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I always felt RSS/ATOM were underrated, So in 2015 for the love of RSS and information consumption we set out to build a completely customisable news aggregato
by Abishek_Muthian 9y ago
I always felt RSS/ATOM were underrated,
So in 2015 for the love of RSS and information consumption we set out to build a completely customisable news aggregator app with fast parsing (RSS/ATOM), category selection, reorder categories, notification customisation -(schedule, DND), image toggle, data saving mode, filter, youtube, sharing news with own voice attached called Talk about News - https://talkabout.co.in/ https://talkabout.co.in/
Sharing news along with voice was the USP, so that the shared content gets more value. While working on this, we saw that not every site followed RSS/ATOM standards we had to individually handle different sites for the shortcomings. I'm certain that, though Feedly started as RSS aggregator they are now parsing the sites as a whole for content for the same reasons.
By the time we built and released it, we understood Facebook has become the defacto news consumption source and without big marketing budget; our project was dead as soon as it arrived. We tried to salvage the tech and re-brand it as 'build your own app'for bloggers, but it didn't take off.
But we did take the voice sharing feature from TaN to another product called larynx, as we understood the 'News' in the name of Talk about News was one of the main inhibitors for downloads.
larynx (PH) - https://www.producthunt.com/posts/larynx https://www.producthunt.com/posts/larynx
Note: If any of you tried the app and if didn't work as expected; my apologies as the app hasn't been actively developed for years now & the website exists only for historical reasons.
- imagetic 9y agoThey were. It was just too complicated for people. I couldn't get my parents to setup RSS. No way.