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Winds – An Open Source Personalized RSS Reader
- randomsofr 10y agoIt says Node 7, is there any feature that you use on Node 7 that is not available in previous versions? Just curious.
- randomsofr 10y agoDoes anyone have actual screenshots? I don't want to put my email address.
- rch 10y agoLooks like there are a few screenshots on the project site: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds https://github.com/GetStream/Winds
- arc_of_descent 10y agoI use Feedly pretty much everyday. A recommendation engine for news doesn't really cut it for me. But of course, it would be a good exercise in ML.
- cad 10y agodoes it support firefox?
- bryanrasmussen 10y agosince this is built on top of Getstream.io https://getstream.io/ https://getstream.io/ I guess it follows their pricing structure - https://getstream.io/pricing/ https://getstream.io/pricing/ free for 3 million updates... what defines a feed update: The number of feed updates depends on how many activities you publish via the API and the number of users who follow those feeds. If you add an activity to a feed that is followed by 50 other feeds, this will trigger 51 feed updates. which sounds to me like if you use them to do stuff you have to control not just your feeds through their api but also your users - otherwise how will they know really how many users following the feeds?
- webwanderings 10y agoDigg RSS Reader has been unbelievably good. The best thing about it (so far - knock on wood) that they don't tinker or change anything, because everything is working like it should. I don't really see a reason to try anyone else.
- snvzz 10y agoNot very fond of their "Try it out" feature, which after making me waste time on their "select 3" first step, then proceeds to try and cajole me into giving away my email address. Wish they posted some screenshots or static pages or something of the sort, so I could take a look and see if I like it more than stringer, which is the current solution I'm using.
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoA little worse than that: Even once you do all that, the feed is empty. It seems to only get stories posted after your account creation, rather than pulling the existing feeds like most RSS readers. So after doing all this setup, I had to go back to the site later to actually try out how it arranged content.
- SparkyMcUnicorn 10y agoYeah, a fledged out demo account is a "must have" when showcasing a product.
- tschellenbach 10y agoSome 500s due to HNews traffic, try the github repo: https://github.com/getstream/winds https://github.com/getstream/winds
- focusgroup0 10y agoYep, that's when I left the funnel :) too much friction
- jklinger410 10y agoSorry I'm not interested in a Feed Reader that tries to give me suggestions. I like to follow the stuff I like to follow. I do the footwork of finding quality sources by myself. Maybe I'm not most RSS users in that regard, I'm not sure, haven't done the market research. It feels to me that suggested sources leads to promoted sources leads to paid content.
- fny 10y agoI'd actually bet this isn't going to be monetized that way since Stream is using the reader to showcase the personalization service they sell.
- AdmiralAsshat 10y agoDo people really want recommendations? I personally want to just have an RSS reader that gives me the articles from the sites I freaking asked for. Not what some service thinks I'll like. Google, Pocket, and other sites are already doing a great job of thumbing through what I read and trying to sneak in their "suggestions": that's the kind of invasive data-combing that I want to avoid.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoI have a script that sends RSS feeds to my email and then filters that organize them as necessary.
- wanda 10y agoYou might like this: https://www.goread.io https://www.goread.io https://github.com/mjibson/goread https://github.com/mjibson/goread Easy to self-host, solid replacement for Google Reader.
- discreditable 10y agoI'm a fan of Tiny Tiny RSS (tt-rss). I self-host it at home. I use a mix of the web UI and the Android app to view it. I tried a few cloud-hosted readers but didn't like their UI as much as tt-rss.
- benbristow 10y agoSame. It's great. Can even run it in a Docker container. https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-tt-rss https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-tt-rss
- tschellenbach 10y agoI'm working on this project, so slightly biased. First, we show you both the chronological display in a list mode. That allows you to browse through things quickly and filter out what you're interested in manually. The personalization is used in combination with the image style layout. On that screen we try to surface the most interesting information. Second, yesterday I was browsing quora questions about features of RSS readers. The most requested feature was personalization to help deal with information overload. I think some percentage of users doesn't need personalization, but the vast majority do. Personally I was a big fan of Zite, I used that app everyday. Pity they were acquired and shutdown.
- tschellenbach 10y agoGithub Link: https://github.com/getstream/winds https://github.com/getstream/winds
- jroblak 10y agoIt's going to be extremely hard to convert anyone who uses an RSS reader without import functionality. There is 0% chance that I'm going to switch no matter how good your recommendation algorithm is if I can't also keep up with my current feeds.
- djhworld 10y agoIt wouldn't be so bad if they had like a suggestion box or something at the side with feeds you might like to add.
- iandouglas 10y agoWe've been taking suggestions on the GitHub Issues page. One of the biggest things folks are asking for is an OPML import.
- nparsons08 10y agohttps://github.com/getstream/Winds/issues https://github.com/getstream/Winds/issues
- hackuser 10y agoDoes anyone know an RSS feed reader with these features? 1) Deduplication 2) Grouping of articles on the same topic. For example, grouping all articles on Angela Merkel's latest Brexit comments, so I can easily choose one and ignore the rest. Grouping would make me an order of magnitude more efficient when reading RSS. I'd happily pay $100 for that feature. Also: 3) Efficiently and automatically manage broken feeds: Automatically retry (over X hours or days), automatically look for a replacement feed, and then let me know which feeds need my attention.
- wilshiredetroit 10y agoI run an aggregator using wordpress, feedwordpress plugin, and related post plugin - it does a good job of "grouping" articles of a similar topic. So I get a good idea of what other news sources has said about that topic. - it took 10 mins to setup.
