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Information overload. My current side project is https://feedsub.com https://feedsub.com. Right now, - it's not great - I started by building an simple tool fo

Information overload. My current side project is https://feedsub.com https://feedsub.com. Right now, - it's not great - I started by building an simple tool for getting regular updates from RSS feeds, but longer-term I want to turn this into a system which can absorb all the data streams you're interested in (news, stocks, weather, social, communities) and give you dials (filters, curation, signals, etc..) to surface a healthy amount wherever you want (SMS, email, web, RSS, chatbots, etc..). The crux of the problem is endless scrolling feeds we're sucked into 24/7, which is why I based my MVP on email. My current solution is trivial on a technical level. Honestly, my biggest problem is thinking about the problem on a non-technical level, balancing this with working life and branding, since my software and vision are very far apart right now. (TBH, this isn't nearly as hard a problem as some of the others here - but I enjoy the ideas/feedback I get from communities like HN)

NicoJuicy 6y ago
Something like https://handlr.sapico.me https://handlr.sapico.me ? ( Dogfooding)
- cameronbrown 6y ago
  Yeah kind of like that. Looks interesting.
rohmanhakim 6y ago
Hmm, not sure how I feel about that YouTube "Skip the sub box!" feature. As subscribing to channels means you are supporting their effort for making contents you like
icebraining 6y ago
This is not completely related, but it reminded me of when I used Sup (a console email client that took a lot of inspiration from Gmail - labels, fast FTS, etc) and the author had an inspiration to create a client/server version, which could handle "Email, RSS feeds, notes, jabber and IRC logs" and more. https://web.archive.org/web/20120810005232/http://masanjin.net/blog/old13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120810005232/http://masanjin.n... Unfortunately, I don't think he even finished splitting Sup into the server+client (called Heliotrope and Turnsole), let alone get them to handle other stuff beyond email. Felt like a lost opportunity. -- For your project, seems like the direct competition is IFTTT and similar. What do you think differentiates your project from those? Could be useful to push more in that direction.
- cameronbrown 6y ago
  I reckon you could pull my project off with IFTTT. The big differentiator would ideally be the fact that this would be a product geared towards content consumption and that lifecycle (ingest, filter, consume), rather than just general purpose stuff that IFTTT does. I have a bunch of ideas in this regard, but it's very exploratory and not a short-term thing.

NicoJuicy 6y ago

Something like https://handlr.sapico.me https://handlr.sapico.me ? ( Dogfooding)

cameronbrown 6y ago
Yeah kind of like that. Looks interesting.

rohmanhakim 6y ago

Hmm, not sure how I feel about that YouTube "Skip the sub box!" feature. As subscribing to channels means you are supporting their effort for making contents you like

icebraining 6y ago

This is not completely related, but it reminded me of when I used Sup (a console email client that took a lot of inspiration from Gmail - labels, fast FTS, etc) and the author had an inspiration to create a client/server version, which could handle "Email, RSS feeds, notes, jabber and IRC logs" and more. https://web.archive.org/web/20120810005232/http://masanjin.net/blog/old13 https://web.archive.org/web/20120810005232/http://masanjin.n... Unfortunately, I don't think he even finished splitting Sup into the server+client (called Heliotrope and Turnsole), let alone get them to handle other stuff beyond email. Felt like a lost opportunity. -- For your project, seems like the direct competition is IFTTT and similar. What do you think differentiates your project from those? Could be useful to push more in that direction.

cameronbrown 6y ago
I reckon you could pull my project off with IFTTT. The big differentiator would ideally be the fact that this would be a product geared towards content consumption and that lifecycle (ingest, filter, consume), rather than just general purpose stuff that IFTTT does. I have a bunch of ideas in this regard, but it's very exploratory and not a short-term thing.