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, a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds launched on April 22, 2024 with 259 votes, #178 of 4,347 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 2 years on.
In plain words
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 content or machine-generated material. Unlike personal RSS readers, OpenOrb is designed to be shared publicly, functioning as a community-curated feed directory. It's built for anyone wanting to offer a filtered, human-selected alternative to mainstream search engines.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
From the sources
A curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds.
In the maker’s words, at launch
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…
Does a similar job
all alternatives →- RSRSS Search Engine2019 · search.feedi.me · ▲192
A search engine based on RSS feed2022 · github.com · ▲134The best RSS Search experience you can find. Contribute to davidesantangelo/dato.rss development by creating an account on GitHub.
- AAAn alternative RSS reader and search engine for news and content2020 · newsandrumors.com · ▲86
I built a tiny-VPS friendly RSS aggregator and reader2024 · github.com · ▲187Hi, 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,…
More dev tools this month
the category →
open-source IDE for thoughtful software design. Contribute to devdotfast/whiteboard development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 28d ago · github.com
Contribute to reladraw/reladraw development by creating an account on GitHub.
Dev tools · 26d ago · github.com
OpenBot▲362Grok Bot alternative: free, local, open-source, multiplayer
Dev tools · 24d ago · openbot.run
Talanoa▲346Hi HN, I’m a fullstack developer, and honestly, I’ve lost count of how many side projects I’ve worked on over the years. But one idea kept coming back to me: a different kind of email client. It first came to me in 2014: “What if we could handle emails more like conversations?” Every year, I’d revisit this concept in my “Build Notes.” Ten years later, no one had built exactly what I had in mind — so I finally decided to do it myself. That’s how Talanoa was born. I wanted something focused on people, not timelines. I was tired of marking messages as unread just to remember to reply later, or…
Dev tools · 21d ago · talanoa.email
CoreSpeed▲332One MCP for everything your agents need: apps, memory, tools
Dev tools · 29d ago · corespeed.io
Source: Show HN post ↗ · launch text quoted in part
Launched alongside, April 2024
the whole month →
Supabase▲2,325The Postgres developer platform is now generally available
Dev tools · 2024 · supabase.com
Cal.com Platform▲1,601Build your pixel-perfect booking experience with Atoms
Dev tools · 2024 · cal.com
deco.cx 2.0▲1,078Build web apps 10x faster with Deno, JSX, TS & Tailwind
Dev tools · 2024 · decocms.com
