myRSS - RSS Feeder
July 31st, 2006 - By: Alex Bailey
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Well that was going to be the name of the RSS feeder, I've coded but now I'm not so sure. myrss.com is taken as is myrss.net. And upon googleing myrss there is already a SourceForge project named that. So I was trying to think of names to name it when Bawked recommended quickRSS. The .net version of it is avalible so that's what I'm using so far. Anyways I took some movies of my screen of me using the RSS feeder, one for dial-up and one for broadband. I'm not going to release the binary just yet, because I'm still working out some bugs. When I release the project, donations would be awesome. Rui and I have spent tons of time coding this. Hosting and a domain isn't free either :\. The dial-up version can be downloaded here (~5 Megabytes), and the broadband version can be downloaded here (~12 Megabytes). Note this server honestly sucks but I have no money to pay for better hosting. So please give the movies time to load. The dial-up one takes around 30 seconds while the broadband one takes around a minute. Leave any comments if you have suggestions for the feeder, or name suggestions.
EDIT: QuickRSS.net has been bought. Also the video will load instantly for broadband users as I have new hosting. (6 mbit download speed on my end and it takes about a second to load) Server is on a 1 gig line so enjoy =)
1. rssguy | August 8th, 2006 @ 4:17 AM |
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So how is this better than the other x00 other RSS readers out there…?
I doubt anyone would pay for this as it is. I can’t see any advantages over Feeddemon and Netnewswire (market leaders in commercial desktop RSS), or even over the countless free ones for that matter.
Still doesn’t look too bad though.
2. Rub3X | August 8th, 2006 @ 4:27 AM |
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Yea I was thinking about that earlier..but I don’t know how much I would charge. Is $8.99 or something that much money for all the time put in to this? That’s basically a donation.. If I make it free, I’m almost certain nobody would donate. If it’s pay however $8.99 is absolutly no money these days, and if people like what they see I doubt they would have much trouble forking out that much.
3. rssguy | August 8th, 2006 @ 4:57 AM |
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Well… even if it’s free I don’t see why anyone would use it. There are better products out there.
Just off the top of my head rssowl.org/ rssowl.org/overview is free and bloxor.com has the same interface but web based.
If you want money out of an RSS build a web based app. feedlounge.com has many subscribers for 5 bucks a month.
No money in desktop RSS at this point. As it is I guarantee you you will make nothing.
4. Rub3X | August 8th, 2006 @ 5:03 AM |
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I’ll think about a PHP one. The ones I looked at have so many useless features. Some have a nice interface, and some don’t. Mine is very easy to use with no useless features, and a nice interface. You’re changing my mind about making it pay. =\ Either cheap or open source, we’ll see what happens.
5. rssguy | August 8th, 2006 @ 5:12 AM |
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Well… what is the advantage over this
rssowl.org...wl_win.gif
Simple enough for me… Considering RSSOwl alone it’s impossible for anyone in their right mind to pay for this
However, yes, online RSS still needs a killer app, saturated market but surprisingly no standout yet besides the barebones Bloglines. Rojo is great but too complex.
Also, “no useless features” = no posible advantages over anythung = bad attitude
anyways good night I’ll check on this tommorrow. I’m very interested in RSS Readers and if you are starting a web based one or need to improve this I’d be more than happy to give suggestions.
6. Rub3X | August 8th, 2006 @ 5:17 AM |
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Ok what are your suggestions for the current app. And as for a web based one I’m horible at HTML as it is, I can’t imagine making something with a sleek interface. Not to mention with the web 2.0 being so popular, I don’t know any ajax at all.
7. rssguy | August 8th, 2006 @ 3:19 PM |
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keep in my that I am going by the demo alone so I can’t know if you have already implemented a feature
OPML support for mass importing - absolute necessity
del.icio.us support as well as a way to save and tag stories within the app. actually, you do have favorites but it’s only accessible from the first summary window
river of news by category - select a group and list all stories from all feeds within that group; just like in bloglines. as well as other alternate options for reading
allow for customization of the panes, I see you do have a 2/3 pane toggle though
under your options all I see is a proxy setting, needs much much more options and customization
unfortunate on your lack of web-design skill; should’ve known from you cyber-knowledge.net homepage :P but it’s too bad because if you’re after cash that cash is in the online RSS market, yes it is saturated but most of the products out there suck. Feedlounge is an app even more simple than this, but it’s web-based and $5 per month fee, I am sure they have at least 10k subscribers, big money. Bloglines was bought by Ask.com for 100 million +. Netvibes has how many millions in funding already. Many other small RSS startups have much funding or have been bought out.
8. Rub3X | August 9th, 2006 @ 4:37 AM |
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Do you have MSN or AIM or Yahoo?
9. rssguy | August 10th, 2006 @ 12:56 AM |
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currently on a friends laptop so I can’t install anything
might be easier for me to use IRC since it is built into Opera
leave your server / channel
10. Rub3X | August 10th, 2006 @ 4:35 AM |
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irc.cyber-knowledge.net #Main - nobody is there. :)
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