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Show HN: Read the Internet all at once – news, RSS, and newsletters on one page

53 points by alxmng 5y ago

shisisms 5y ago
Well done! Fun. There used to be an old desktop sit (called one something or signal something?) back in the halcyon days of Web 2.0 Used to have TechCrunch and Mashable etc., go to for a quick skim. Love that you’ve done this for the mobile era!! Best of luck with it.
- alexmingoia 5y ago
  Thank you.
- petercooper 5y ago
  Yeah, there were a lot of such sites and still are. https://alltop.com/ https://alltop.com/ was Guy Kawasaki's one (now seems to be someone else). https://upstract.com/ https://upstract.com/ is another. But yeah, I definitely remember others.
cybarDOTlive 5y ago
This is a super job for an aggregate! I wish I used you as an example in my failed thread a while ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30296889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30296889 I'm working on my own with a social community aspect attached allowing users to comment on these items, similar to HN.
consumer451 5y ago
I worked on a somewhat similar project a few years back and it's really nice to see what it should have looked like. Great job!
leobg 5y ago
And I say unto you: He who reads the Internet all at once will become as smart as GPT-3.
bbno4 5y ago
Suggestion: Replace reddit r/worldnews with r/anime_titties because r/worldnews is biased towards Americans and does not accurately portray world news, more like American news 2.0 with a casual sprinkle of world-events that affect America.
- alexmingoia 5y ago
  There's a variety of sources from different parts of the world. Paid accounts can customize or add their own RSS sources, so you can read r/anime_titties if you'd like.
toomuchtodo 5y ago
It’s beautiful! Love it.
huxflux 5y ago
I pretty darn sure I saw Sumi on Github, is there any particular reason that it's now removed? Edit: Found the repo (removed by author) and double spam threads commited here on HN adveritsing how cheap it now is to subscribe to Sumi.
- alexmingoia 5y ago
  You’re right the source was on GitHub for a while. It’s no longer open source because people would open issues asking how to run it, or asking for features, etc. and I’d rather spend my time improving the product for the people who pay for it. It’s written in Haskell using twain, blaze-html, selda, and feed packages. I’m not sure what you’re referring to about spam threads.
  - shisisms 5y ago
    Roughly how many people have you got paying for it? (Obviously don’t share if you don’t want to, but the pricing seems spot-on)
    - alexmingoia 5y ago
      Sumi.news started free, then had a lifetime deal, and last month I started charging yearly. There's about 20 grandfathered free users, a handful of lifetime deal users, and since last month I've gotten 20 paid subscribers. I've done zero marketing, except to post here and on Reddit. Ideally, I'd like to compete with Google News (I assume they will kill it off eventually). When I reach enough ARR I will be able to add more robust categorization and local news sources. A lot of news sources also require a paid subscription to their API (Reuters, AP, various local news sources).
  - Vindicis 5y ago
    looks good. I made something similar just for my own use that includes short summaries of the articles using a text analyzer. How come you don't have Reuters and the AP?
    - 5y ago
6510 5y ago
Hacker news reader approves of Read the Internet all at once webpage.
hombre_fatal 5y ago
Good job on this. I find myself using this daily over my RSS reader since it has a better UI. I really just want to scroll through a bunch of news sites and scan for some interesting articles. My RSS reader is so overwhelming that I don't even open it when I feel like wasting time.

53 points by alxmng 5y ago

Well done! Fun. There used to be an old desktop sit (called one something or signal something?) back in the halcyon days of Web 2.0 Used to have TechCrunch and Mashable etc., go to for a quick skim. Love that you’ve done this for the mobile era!! Best of luck with it.

alexmingoia 5y ago
Thank you.
petercooper 5y ago
Yeah, there were a lot of such sites and still are. https://alltop.com/ https://alltop.com/ was Guy Kawasaki's one (now seems to be someone else). https://upstract.com/ https://upstract.com/ is another. But yeah, I definitely remember others.

cybarDOTlive 5y ago

This is a super job for an aggregate! I wish I used you as an example in my failed thread a while ago; https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30296889 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30296889 I'm working on my own with a social community aspect attached allowing users to comment on these items, similar to HN.

consumer451 5y ago

I worked on a somewhat similar project a few years back and it's really nice to see what it should have looked like. Great job!

leobg 5y ago

And I say unto you: He who reads the Internet all at once will become as smart as GPT-3.

bbno4 5y ago

Suggestion: Replace reddit r/worldnews with r/anime_titties because r/worldnews is biased towards Americans and does not accurately portray world news, more like American news 2.0 with a casual sprinkle of world-events that affect America.

alexmingoia 5y ago
There's a variety of sources from different parts of the world. Paid accounts can customize or add their own RSS sources, so you can read r/anime_titties if you'd like.

toomuchtodo 5y ago

It’s beautiful! Love it.

huxflux 5y ago

I pretty darn sure I saw Sumi on Github, is there any particular reason that it's now removed? Edit: Found the repo (removed by author) and double spam threads commited here on HN adveritsing how cheap it now is to subscribe to Sumi.

alexmingoia 5y ago
You’re right the source was on GitHub for a while. It’s no longer open source because people would open issues asking how to run it, or asking for features, etc. and I’d rather spend my time improving the product for the people who pay for it. It’s written in Haskell using twain, blaze-html, selda, and feed packages. I’m not sure what you’re referring to about spam threads.
- shisisms 5y ago
  Roughly how many people have you got paying for it? (Obviously don’t share if you don’t want to, but the pricing seems spot-on)
  - alexmingoia 5y ago
    Sumi.news started free, then had a lifetime deal, and last month I started charging yearly. There's about 20 grandfathered free users, a handful of lifetime deal users, and since last month I've gotten 20 paid subscribers. I've done zero marketing, except to post here and on Reddit. Ideally, I'd like to compete with Google News (I assume they will kill it off eventually). When I reach enough ARR I will be able to add more robust categorization and local news sources. A lot of news sources also require a paid subscription to their API (Reuters, AP, various local news sources).
- Vindicis 5y ago
  looks good. I made something similar just for my own use that includes short summaries of the articles using a text analyzer. How come you don't have Reuters and the AP?
  - 5y ago

6510 5y ago

Hacker news reader approves of Read the Internet all at once webpage.

hombre_fatal 5y ago

Good job on this. I find myself using this daily over my RSS reader since it has a better UI. I really just want to scroll through a bunch of news sites and scan for some interesting articles. My RSS reader is so overwhelming that I don't even open it when I feel like wasting time.