- soufron 10y agoI designed one a few years ago, but it was to help the newsroom of a magazine who wanted to publish blog articles every week. You can check it online, it was called "vendredi". It worked well.
- zingplex 10y agoBy deduplication, do you mean that you want articles on the same subject to be filtered out or do you just want the same article not to be displayed multiple times?
- nparsons08 10y agoNick here from GetStream.io (Winds). We didn't expect Winds to see so much traffic today, so we're experiencing temporary downtime. We'll have everything back up and running as soon as possible. Thank you for all of your support!
- nparsons08 10y agoBack up and running smoothly. Sorry for the delay!
- arkadiyt 10y agoHow are people still launching apps with sign-in over http - jesus christ.
- tschellenbach 10y agoWhich features are you looking for in an RSS reader? Some ideas we're discussing for Winds 0.2.0: - Secondary links (ie comments link for HNews and Lobsters) - Batch OPML import - Deploy to Heroku button - Follow suggestions (we're working on this) - Switching between feeds should be easier - Lightweight task queuing system for emails and discover endpoint - Keyboard shortcuts (vim style) - GraphQL style APIs so you have more flexibility for building your own mobile apps - Android & iOS apps - Support more sites (RSS data quality is pretty poor and often needs custom logic per site/feed) - Search article's you've read using Algolia - Folders/Groups - Sharing support (e.g. Buffer, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
- kem 10y agoI was going to say mobile apps. Winds looks great--I just usually use RSS readers on my Android device. Also, distributed sync would be awesome (i.e., without a centralized server, using something like syncthing or whatever), but that's just a dream.
- awowl 10y agohackuser posted a requirement which has my full support: Since you're doing machine learning, try and apply that to avoid showing me articles with overlapping content. Often quite a few sites I follow will cover the same thing, and obviously, I want to read it only once.
- tschellenbach 10y agoThank you, good suggestion!
- hackuser 10y agoTo clarify my version of the idea, I would like to see all the articles on the same subject but grouped together, perhaps in a collapsible outline, so I can choose which one or more articles I want to read on the subject.
- anc84 10y agoGrab each URL and all referenced URLs with wget (as WARC) and optionally youtube-dl so I can have an archive of them all.
- mintplant 10y agoIn the category of self-hosted stream readers there's also Tiny Tiny RSS [0], which I use and enjoy. It has a nice Android app and pluggable scrapers for extracting webcomic images and full content from summary feeds. Although it's been described as having "the most hostile primary maintainer of a piece of software I've ever encountered", which I experienced a bit of personally last time I tried to contribute upstream. [0] https://tt-rss.org https://tt-rss.org
- jancborchardt 10y agoDid you try out Nextcloud News? https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app https://github.com/nextcloud/news/#nextcloud-news-app We have a more modern design than Tiny Tiny RSS, are way friendlier, and if you would contribute that’d be majorly awesome! :)
- tschellenbach 10y agoYou can also run it as an OSX app: https://github.com/GetStream/Winds/tree/master/native https://github.com/GetStream/Winds/tree/master/native
- Veen 10y agoFor work (writer) I go through dozens of feeds every day. About 90% of what I see is irrelevant, but I need to see it to filter out the relevant data. I'd pay a decent amount for a service that can tailor itself and deliver relevant results without much manual intervention. InoReader and some other RSS readers have decent filtering, but it's all manual. So this excited me, but without a way to import my existing feeds it's largely useless to me.
- tschellenbach 10y agoThis is by far the most commonly requested feature. Top of our list for 0.2!
- Touche 10y agoLooks really good! The design is fantastic, well done. My only criticism would be that the Getting Started page is definitely skewed towards a specific segment. Like, how is Sports not an option? Music? I understand that there are only 9 slots in your designs, but please choose some that are more representative of general interests, not just Palo Alto mid-20s coffee shop startup founders.
- tschellenbach 10y agoWe launched this on Product Hunt yesterday so it's currently tailored to that audience. More topics are coming! Going to need some community help with curating the feeds for those topics though.
- otto_ortega 10y agoThe GUI is nice, very well done. It suggested a good website I didn't know, I will give it a try. The thing I didn't liked is that, if it's supposed to be "learning" how comes I can't load new stories after I'm done with the initial set?
- hedora 10y agoI'm confused. It looks like this won't work unless you use the stream API, which is (apparently) not open source / self hosted. The only reasons I can think of to host my own RSS reader are to prevent third party profiling, editorial transparency, and future proofing against the provider shutting down or evolving the service in a way that I don't like. This provides none of those advantages. Am I missing something?
- irickt 10y agoSome part of it is open source: https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework
- metellus 10y agoThis website has absolutely no information about the product it's trying to display.
- vsloo 10y agoOur team at Reamaze is all trying Winds right now since seeing on Product Hunt yesterday. Love the machine learning in-progress. I find the content to be curated quite well for my preference. The main issue I'm having is actually adding RSS feeds from sources I read on a daily basis. Not sure what the issue is. Love the two display options since not everything is relevant all the time and it's just easier to go chronological.
- tschellenbach 10y agoJust open a ticket on Github with the RSS feeds in question. We'll gladly add support.
- dpkrjb 10y agoThis is a bit too full on for me. I'm currently using feedly at the moment but I'm looking for something I can read without a browser. Does anyone have a recommendation for a battle tested rss reader with a good cli interface?
- tedmiston 10y agoIt would be nice to be able to try the whole app without signing up with my email. That's what I thought "Try Winds RSS > Clicking 3 feeds > Continue Now" would lead to.