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I'm interested in your decision process in picking Reliable and then Digital Ocean.
I wonder what Samuel's attitude towards taking external financing is. Because NewsBlur is having a hell of a momentum on Google Reader news (pun not intended).
Well now that he has a graph pointing up and to the right he can certainly raise money and collect developers as if they were Pokemon and play games with the valuation in the hopes that somebody Acquihires Newsblur or buys them for some opaque strategic reasons. Maybe Google will buy them! :) Edit: I kid, but that's actually a possibility in my mind and would be an ironic outcome. Maybe Facebook or Yahoo or somesuch…
If I were Palantir, I'd probably drop $250k/yr to run the World's Best RSS Reader for the kind of research analysts who become Palantir customers, and the kind of geeks who make awesome Palantir employees. There are maybe a hundred companies you could substitute for Palantir here.
Seriously ironic that both of the likely Reader successors are YC funded (Feedly and Newsblur)
I'm interested in your decision process in picking Reliable and then Digital Ocean.
Originally price, now price + API for deploying new instances. If you check out my fabfile.py script you'll see that I have EC2 setup and ready but I don't use it because it costs more, runs slower, and is a pain in the butt to maintain.
Do you have a API? I was building a news reader for iOS when !kaput! Google reader (I was in the middle of integrate it). Now I wonder what to do next. I love to support another "small" players like yours...
I tried out NewsBlur and sadly, Feedly seems leagues better.
Feedly turned me off because it has no open web implementation, it runs through the Chrome web store. Aside from some developer related plugins I refuse to use a completely superfluous wrapper around a website if I am on my PC.
I've tried Newsblur but it's just so "busy" (I know where my mouse is on the vertical axis thank you very much). I may warm to it, but I'll probably end up with something a little simpler. But I wish all the success in the world to conesus, a variety of small, customer focused, customer capitalized independent web service vendors is a good thing for all of us.
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This is something I'll be working on soon enough. There are many, many dependencies (not only for the web app, but there are three DBs that you have to have installed as prerequisites - mongo, postgres/mysql, and redis). The real problem with setting up your own instance of NewsBlur is that you'll have to do your own feed fetching. This is effectively what you're paying for when you pay for NewsBlur. Let me break it…
Does NB fetch feeds that have no new articles?
I tried out NewsBlur and sadly, Feedly seems leagues better.
I looked at Feedly and Newsblur last week as I look for my eventual Google Reader replacement. Feedly turned me off because it has no open web implementation, it runs through the Chrome web store. Aside from some developer related plugins I refuse to use a completely superfluous wrapper around a website if I am on my PC. I've tried Newsblur but it's just so "busy" (I know where my mouse is on the vertical axis thank…
I'd just like to point out that '$24/yr * high four-figures of paying costumers' with only one employee ensures NewsBlur will be around for a long time. :) This is the kind of single founder "life style" startup that VC's would paw-paw that is Doing It Right that many of us aspire to. The other ones I can think of are Pinboard and Instapaper. I'd rather go this route, personally, here's to more like these. Cheers.
Indeed. If one were wise, you could stalk Google/Yahoo/BigCo properties that are being neglected, launch a paid competitor and reap the reward when they shut down. Pinboard and now Newsblur.