Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Pulsefeed builds a stream from your RSS feeds
Pulsefeed has been developed on and off in my spare time over the last 4 months, I'm finally happy with it's basic set of features, and was wondering what the Hacker News community thought? Thanks :)
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Pulsefeed builds a stream from your RSS feeds launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1SH
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- 2IM
2016 · podcastrank.co · its alternatives →
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Pulse▲90Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted
Mar 2026 · demo.pulse.kartikeybhardwaj.com · its alternatives →
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TL;DR▲199I love Hacker News but I rarely have time to read full articles / comments, so I built a simple site to summarize the top posts & comments to make it easier to get a big picture. A few implementation details: - It pulls the top stories from the HN Firebase API (`/v0/topstories`) - Filters stories with >200 points - Uses Claude Sonnet for post + comment summaries - Tries to capture the sentiment of the comments (still working on improving this) - Refreshes both posts + summaries hourly It has already helped me I hope it helps you! Please let me know if you have any feedback --…
2025 · tl-dr.tv · its alternatives →
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RSS Brain▲139I wrote an RSS reader called RSS Brain recently. The motivate is the current RSS readers either don't sort articles by priority, which makes it hard to read posts from HackerNews and Reddit, or sort it with some "smart" algorithm which I don't trust. I also like the Google News feature that can show related story from different source, but the sources are not configurable and the algorithm is not transparent either. So with RSS Brain, I implemented these features: * Recommend related articles from the feeds of your choice. It's backed by ElasticSearch and the algorithm is described on RSS…
2022 · rssbrain.com · 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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Hi yall! I've been using hacker news for a while but one of the things I started wanting recently was the ability to have alerts for any stories I post. The thing that pushed me over the edge was Hackclub's shipwrecked https://shipwrecked.hackclub.com/ (hackathon in the boston bay for anyone that can make 4 projects over the summer and get at least one of them to go viral). One of the options for "going viral" was to get to the front page of hacker news but I was constantly scared that I would miss it getting on there lol so I whipped up a quick slackbot to send alerts to a…
2025 · hn.dunkirk.sh · its alternatives →
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Twitch Pulse▲82An easier way to engage with each other on Twitch
2017 · blog.twitch.tv · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I'm excited to share a tool I've been working on - a native Hacker News reader built with Rust and egui. Here's a screenshot: https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader/blob/main/s.... As a daily HN reader, I've always struggled with keeping track of interesting posts I want to read later. Browser tabs pile up, bookmarks get forgotten, and I lose track of what I've already read. I needed a way to: 1. Browse HN efficiently (across all sections - hot, new, show, ask, jobs, best) 2. Quickly mark posts as "todo" for later reading 3. Mark posts as…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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AnythingFeed▲26Build your news feed with curated sources from the community
2025 · its alternatives →
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Campfiree▲14I built Campfiree because I got tired of platforms treating users as products. On Campfiree, users submit feature ideas and vote on them weekly. Moderation is handled by randomly selected community juries, no corporate team deciding what's acceptable. It's free with ads or $7/year without (free during beta). We have 55 users so far and ship features every week based on what the community votes for. I'd love honest feedback on the model and the product.
2025 · campfiree.com · its alternatives →
- 12HW
2014 · goroost.com · its alternatives →
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Former investigative reporter turned developer. I built a simple breaking-news monitor because tracking events across platforms is a mess now that Twitter’s unreliable. Bluesky is the backbone (a fraction of twitter, but still lots of journalists and OSINT folks), plus RSS, Telegram, Reddit, YouTube and Mastodon. Everything is one chronological feed with no algorithm, clear source labels, and lightweight activity detection when a region spikes above baseline (frequency math, not LLMs). But we do have a (hopefully non-obtrusive) AI-generated recent/post summary. Been building for a…
Feb 2026 · news-alert-eta.vercel.app · its alternatives →
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- 15HN
We're still in private beta but would love to give more invites and get feedback.
2011 · its alternatives →
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Custom, realtime RSS feeds for Hacker News. Contribute to edavis/hnrss development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 17HC
A year and a half after I published https://HackYourNews.com, I've rewritten it to be neater and added support for more news sources. HackYourNews.com v1 had a great response on HN [1] and consistently sees ~2k weekly unique visitors. There were many long-standing requests that I wanted to fulfill (thanks for your patience!): a proper dark mode, correct rendering on mobile devices, and more cogent summaries. This rewrite is the result. gpt-4o-mini reduces the cost of summarization to an absurd degree, so it's now sustainable to keep this free service going! Someday, I hope to use…
2025 · its alternatives →
- 18HC
One year after I published https://HackYourNews.com, I've rewritten it to be fully client-side and added support for a few more news sources via RSS feeds. Though HackYourNews.com v1 had a great response on HN [1] and consistently had ~2k weekly unique visitors, I couldn't figure out how to sustain the site, and I didn't want to gate access to it. There were also many long-standing requests that I wanted to fulfill (thanks for your patience!): a proper auto-detected dark mode, mobile device support, and bulleted summaries. This rewrite is the result. The browser reads the contents…
2024 · its alternatives →
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2 months ago I launched a service that sends email alerts when you get a new comment/reply on Hacker News. I've only been able to acquire 6 users since releasing it (°ー°〃) I tried promoting it here (duuh), Reddit, and LinkedIn. Optimized it for SEO (ranking 3rd on my target keywords). All with limited success. So I've decided to open-source it! Links to... - frontend: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/hackernewsalerts-fronten... - backend: https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/hackernewsalerts-backend I'm still using it for myself, since there's…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 20HN
This is a little project I have been working on that lets you listen to Hacker News. Please note that is SERIOUSLY BETA. http://hackernewsradio.com
2011 · hackernewsradio.com · its alternatives →
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I’m proud to announce that we have acquired Pulse, an incredible team that has developed some truly novel machine learning approaches to help streamline the digital workplace. We’re incredibly excited to bring their expertise into our organization. They will spearhead our efforts in applied ethical
2019 · holopod.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! I’m a developer from Brisbane, Australia, and I present to you: hackernews.life! The Hacker News visualisation that no-one asked for; the exuberant child of its minimalist namesake It’s detail rich – notice immediately which stories are gaining traction, which ones are generating conversation, which ones have gone toxic It’s fully time travelable – use the slider to go backwards and forwards in time; watch stories and comments grow, fight for rank, and die It’s fully keyboard navigable – using just the arrow keys you can skim through stories and top level comments; hit enter at any…
2025 · hackernews.life · its alternatives →
- 23WP
I built a little tool that lets you subscribe to posts, comments and users and get notified when they change. It needs an account on val.town, but that's about it. Also note, for top stories it can get quite chaotic.
Apr 2026 · hn-push.val.run · its alternatives →
- 24IN
I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com
2011 · dailyhn.com · its alternatives →
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