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Show HN: Would you use this with your RSS subscription?
Hi guys, I'm just out of "close beta" with one of my side projects related to rss feeds and would appreciate your feedback. http://www.feedsapi.com is the project with a premium subscription model, the free plan is monetized with Ads and Branding while the Premium plan comes with an API Key to remove tha Ads and the branding, and fetch more feeds. Would you use something like this? Any feedback about teh monetization strategy?
For Tests purposes, you can use this APi Key: hackernewsbeta11
Thanks!
- gitesh 15y agoWow!!! This is a great tool to make my auto-generated full-text RSS feed. This works. My latest contents are on the top. Thanks a lot for this Auto Generator.
- Concours 15y agoclickable: http://www.feedsapi.com http://www.feedsapi.com
- ianpurton 15y agoI personally wouldn't use it, I don't feel the pain that this service is trying to solve. Maybe some better examples on the landing page would persuade me. The design and layout needs a lot of work. At the moment it's got that "Designed by a developer" look and feel. Only one redeeming feature. The video. Who is that ? How did you persuade them to be so excited about RSS.
- Concours 15y agoThanks for the feedback and suggestions Ian, as for the design, well, it's a themeforest template ( http://themeforest.net/item/oneland-landing-page/156922 http://themeforest.net/item/oneland-landing-page/156922 ) and that guy seems to know his stuff. Glad you like the video, I wasn't sure about that, I had the choice between this and a demo video...RSS is very exciting for some folks, the guy love the service, so not much work to convince him. The pain we are solving: Removing all the ads and junk from rss feeds article, turning shortened rss feeds article to full text articles, creating an rss feed for a static page without RSS...that's just some of the problems we are trying to fix, have you tried it with the Hacker News Feed? here it is: http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/gakK http://feeds.feedburner.com/feedsapi/gakK you are fully right about having some example on the landing page, will update
- stfu 15y agoYou really have to demonstrate in which situations it is superior to just a "regular" rss syndication service like http://netvibes.com http://netvibes.com Maybe create some "cases" where you can show the true benefit from your product as mentioned before. At the moment the API makes it sound like a b2b tool (i.e. a tool only for those that work with APIs already?) and I am not sure in how far they would use such a service (familiarize with the API) over just coding something similar themselves. But what I could indeed see as a very successful service is something, where you just enter a shortned rss feed and it spits out solely based this information a full-text rss feed. You got to pick one of these aspects, focus on it and clearly communicate it - otherwise the API thingy is making it very tricky to interpret what it does. Oh and one more thing... the testimonial guy has in my opinion already a bit of "overexposure" through the web. Be careful about that. I hope you know what I mean...
- Concours 15y agoYeah, got it with the testimonial Guy :) , will replace the video by a new demo highligting the features for normal Joe's. "But what I could indeed see as a very successful service is something, where you just enter a shortned rss feed and it spits out solely based this information a full-text rss feed." That's exactly one of thing it does, I will try to focus on that in the video demo-ing the product, and maybe write a new tag line focussing only on this feature. Thanks for the great suggestions.