ALalexzeitler·Jan 5, 2024Submission
Collie, a minimal RSS feed reader application
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collie
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collie-reader / collie
collie
A minimal feed reader just for you
2Distinct people
2Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
250GitHub stars
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What it is
A minimal feed reader just for you
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This week on Hacker News
Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 1:49:46 PM UTC.
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HN mentions by week2 dated mentions
Observed mentions: 2023-08-25 05:28:59 UTC to 2024-01-05 05:18:58 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.
Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| Aug 21 | 2023-08-21 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Aug 28 | 2023-08-28 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 4 | 2023-09-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 11 | 2023-09-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 18 | 2023-09-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Sep 25 | 2023-09-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 2 | 2023-10-02 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 9 | 2023-10-09 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 16 | 2023-10-16 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 23 | 2023-10-23 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oct 30 | 2023-10-30 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 6 | 2023-11-06 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 13 | 2023-11-13 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 20 | 2023-11-20 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nov 27 | 2023-11-27 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 4 | 2023-12-04 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 11 | 2023-12-11 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 18 | 2023-12-18 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Dec 25 | 2023-12-25 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Jan 1 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-08 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
2 sourcesShow HN: Collie – A minimal RSS reader just for you
Collie is a minimal RSS feed reader application running on your desktop. With Collie, you can subscribe to multiple RSS/Atom feeds to organize your own news feed, receive a real-time notification when a new item is added to the subscribed feed, and save the items to read again or later.
All you need is a local machine and the Internet. No virtual machine, no cloud infrastructures, no always-on database, and no account registration with privacy information required.
I've been getting tech news from HackerNews, Lobsters, etc. on Twitter (It's X now, but I'll keep calling it Twitter anyway), but many of them have been terminated due to changes in Twitter's API policy. I went from place to place: Bluesky, Mastodon, Slack, and newsletter. However, I couldn't settle anywhere. The social media services such as Bluesky and Mastodon had too many u
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nnecessary features as news feed. Slack RSS was good to get the news in real-time, but the notifications mixed with other workspaces overwhelmed me. The newsletters gave me a lot of high-quality information, but not in real-time.
Then, I remembered Miniflux, the "minimalist and opinionated feed reader" that I had used past. This is the best option for my goal, but I had to pay for the hosted version or keep running docker machine on my local computer which did not have enough resources. Additionally, I didn't need a system that maintains multi-user sessions. Eventually, I had no choice but to create my own application, and that's why I made Collie, the minimal RSS reader just for me.