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Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:30 PM UTC

btipling wrote: post #31

Instead of calling it a donation, just call it the 'pro' version and add like a supporter badge on the header or let them do something silly like change the color of their header like on HN. Will probably get more funds that way and won't get cynical people to roll their eyes at questionable use of the word 'donation' whether it is or not.

I was calling it a donation, because I do offer the service for free.

I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:30 PM UTC

fooyc wrote: post #50

Finally an RSS reader that does just what you would expect from an RSS reader, and that does it well. This may be the first real Google Reader alternative I've seen so far.

Thanks so much!! <3

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by DanBlake » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:33 PM UTC

Most important question: How often do you check for new content? A RSS feed reader is useless to me if you will only check my feeds once a day for new content. Bare minimum reall needs to be once every 30 minutes for me to consider it.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:36 PM UTC

DanBlake wrote: post #53

Most important question: How often do you check for new content? A RSS feed reader is useless to me if you will only check my feeds once a day for new content. Bare minimum reall needs to be once every 30 minutes for me to consider it.

Right now it's every 20 minutes. If I get enough donations I can reduce this by adding a few more servers to the parsing farm :)

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by shadowcats » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:37 PM UTC

PLEASE charge $30+ per year for this, so I can use it and not have to worry if it's going to be taken down due to lack of funds later on.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:38 PM UTC

davidjohnstone wrote: post #42

It looks nice, and at this point in time, this is what I'll probably be using next month. A few things: * Is there a way to scroll through all items in the same way that Google Reader does, rather than having to go to the next item by clicking (or hitting "j")? Feeds with lots of images suffer from the current approach, since there's a delay when each item is loaded (preloading them, say, five items in advance works…

* Yep, just hold "n" or "space" and you'll scroll through the articles * I'll look into that. * I'll try to gather some more feedback to what people think about the font. Perhaps it would make sense for this to be configurable.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by tocomment » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:39 PM UTC

How did you make it beautiful? Just good design skills?

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:39 PM UTC

shadowcats wrote: post #55

PLEASE charge $30+ per year for this, so I can use it and not have to worry if it's going to be taken down due to lack of funds later on.

LOL, if only you weren't the minority! If you would like to donate more, just let me know and I can manually adjust your account. Perhaps I should make the donation amount variable starting at $9/yr.

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:40 PM UTC

psycr wrote: post #28

jamiebikies wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, but it's not public yet .

Looks like Active Model Serializers under the hood? Looks good from what I can see.

Yep :)

Re: Show HN: Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader

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Post by jamiebikies » Wed, Jun 05, 2013, 6:41 PM UTC

h0w412d wrote: post #47

jamiebikies wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, but it's not public yet .

Is a website, is beautiful, is easy to use, has an API. You've hit on the first three, so when the API becomes public, I am so using this. Are you hosting this yourself? Do you expect $9/year members to adequate cover the costs? I'd totally be willing to pay more if it means I don't have to suffer through another shutdown.

A few people have mentioned wanting to donate more. I could make a few more options for the donation amount. I figured I was on the high end at $9/yr. People don't like paying for software anymore.