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Re: Show HN: Complete list of Google Reader alternatives

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I couldn't find TinyTinyRSS in it which is a open source alternative with a JSON API. http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki

Looks good, but I decided not to list open source alternatives that you need to self host, since most non technical users wouldn't be able to do that.

Hehe, I'm quite sure most of the readers of HN are able to selfhost ;)

Re: Show HN: Complete list of Google Reader alternatives

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I couldn't find TinyTinyRSS in it which is a open source alternative with a JSON API. http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki

Looks good, but I decided not to list open source alternatives that you need to self host, since most non technical users wouldn't be able to do that.

Would that also exclude Liferea?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liferea

Re: Show HN: Complete list of Google Reader alternatives

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How is the popularity being determined? I can't believe some of these oddities are more popular than Feedly or Feedbin

FTA: "Based on number of tweets & likes of the app page on StartHQ and Alexa reach"

Please do vote for the reader you're using by liking or tweeting its page - would be great to see which of the alternatives is most popular on HN!

Btw, you can see the underlying Alex reach by clicking the question mark icon.

Re: Show HN: Complete list of Google Reader alternatives

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I am hooked on Reeder and am thus limited to whatever servies are supported, thus narrowing my choices quite a bit.

FEEDBIN (2/month or 20/year)

+ best of the bunch

+ api on github

+ moved to new servers, better speed ahead

+ export available

+ aesthetic & functional

+ some app support on most platforms

+ feels like designed for heavy RSS user consumption

+ excellent reviews around the web

- 3 day only trial

- single developer and seemingly developed as a side project (not sure if + or -)

- unsubstantiated rumors about speed sync w reeder.app. (worried - where there's smoke theres fire)

FEEDLY (free)

+ integration w/ ifttt (can be amazing, for non-hosted experiments)

+ bigger team behind, slightly reassuring

+ aggresive about recruiting google reader users, made changes to accommodate.

- web client - more magazine-ish than reader-ish, even after their new update

- NO EXPORT, even after the new update. Looks like this may be strategic.

- mostly feedly's own apps only

FEED WRANGLER (paid 20/year)

+ smart streams

+ some decent app support

+ api on github, twitter

+ native phone apps

- AWFUL looking web ui thats hard to get past

- single developer (EDIT: tx for the reply)

4. FEED_A_FEVER (30/forever)

+ innovative

+ well designed

+ long time, so pretty cleaned up regards to bugs etc.

+ excellent reviews

+ trustworthy dev behind this

+ native app

+ good third party apps

+ api

+ self-hosted

- dev claims he is overwhelmed w/ life and other game related projects atm and will not be able to focus on this.

- have to worry about hosting etc.

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