Lighthouse RSS Reader (Omnivore alternative, free newsletter support)
Hi, I've been building Lighthouse for the better part of a year, and now seems to be a good opportunity to do a Show HN. Lighthouse is a RSS feed reader, and also supports subscribing to newsletters. It works really well for personal content curation, because differently from most readers, new content first arrives in the Lighthouse Inbox, where articles are either bookmarked (to move to library) or archived. The assumption is that even if you subscribed to a feed or newsletter, it doesn't mean you want to read everything they post. So an additional curation step helps keeping unwanted…
Lighthouse RSS Reader (Omnivore alternative, free newsletter support) launched on October 30, 2024 with 8 votes, #1,329 of 5,185 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
What it does
More than a feed reader, a content curation system to find the top articles of all sources
A ton of articles are published every day, but only a tiny fraction of them expand your knowledge. The rest is useless to you. Lighthouse helps finding that tiny fraction. Finding the right sources is often quite difficult. The set of preselected sources for different topics is a good starting point, and over time more sources can be discovered and added. The most reliable update mechanism are RSS feeds, but not every source provides them. To allow as many sources as possible, it's also possible to subscribe via newsletter and website. Usually only a fraction of the content a source publishes is interesting. The rest must be weeded out. The inbox exists to deal with that. It is a review…from lighthouseapp.io
In the maker’s words, at launch
Hi, I've been building Lighthouse for the better part of a year, and now seems to be a good opportunity to do a Show HN. Lighthouse is a RSS feed reader, and also supports subscribing to newsletters. It works really well for personal content curation, because differently from most readers, new content first arrives…
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