The ability to detach the frontend and control the storage backend was a pretty big motivation for http://grimwire.com/local/ http://grimwire.com/local/. You mi

The ability to detach the frontend and control the storage backend was a pretty big motivation for http://grimwire.com/local/ http://grimwire.com/local/. You might implement the RSS backend to serve an environment for running RSS apps. Then you'd write the GUI as one of those apps. The separation would allow you to change backend or frontend independently.