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Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by voidfiles »

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 already use an RSS reader, and have a bunch of feeds I want to use.

You are missing the ability for me to organize my feeds into folders. I have a lot of feeds, and I need folders to triage my reading into a sliding scale from important to least important.

After all of this keep it up, because I am, and I think many others are, willing to pay for an app that does RSS reading well.

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

#32

Post by FuzzyDunlop »

Punishker wrote: post #7

What's 'your MVP'? It looks and sounds like an app... How does your RSS reader beat the competition? Anything of note?

I believe it stands for 'minimum viable product'[1]. Basically releasing a rough v1.0 that does the bare minimum, and then turning it into the real deal in the next major iteration.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by rohitarondekar »

voidfiles wrote: post #31

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…

Fair point. But if this supported adding and managing feeds of my choice I would certainly give it a try. I'm guessing that this is a test of their reader and hence an MVP.

P.S I currently use Google Reader and am looking for alternatives.

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

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Post by jedbrown »

1. It doesn't seem to remember whether I have seen something before. I have over a hundred items per day in my feeds and I read them erratically, so I don't want to have to remember myself.

2. It would be nice to have a more integrated sharing feature. An ideal method for my group of computational science friends (since migrating off Google Reader and being dissatisfied with long threads on G+) would be linking into a (possibly private) reddit. It would be nice to at least see if the item has been shared yet.

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

#37

Post by callahad »

rohitarondekar wrote: post #35
voidfiles wrote: post #31

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…

Fair point. But if this supported adding and managing feeds of my choice I would certainly give it a try. I'm guessing that this is a test of their reader and hence an MVP. P.S I currently use Google Reader and am looking for alternatives.

You can add/edit feeds or import an OPML file at http://read.subpug.com/#subscriptions

Re: Show HN: We just launched our MVP, a new RSS Reader

#40

Post by spxdcz »

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 asap, but wanted to get this 'out the door' as quickly as possible to get your feedback.

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