Fraidycat Reviews

1. Stan

   · Founder at SaaSHub · about 5 years ago
   A great way to follow RSS

   I was looking for something like this for quite some time. I've been using Fraidycat for about 2 months now. It's very simple and easy to use. I love the you can organize your feeds by simple "emoji" tags. Also, the idea of setting an importance/frequency level per feed is great.

   If only more websites had RSS feeds...

   🏁 Competitors: Feedly, The Old Reader

   👍 Pros:    Simple|Unique

Mastodon Reviews

1. Coralie Davis

   4 months ago
   Account Suspension Without any Proper Reason

   The social networking sites that will ban your account without mentioning any reason.

   👍 Pros:    Worst support

Fraidycat mentions (30)

• Reading RSS content is a skilled activity

  There are a couple readers that avoid that by providing a calmer experience without a firehose and without background fetching. https://blogcat.org (I made this one) https://fraidyc.at (this is the inspiration for many calm readers) https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader (multiplatform and super calm). - Source: Hacker News / 4 days ago

• Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

  For reference, and not implying it's better or worse than your work OP, I've pleasantly used Fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/) in the past. It's a webextension, so completely local, and also incorporates the idea of having a "calmer" experience: no infinite list of links to check, different update rates, ... I love your philosophy page, OP ! (https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/30/designing-a-calm-web-reader/). - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Did rachelbythebay.com block my IP address because of my feed reader?

  I'm using Fraidycat (https://fraidyc.at/) which I enjoy a lot, but given her recent crusade against feed readers, I suspect that that's the reason that my IP address got blocked or so. (At least, that's what my ISP is leading me to believe because there is no issue on their end). Anyone else out there on the blacklist? - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• MeTube: Self-Hosted YouTube Downloader

  There's the fraidycat extension that I use to do exactly that: https://fraidyc.at/. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds

  I went years without consuming RSS until I discovered Fraidy Cat[1] here at Hacker News. 1. https://fraidyc.at. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

Mastodon mentions (720)

• Try Switching to Kagi

  In comments on Mastodon he also finds a way to twist this into an anti-EU rant: https://mastodon.social/@gruber/114418346006131728. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Ask HN: What are you working on? (April 2025)

  For awhile I've been working on an MPE MIDI controller called the Mosaichord. It uses a tuning system called just intonation, where the frequencies of all the notes are related to each other by whole number ratios. I'm using a scale that has 28 notes per octave. Keys are pressure sensitive. A few weeks ago I got a video of one of my friends playing it at a show: https://mastodon.social/@DesiderataSystems... - Source: Hacker News / 2 days ago

• Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep

  According to this book foxes are light weight because they jump to capture prey https://mastodon.social/@UP8/114389122128299887 So far as my fox is concerned [1] I know it puts a lot of stress on my hindquarters (wants to be pronograde?) and to express itself wants to use a range of postures and motion wider than I find comfortable. [1] https://yokai.com/kitsunetsuki/. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Don't make it "like Google"

  I think I meant the same thing as you, see https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110417985807049704 Notably the Google app icons commit the same sin that many multi-colored designs make in that they don't prefer any part of the color wheel over other parts in a particular symbol which makes all the symbols look effectively grey. I think of Scott McCloud's critique of the use of color in Stan Lee-era Marvel Comics and how... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

• CVE program faces Swift end after DHS fails to renew contract

  > A coalition of CVE Board members launched a new CVE Foundation "to ensure the long-term viability, stability, and independence of the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Program." > https://www.thecvefoundation.org https://mastodon.social/@serghei/114346660986059236. - Source: Hacker News / 14 days ago