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Re: Show HN: My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative

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Post by dstroot » Fri, Mar 15, 2013, 10:52 PM UTC

jbackus wrote: post #50

dstroot wrote: post #28

How are you guys processing the tweets to show the results? Would love to know more about that.

We're using Ruby, Sinatra, HTTParty, Twitter Search API, Postgres, and Unicorn on a Heroku instance. Basically requesting the page pulls recent tweets from twitter matching the search '#replacereader', those tweets are checked against the DB to prevent dupe counting or multiple votes from one account, and new votes are added accordingly. Vote counts along with our list of replacements are pulled from the database and…

THANKS!

Re: Show HN: My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative

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Post by carey » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 1:43 AM UTC

martinp wrote: post #65

jsmeaton wrote: post #26

Am I the only one who just wants a list of updated articles and possibly an unread count? I don't want social in my RSS. I don't want to "discover" feeds. I don't want to be told what to read. I don't want to follow people. For me, the whole point of RSS is that I find a site I like, I add it to my list, and I'm told when there's a new article. I've tried several alternatives in the last 24 hours, and most of them ig…

This is exactly what I want. I know what I want to read, I don't need some algorithm telling me what I might like. All my feeds are carefully chosen based on site reputation, article quality, journalism quality and my of course my interests. When I want a little bit of everything, I just browse HN (often from Reader).

I don’t know why the Reader on WordPress.com isn’t mentioned more often. It looks just right for a small, carefully chosen set of subscriptions.

Re: Show HN: My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative

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Post by rssident » Sat, Mar 16, 2013, 6:37 AM UTC

jsmeaton wrote: post #26

Am I the only one who just wants a list of updated articles and possibly an unread count? I don't want social in my RSS. I don't want to "discover" feeds. I don't want to be told what to read. I don't want to follow people. For me, the whole point of RSS is that I find a site I like, I add it to my list, and I'm told when there's a new article. I've tried several alternatives in the last 24 hours, and most of them ig…

Try http://rssident.com

I built it for many of the reasons you stated. I also wanted to be able to do specific kinds of search (All craigslist telecommute Java jobs in the US -- http://rssident.com/mash/?t=job&e=telecommute).

It still needs a lot of work but I plan to keep it relatively simple and useful.

Re: Show HN: My all-nighter project to find the best Google Reader alternative

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Post by fakeer » Mon, Mar 18, 2013, 8:33 AM UTC

jsmeaton wrote: post #63

fakeer wrote: post #54

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Exactly. I just don't see why dev(s) are not jumping at this opportunity. Though I saw one dev wishing luck to NewsBlur on twitter :-)

I'm not interested in making money from such a venture, I'm interested in a service I can use. If I have to write it myself though, I will. I'll be shopping for alternatives this weekend, and starting a github project if I find nothing that suits. There's got to be some people around here doing their own that would roughly align with what I'm after. And I'm happy to pay for such a thing. Should be a very interesting…

Well, sounds nice. Do keep us posted in case you start sth. Will see if I can contribute(or use).

My reference to jumping was that I like the ideas of Pinboard and the elk and there's no reason why one for feeds wouldn't work. Work (esp well crafted and made for others to use - many ppl) requires time and effort and I find it natural for this work/job to be a paying one to be able to sustain interest and enthusiasm.