COcontradictioned·Oct 8, 2025
I’ll add https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer to the self-hosted list. It is my reader of choice since I think over ten years. Never had the feeling of looking for another one.
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stringer
A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
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What it is
A self-hosted, anti-social RSS reader.
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Regarding the money thing, remember there are other currencies than dollars. When I open sourced my own RSS reader[1] some of the "non-monetary currencies" I received: *…
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 14 | 1 | 13 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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27 sourcesI use stringer https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer
I self host on docker been running reliably for a few years without issue.
In The end of tweeted articlesA self-hosted anti-social RSS reader
2 points · Open discussionAnd:
- NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
- Stringer: https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer
- CommaFeed: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
- Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr
- News app for Nextcloud: https://github.com/nextcloud/news
- Newspipe: https://github.com/cedricbonhomme/newspipe
- Feedbunch: https://gitlab.com/amatriain/feedbunch
In RSS Readers That You Can Self HostI've used a self-hosted version of Stringer for a while: it's a barebones single-user RSS reader with very few other features. Probably not great if you plan on following lots of feeds in different categories, but it's perfect for me: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
In Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?https://github.com/swanson/stringer -- I built an RSS reader a few year agos with the same ethos: "Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms. But it does have keyboard shortcuts..."
It's not being actively developed (it's 'feature complete' and working just fine), but might suit your needs.
In Winds – An Open Source Personalized RSS ReaderObligatory plug for Stringer, my personal reader of choice: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
In Show HN: Convenient web rss-readerSince no-one has mentioned it yet, I'll throw in my personal favourite RSS reader: Stringer. Dead easy to set up and does away with all the social stuff that I never used in Google Reader
https://github.com/swanson/stringer
In Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud servicesI'd be interested in adding this button once it gets offical support from DigitalOcean.
I added the Heroku Button[1] to a self-hosted OS app I wrote[2] and it seems to be useful (over 100 "recent deploys" per Heroku). It would be great if there was some affiliate commission as well - if someone signs up for a VPS to run an app, would be awesome to get a small kickback from DigitalOcean.
[1]: https://buttons.heroku.com/
[2]: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
In Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source appsAwesome - I mentioned this 400+ days ago when the platform API was announced! Cool to see it getting rolled out, looking forward to playing around with this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5793441
EDIT: Setup was pretty smooth - one click deploy for my RSS reader now: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
In Introducing Heroku ButtonReally like your point on OSS. Even if you don't make a whole "marketing site" - you can get a lot of mileage by considering your README as a sales page (and not just a technical document).
Here's an actual example, compare the READMEs for these open source RSS readers:
https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/swanson/stringer/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/feedbin/feedbin/blob/master/README.md
https://github.com/gothfox/Tiny-Tiny-RSS/blob/master/README....
Which ones jump out at you? Which ones are memorable? Which do you want to install/contribute to/star?
(I'm biased because I wrote one, but I was very intentional which how the README looks and reads!)
In Making Your Writing Work Harder For YouRegarding the money thing, remember there are other currencies than dollars.
When I open sourced my own RSS reader[1] some of the "non-monetary currencies" I received:
* Several (non-robot) recruitment emails from well-known companies doing Ruby
* Additional development time from strangers to fix things I wasn't interested in
doing (i18n, performance improvements)
* Additional testing time to iron out all the bugs
* 50-100 "qualified followers" (i.e. other developers/designers) on Twitter, many
thanking me for creating the project - increasing my network reach
* Five people have sent me messages that their merged pull requests were there first
open source contributions - that feels really cool
* Links from two of my favorite blogs - OneThingWell and The Changelog
* Being referenced in a Ruby book written by a
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community leader
* Socially-validated (1.8k+ stars) open source project that I can forever point to
* Material for future blog posts, user group/conference talks
Not all of these have the same value to each person - but for me, they were worth the trade-off. Could I have charged for the software instead? Probably, but I have a day job that pays me well and I enjoy. I wrote the software because I wanted it to exist (one of my favorite things about being a developer) and any extra benefits are just icing on the cake.
[1]: https://github.com/swanson/stringer
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