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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: * 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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Yep - I have the same approach. My subscriptions generate 5-10 posts a day, I look at them once in the afternoon, mark all as read and move on. Open sourced mine here: https://github.com/swanson/stringer - it's <10 minutes to deploy an instance to Heroku and be on your way. All the data is in your own database - do whatever the hell you want with it.

I love Stringer — https://github.com/swanson/stringer Minimal, self-hosted, great codebase, implements a clone of Fever's API so it can be used with any mobile client that supports Fever.

https://github.com/swanson/stringer https://github.com/Athou/commafeed https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur https://github.com/socketubs/leselys https://github.com/glynnbird/birdreader

I think that I'm going to try out a self hosted solution for a while. For no other reason than just the fact that it seems fun. Here's one that was posted to HN recently: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

https://github.com/swanson/stringer by far I've noticed that very few projects are able to get a high star count without 1) a clear value proposition in the README 2) screenshots, screenshots, screenshots.

Basically I am waiting for the Reeder App Guy to Announce what he will do with the app. If he goes the "give me an google api compliant endpoint and it will connect to it", I might use https://github.com/swanson/stringer , looks really promising so far. But I need Reeder to support it first.

I'm quite happy with own open-source Reader replacement: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

I just got around to trying Stringer. Great job. I've said this before, but right now, this is my favorite! First, I can confirm the install on Heroku was indeed only a 5-minute job for me — an intermediate-advanced OS X/Linux command-line user, but not (yet) a developer, and not a previous Heroku user. I need to use it for a few days to make sure, but at first glance I love the simple interface. It's like Google Reader's full-screen mode, but with a decently narrow reading column. The font size and line-height aren't my absolute favorite, but since I'm self-hosting I can just change the CSS! (I will have to learn how to update the stylesheets and still be able to keep updated to the current version. Maybe a good time to learn git?) Mobile web works OK and hopefully will get better: https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7

Sounds like you might like my reader: https://github.com/swanson/stringer. No social features by design and if you've got a heroku account you can have it deployed in under 5 min.

I built my own: https://github.com/swanson/stringer Self-hosted, no social crap, no 3rd party dependencies, run it at http://reader.yourdomain.com, keyboard shortcuts

Thanks - mobile is on the todo list: https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7 Wanted to get the web version out first. It is usable now but could definitely use some love :)