Show HN: FeedFlow – a minimalistic and opinionated RSS Reader

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3 years ago

Hey there HN! I'm Marco and some time ago I've started (again) to stay up to date with RSS. But I wasn’t completely satisfied with the readers already out there, so I decided to built my own.

What I want for an RSS reader is easily going through my feed and being able to open the article on the respective website. That's because:

- the majority of websites with an RSS feed don’t share the article’s full content because they want you to go on their website; - if an article is worth a long read and I want to save it, I’m using a read-it-later app. - I want to use a “disposable” browser and not my main one for reading, where I can nuke navigation data or auto-handle cookie banners (DuckDuckGo or Firefox Focus).

With that in mind, I decided to start the development of FeedFlow and now it's available for Android, iOS and macOS. On the tech side it's built with Jetpack Compose for the Android app, Compose Multiplatform for the desktop app, and SwiftUI for the iOS app. And the parsing is done with a library that I've developed called RSSParser: https://github.com/prof18/RSS-Parser

FeedFlow offers a minimalistic feeds list and it opens the articles on their respective websites with the broswer of your choice (on mobile). FeedFlow also supports importing an existing RSS collection through OPML files.

Feel free to ask any questions or share any feedback. Looking forward to it!

- Marco

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