Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds
Partially inspired by recent discussions on HN and other places. I've made a single-focus site to introduce your friends/colleagues/neighbours/family to RSS and web feeds. https://www.youneedfeeds.com/ The site is meant to give the elevator pitch for feeds, show a newbie what feeds are and how to use them, set them up with a reader, and give them some nice starter content if they want it. So much tastemaking and newsmaking power is concentrated in the hands of Facebook/Reddit/Twitter, but I'm convinced it's because much of the general populace doesn't…
You Need Feeds is a educational site designed to introduce people to RSS and web feeds. It explains what feeds are, how to use them, helps users set up a feed reader, and provides curated starter content. The site… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. You Need Feeds – Introduce friends/family/workmates to RSS and webfeeds launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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RSS feeds for arbitrary websites, using CSS selectors.
2021 · feed-me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.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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Feeds Mage▲348Discover great blogs lost in your Twitter timeline
2021 · mrplayas.com · 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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I created this chrome extension for myself where I track my own behavior locally and recommend myself content from platforms I want content from (youtube/twitter/quora/etc) in a feed. I made it public just in case anyone else was interested. I would rather have control over my own algorithm and own the data. Also, it gives me flexibility. Turns out I do like these feeds just not when I don't own it haha. Let me know what you think of my implementation?
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · linklonk.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on creating threaded blog posts using RSS feeds. Something similar to Twitter but kind of worse and better in its own way. I had an idea that if users are allowed to embed the threads to their posts, it acts like a simple comment section. Try it out, no accounts required.
2024 · blog.bhread.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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Cupfeed 2.0▲63The new way to read your news and RSS feeds on iOS and macOS
2022 · cupfeed.app · its alternatives →
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Feedlivery▲69One email every week with posts from the feeds you follow
2019 · feedlivery.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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myAlgorithm▲63A personal recommendation feed built in your browser
2022 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, Two things inspired me to build this: Andrej Karpathy recently talked about going back to RSS feeds — "higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke" (https://x.com/karpathy/status/2018043254986703167). Around the same time, Marc Andreessen shared his information source: 25% X, 25% podcasts with practitioners, 25% conversations with AI, 25% old books (https://x.com/pmarca/status/2030949039345467570). This made me realize how much it matters to control what you let in. But I've used to the feed-style reading habit…
Apr 2026 · its alternatives →
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2018 · feedbridge.notmyhostna.me · its alternatives →
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2021 · dfeed.net · its alternatives →
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Discover and read rss feeds free no signup required
2024 · rssfeed.bookllo.com · its alternatives →
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2010 · dambr.com · its alternatives →
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Hi all, since there are lots of discussions happening about news consumption, I would like to show you a project that I am working on - Feedpresso. https://www.feedpresso.com/ It focuses on content for techies and entrepreneurs so you can expect to get some interesting stuff right away. However, it is not a regular RSS reader - it heavily relies on algos to find exciting stories based on your reading history, from your sources. Also, it includes some abstractions over sources to make using RSS more natural. Give it a try. If there is an interest, I would gladly share some…
2018 · its alternatives →
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I stopped using Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok etc long back for various reasons. But that left me wanting a simple feed of interesting content because I think that really has some value. So I built one for myself using public APIs and free datasets. I have been using it for couple years now. Thought I should share it wth HN, because why not. Here’s how it works: every few minutes, a cron job fetches content from various APIs and datasets and populates a database table ‘cards’. When you open feedium.app, you are shown some cards from that table chosen randomly. That’s it. :)
2022 · feedium.app · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I've been building a less bad way to share photos and videos out to friends and family: https://vzg.me The motivation is personal for me since... 1. I'm not comfortable using Facebook properties 2. Group SMS/email gets out of control with more than a few recipients 3. I don't want to convince my friends and family to download a new app or figure out shared albums So I created a system that lets my network subscribe to individual people in my family and get updates via email, SMS, or RSS at the frequency of their choosing (immediate, daily, or weekly). Subscribers…
2020 · its alternatives →
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