Show HN: WyrmRSS – a self-hosted RSS reader with inline YouTube

I'm a software engineer and have been working on this for a couple of months, for fun, and thought I'd share it. If you try it, let me know, I'd be stoked!

I was inspired by a friend who wanted to escape the algorithms and had built a small, private reader for himself. He wasn't sure he'd ever release it, so I built my own.

It's yet another self-hosted RSS reader, I know. I've been trying to build things like inline YouTube (with filters to drop Shorts and live streams) and webhooks into the core, rather than as add-ons the way some other readers handle them. I mostly built it to learn and to have a version that works the way I like. It's not complete yet and it's missing some features I deem important (listed on the README). So it's a WIP.

AI disclosure: the backend is mostly hand-written — I used an LLM for boilerplate, tests, and some refactoring, and leaned on it more for the frontend since that's not my strong area. I have, however, reviewed and understand every line I've merged.

Show HN: WyrmRSS – a self-hosted RSS reader with inline YouTube
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Nice work. The YouTube inline support with Shorts filtering is the detail that stands out to me — subscriptions-as-RSS is one of the last ways to follow creators chronologically, without the recommendation layer deciding for you. I come from the media/creator side and it's interesting how "just show me what I subscribed to, in order" went from default behavior to a feature you have to self-host. Curious: do you pull YouTube via the classic channel RSS feeds, or the API? The RSS feeds don't distinguish Shorts from regular uploads, so I'm wondering how you filter them.