that. That said, I have a fair bit invested in this and I need your help figuring out a way to make this…

    2023 · boredreading.com · its alternatives →

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    This blog is dedicated to RSS-feeds, namely creating and optimizing RSS-feeds for your blog or website.

    2021 · datorss.com · its alternatives →

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    A semi-minimal RSS reader written in ASP.NET Blazor - R4cc/Feedster

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    RSS search engine

    2021 · datorss.com · its alternatives →

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    Whenever new content is published, we'll send you a notification. Try it now by entering an RSS/Atom feed, YouTube channel or blog URL!

    2020 · feedsub.com · its alternatives →

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