How to build my own information feed / front page?

#1

Post by rolicia » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 7:52 PM UTC

How have you solved the problem of getting a personalized feed of the information you would like to consume?

I would like to have show up on this feed articles from:

- news websites i frequent - medium stories from people i follow - tweets from people i like

basically a daily newspaper built just for me.

I'm not a developer, so looking for 3rd party solutions that are basically plug and play. Perhaps an extension or something?

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#2

Post by helph67 » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

Perhaps start with a search for "news aggregators"; Daily Rotation allows you to record sites from which it will provide daily headlines. https://www.dailyrotation.com/

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#3

Post by pmrd » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 8:39 PM UTC

Write an aggregator API

If the site you like still support RSS that’s likely the easiest way to go

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#4

Post by dperalta » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 9:40 PM UTC

Check out: https://fraidyc.at/

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#5

Post by tn1 » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 9:48 PM UTC

It sounds like you want a portal like MyYahoo or iGoogle, popular in the early 2000s. You could add widgets for RSS, weather, stocks, and lots more. Too bad most of those are long gone

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#6

Post by jay3ss » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 10:12 PM UTC

pmrd wrote: post #3

Write an aggregator API If the site you like still support RSS that’s likely the easiest way to go

> I'm not a developer, so looking for 3rd party solutions that are basically plug and play

I think that writing an API might not be an option for OP

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#7

Post by stevenicr » Sun, Dec 26, 2021, 11:12 PM UTC

tn1 wrote: post #5

It sounds like you want a portal like MyYahoo or iGoogle, popular in the early 2000s. You could add widgets for RSS, weather, stocks, and lots more. Too bad most of those are long gone

ah yes.. https://my.yahoo.com - pageflakes.com - netvibes.com - These were awesome - especially when it was easy to grab rss feeds from many places.

Some places killed their rss - many just hid them and made them harder to find - now there's sites that make rss from non-enabled sites - so I'm hoping for a resurgence.

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#8

Post by Jugurtha » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 1:22 AM UTC

If I were to follow your activity, comments and posts, on Hacker News, I'd add the RSS feed https://hnrss.org/user?id=rolicia to Thunderbird.

If I wanted them separate:

- https://hnrss.org/submitted?id=rolicia (threads/posts/"stories")

- https://hnrss.org/threads?id=rolicia (comments/"threads")

I just posted detailed steps on how to set up something like this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29697834 to follow certain keywords on comments or posts.

You can click on that link and see

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#9

Post by alexmingoia » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 10:10 AM UTC

https://mailbrew.com let’s you compile everything into a daily digest email (RSS, Twitter, newsletters, Podcasts, etc.). You could also use a webapp that does the same like https://sumi.news

Re: How to build my own information feed / front page?

#10

Post by Irongirl1 » Mon, Dec 27, 2021, 7:58 PM UTC

I want the same thing and I'm also not techie. During my research I've just been saving lots of stuff. I came across dashboard type programs: www.finalboard.com seems to be the best of them because it's FOSS.

But again the difficulty is that if you aren't techie...you have to hire someone and then TRUST them to build it for you and not retain access etc.

Fetchrss.com generates an rss feed from any source and I think it can be added to finalboard also. The Twitter issue is harder for me because I refuse to sign up even though I go to several folks tweetstorms. I wish they had a "follow-only" account one could sign up for....