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Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by sontek »

Would be nice if you didn't remove the session id from the URL. I would like to bookmark the URL so I don't have to keep the e-mail in my inbox.

Also, frictionless use is cool and all but it would be nice if I could just create a username and password so I know I'll always have access to my feeds.

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by voidfiles »

rohitarondekar wrote: post #35
voidfiles wrote: post #31

RSS isn't ever going to be a big deal. If you are thinking in terms of market size it's never going to be really big. Facebook, and Google+ have both taken the subscription model in a direction that is more consumer friendly. If you accept that premise, you are building a product for informed, longish-term computer users, and you are treating them like they are beginners. If my intrest was piqued by RSS I probably al…

Fair point. But if this supported adding and managing feeds of my choice I would certainly give it a try. I'm guessing that this is a test of their reader and hence an MVP. P.S I currently use Google Reader and am looking for alternatives.

I agree, but it's still missing folders. Oh, and this is something I forgot in my first point, where is the ecosystem. It's a nice new RSS reader, but it's web only. I use a couple different clients in connection with Google Reader. These guys are starting with nothing.

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by gorbachev »

Great start.

However, as a heavy RSS user, an MVP isn't gonna cut it for me.

Couple of specific things are going to prevent me from using your product:

1. Your UI shows way too few feed items on a page. Compared to Google Reader, for example, you display maybe 30% as much content on a single page. That makes reading RSS feeds slow on your product.

2. There is no ability to group RSS feeds in any way. I'm not a single interest kinda of a person, so my RSS subscriptions contain all kinds of content. I don't read all that content the same way, and I don't feel like reading some of the content all the time.

I like the filtering capability you have on the feeds. This is something I've been missing for some time. I wish you'd expand it from simple keywords to maybe regular expression based. Look into how killfiles in Usenet clients used to work for inspiration maybe.

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by tlow »

Subscription packs are the best part of your idea so far. I suggest you keep them, but spend some time thinking about who your target user is, how you'll tell them about how you'll provide them value, and how you'll provide them value.

Here are some questions I had:

1. what does a user expect to happen next when they click on a subscription pack?

2. why is your landing page dark while your app is light?

3. why isn't there an action when a user clicks "All your favorite websites in one place."

4. why isn't there a clearer call to action?

5. it seems like you're targeting users who don't currently use RSS at all, will they even understand what your product does?

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by guga31bb »

rohitarondekar wrote: post #35
voidfiles wrote: post #31

RSS isn't ever going to be a big deal. If you are thinking in terms of market size it's never going to be really big. Facebook, and Google+ have both taken the subscription model in a direction that is more consumer friendly. If you accept that premise, you are building a product for informed, longish-term computer users, and you are treating them like they are beginners. If my intrest was piqued by RSS I probably al…

Fair point. But if this supported adding and managing feeds of my choice I would certainly give it a try. I'm guessing that this is a test of their reader and hence an MVP. P.S I currently use Google Reader and am looking for alternatives.

Try newsblur: http://www.newsblur.com/

As discussed on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1834305

It has folders, hotkeys, and I think I like the layout more than Google Reader (I'm still in the early stages of switching over).

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by quanticle »

voidfiles wrote: post #31

RSS isn't ever going to be a big deal. If you are thinking in terms of market size it's never going to be really big. Facebook, and Google+ have both taken the subscription model in a direction that is more consumer friendly. If you accept that premise, you are building a product for informed, longish-term computer users, and you are treating them like they are beginners. If my intrest was piqued by RSS I probably al…

I'm definitely interested in switching RSS readers. I'm not a fan of the recent changes to Google reader, so a solid alternative would definitely be welcome. Like you, I'd be willing to pay to get a product that handled RSS really well.
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