RSS Reader
Your feeds, unread counts, and keyboard shortcuts like the old days.
IntermediateWeb appMedia12–24hAI-buildable 5/5no setupworth shipping
A feed reader with folders, unread tracking, and j/k navigation. The interesting problems are deduplicating items across feeds that syndicate each other and rendering wildly inconsistent feed HTML safely.
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Core features · 7
- Add feeds by URL and organise them into folders
- Unread counts per feed and folder
- Items mark as read on view with a manual toggle
- Keyboard navigation between items and feeds
- Feed content renders sanitised
- Items duplicated across feeds are collapsed
- Read state and subscriptions persist
The interesting part
- CORS prevents fetching most feeds directly from the browser
- RSS, Atom and JSON Feed all need handling
- Sanitising arbitrary feed HTML without stripping useful content
Once it works
- Add full-text search across all items
- Add saved-for-later with tags
- Add OPML import and export
Suggested stack
reacttypescripttailwindlocalstorage