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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…
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…
Google Reader is an atrocious experience, albeit one that probably has a couple of useful apps, and Bloglines is a joke. Fever requires you to roll your own with all the hassle and risk it entails, but a paid, hosted service sounds like a great way to go about it in the way that pinboard.in did compared to del.icio.us.
Just think about it, and if you continue with a free model, you can always consider pivoting, if you find that the current model isn't sustainable. Of course, that means that this is a full-time endeavour, which may or may not fit into your lives.
The current state of the project reminds me of Instapaper in its infancy. It will be interesting to follow you.
On iOS 5: The design is nice. Don't show the entire story when you visit one of the categories. Just show headlines. It rendered terribly slowly, scrolling was jerky, and page navigation was completely unresponsive. Eventually the browser just crashed. The first category I visited was Science. It showed science stuff. The next category I visited was Film. It also showed science stuff.
1. Formatting is FUBARed when zooming in (Chrome browser). 2. OPML import? Already have a set of RSS subscriptions, need to be able to import existing feed list, don't wish to reenter all these in… /goodluck on the venture.
In edit subscriptions you can do an OPML import. I had the same first thought. What is broken though is they don't seem to support folders.
Though I do not expect it to work after importing… …I have A LOT of feeds -- I see the subscription titles showing but it seems to be stuck on "refresh" right now…
Hi everyone. We've been away from our computers for a few hours but wow, thanks for the feedback (good and bad). We're going to go through all of your comments (and those that have been submitted by email and Twitter) and prioritize our efforts. We know there are still lots of things that need improving (handling lots of feeds, how new items are displayed, organizing feeds, etc) - we'll do our best to get to these as…
It's a great start. Keep rocking it.
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If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late Sort of OT, but I'm not sure this is really broadly useful advice. In the world of iOS apps, for instance, that first impression is often the only one you'll get before people move on. Hard to say which is the correct approach for an app like this but sometimes it pays to polish the hell out of 1.0 instead.
Apple does make iterating your MVP harder. Not impossible, just harder. But don't forget that MVP is primarily a tool for learning with the least amount of effort. Not less. So, if you are making something nobody wants, why make it very polished? You will just waste more time learning this fact. Time that could be used changing the product/trying something new entirely. And even on app store: you can iterate with dif…
It's a pretty app that looks like it's taken a lot of design inspiration from Google Reader. Which is a good thing, I think they nailed it in terms of UI. That said, I was really hoping you'd have your own sharing mechanism. The major thing Google Reader lost in the transition was the ability to share and comment in a unified manner - having to go to Twitter or Facebook to read comments on something you shared elsewh…
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sharing, comments, bookmarklet for non-rss content.
Float (float.com) has an interesting idea of removing everything except content from facebook/twitter/etc, which I like, but they are still missing a usable webapp and the aforementioned features.
I'm currently using Google Reader to keep track of things for me. I sync it up with iReadG on my iPhone and then I scan through headlines on my iPhone and star the ones I'm interested in reading. I do this while I'm out and about and need to kill some time while waiting on things in life to happen. Just scanning headlines from HN, Slashdot and TechCrunch usually fills all my mobile downtime.
Then when I get back to the computer I go through the star items and read them, unstarring them as I go.
Your interface would be nice if I could work it into my workflow but it doesn't look setup for that.