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I have been thinking of creating a similar app; however I wanted to do a "Sunday paper". This look nice and I like the minimalist design, but I would prefer to
by aurea 2y ago
I have been thinking of creating a similar app; however I wanted to do a "Sunday paper". This look nice and I like the minimalist design, but I would prefer to have solution that I can self-host.
- exprez135 2y agoThe tool actually is open source, so you could self-host it if you wish. MIT license, in Python. The repository [1] is linked in the blog post the author wrote about the project [2]. [1]: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader [2]: https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/30/designing-a-calm-web-reader/ https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/30/designing-a-calm-web-reader/
- zerojames 2y agoThe open source version is a bit different from the hosted one: the open source code involves running the polling script, then building a static site (which is how I run the site for several months as a single-user project). I am planning to move the polling changes upstream soon and then figure out a plan for open sourcing the full project.
- stanislavb 2y agoI've been thinking of it, too. And, I've created one a few years ago. It's been running 100% uptime and for free since then - lenns.io. I'd be happy if you give it a go and let me know what you think.
- rakoo 2y agosfeed (https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html) has basic infrastructure to do that