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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

Kill the Newsletter! mentions (56)

• I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

  Also: https://kill-the-newsletter.com for use case 3. Free service with no signup that works reliably. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too

  You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit. You can't to my best knowledge create an RSS feed anymore from Twitter Newsletter to RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ More stuff: Blogs & RSS. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Building a smarter RSS feed for my newsletter subscriptions

  In this article, I’ll share a tool I recently built for my personal use, driven largely by intellectual curiosity. Although I was aware of services like Kill the Newsletter!, I wanted to create a service that generates a personalized RSS feeds for my newsletter subscriptions. I wanted the feed to do more than just list content — it would provide summaries of featured articles and topics shared in newsletters I am... - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative

  I prefer it the other way around: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?

  Alias: clestro interests: Classic rock, psychology, cybersecurity, privacy, hacking, startups, Linux, FOSS, onebag, skateboarding, playing guitar/bass, bouldering, vinyl records, muscle cars, magic tricks, improv, standup comedy, nyc/bay area. language(s): English link to something you think is cool: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ contact info: clestro12@outlook.com (will disable once spam starts to come in). - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

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 / 6 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