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NewsBlur (first time trying it) is such a polished experience with all the little bells and whistles of a seasoned Apple app that I am having a very hard time b
by rkalla 16y ago
NewsBlur (first time trying it) is such a polished experience with all the little bells and whistles of a seasoned Apple app that I am having a very hard time believing that you are a single developer and not 6, full time, seasoned UX designers and programmers all rolled into one.
For what it's worth, NewsBlur is so polished, when I went to add a feed to my account I thought to myself: "Shit, I bet this guy will auto-complete the feed URL from well-known feeds" ... then when I popped up the dialog I thought "wow, that is a really big stretch for me to assume/hope for that... I'll cut him some slack if it doesn't.
Of course, it did and I had a little smirk on my face and mumbled "Damn, this guy is good".
No idea what you have planned for the future, but I imagine NewsBlur is one of many-to-be-aquired ventures you will create.
Nice work man, really nice work.
- conesus 16y agoThanks for the feedback. I really appreciate it. Really, I run on props, and a comment like this is worth at least a month of energy. As for being acquired, I feel like it's this myth that great projects get acquired or sold. But I haven't even heard a peep about potential interest. And NewsBlur has hundreds of premium users keeping the servers on at night! You'd be surprised, but I have yet to hear about any interest whatsoever. It's nice to have a profitable project, but if I were in it for the potential acquisition, I would've quit a looong time ago. It's just not worth it (or maybe it is... 10 million, 10 million, no whammy, STOP).