| ▲ | theptip 6 hours ago | |
Tough market. What’s your differentiator over Readwise? They are crushing it on the “power user feed reader”. Best of luck though, I think this is a very promising space. (But my bet is you can do all the interesting stuff in vibe-coded thin UI + OSS pipeline.) | ||
| ▲ | tjansen 6 hours ago | parent [-] | |
> What’s your differentiator over Readwise? Simplicity. I can get you reading your first feed in under a minute. Also, I am not really thinking about monetization right now, but I am building a feed reader I want to use. I wouldn't want to spend $13 a month for it. > thin UI + OSS pipeline No, the UI isn't that thin. I am optimizing it to minimize my costs for operating it. Everything I can do inside the client is done inside the client. Interactions with the server are mostly limited to polling every 2 minutes for feed updates, and sending read markers after 3 seconds of inactivity. Feed data is stored on CDN, compressed. | ||