MondayRSS.

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Rather than making a desktop client, I imagine making a Web-based front end just like Google Reader (but better!) would be a more productive approach. For one thing, you get most desktop environments with relatively little extra effort (seriously, you don't need to care about IE users unless you intend to fund hosting and/or turn a profit with advertising or the like). If you want things to be happily synchronized between devices and locations then you're going to need a server anyway. Plus most RSS content that is consumed involes audio, video, or images. Things that are easily consumed in a Web browser, and are less accessible from outside of them (that's the only downside to newsbeuter: most of my RSS feeds focus on images or video, and the feed itself is useless without being able to visualize these things). It may be worth writing Android and iOS apps, but only if you're popular enough (or insist on having them for yourself; IOW, fuck iOS unless there's a market for it ).

I would be willing to participate if you decide you could use help (especially parts that are in Perl).

You started the thread yesterday.

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append: it should be said that I started this project last week so not yet a monday project

Wouldn't Apple tear you a new asshole if you would name it iFeed?

You can't.

I finally got a reply back from the person that owns feeder.com. They want $750 (to be honest, I'm surprised they don't want a lot more)

Not quite willing to pay that much. Especially since I think I like mercurss better feeder might be simpler, and easier to remember, but eh, mercurss is more unique. Also just spent $110 on various mercurss domains

Yeah, like I said, I'm surprised it isn't a lot more.

Haha. I like that. I've already decided on mercurss for now though.

If I liked it more, I don't mind ditching the mercurss domains.

Most feedr variants are gone.

The main reason I'm working on this is because I'm sick of companies killing off things I use, and I haven't liked the alternatives very much.

I may dedicate more time to this project while I'm out at my mom's place, depends on how much actual work I have to do out there.

append: I'm actually starting to like moosefeed more and more as the night goes on....

Out of curiosity, what's everyone's favorites?

I liked: feeder, Murcurss, and moosefeed

I'm also curious as to what kind of features people are looking for. Initial features will be the website, doing pretty standard rss aggregation type stuff. You'll get a tree of folders you can organize your feeds into, and I imagine I'll add "tags" based on the feed's own "categories" tags at some point. After the site works decently I'll add native iOS and Android apps which tie in directly into the site's api, so all devices under your account will sync the same items and states for items.

I don't particularly use anything more than that, so that's what's in my plan for the alpha version. Do many people actually use "favourites", "saved items", or "share" features? I sometimes want to share items to fb or twitter, but not often. They aren't hard to support but I don't particularly think they are a "must have" in the alpha.

What about Google/OpenID/FaceBook/Twitter logins? Will anyone ever use any of those? Initially the service will have its own basic login service, which right now only requires your email, a password, and asks for your name. More may be added in the future.

I'd like to see a way to make a feed for a site that doesn't have one.
There are a bunch of webcomics I'm following and some have no feed and the rest regularly mess up their feed.

I want reliability.

Something I do not like is having a single big stream of all the new stuff.
I prefer having it like live bookmarks where I can look at each feed individually.
I like going to each site to look at stuff, richer content from fewer sources is my style.

MooseFeed, because it doesn't say merCURSS.