<story><title>RIP Google Reader</title><url>https://www.ripgooglereader.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conesus</author><text>It was in the summer of 2008, three years after Google launched Reader and had at least 5 million users, when I decided to write my own RSS reader. There were just so many features I wanted that I knew Google would never build and for some strange reason I thought I could make money with my own opinionated take on a news reader.&lt;p&gt;Then at 4pm on March 13th, 2013, I got an email from Nilay at The Verge asking if I&amp;#x27;d heard the news. That was a difficult month as I scaled (and wrote about scaling[0]), since by then Google Reader had 10 million active users. After Reader was sunset, about 5 million found their homes on the news readers that remained.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s strange to think that naively competing with one of the big platforms paid off, but there&amp;#x27;s plenty of companies that did well in the wake of a giant choosing to ignore the ecosystem near their feet.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.newsblur.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;45632737156&amp;#x2F;three-months-to-scale-newsblur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.newsblur.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;45632737156&amp;#x2F;three-months-to-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>baumy</author><text>At some point a year or two ago I googled around for &amp;quot;best rss reader app&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;best rss news app&amp;quot; looking for android specifically, and I don&amp;#x27;t remember seeing newsblur talked about anywhere. All of the ones I did try (aggregator, feedly, inoreader, etc) were unsatisfactory in various ways.&lt;p&gt;I just downloaded and tried newsblur and it&amp;#x27;s pretty much perfect for my taste and needs. Going to try it for a few days then will likely become a paid user. This comment is coming from a place of relative ignorance, but have you considered investing in a bit of marketing, or a bit more if you have? For how good this app is among rss readers, it doesn&amp;#x27;t seem as discoverable as it deserves to be.</text></comment>
<story><title>RIP Google Reader</title><url>https://www.ripgooglereader.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>conesus</author><text>It was in the summer of 2008, three years after Google launched Reader and had at least 5 million users, when I decided to write my own RSS reader. There were just so many features I wanted that I knew Google would never build and for some strange reason I thought I could make money with my own opinionated take on a news reader.&lt;p&gt;Then at 4pm on March 13th, 2013, I got an email from Nilay at The Verge asking if I&amp;#x27;d heard the news. That was a difficult month as I scaled (and wrote about scaling[0]), since by then Google Reader had 10 million active users. After Reader was sunset, about 5 million found their homes on the news readers that remained.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s strange to think that naively competing with one of the big platforms paid off, but there&amp;#x27;s plenty of companies that did well in the wake of a giant choosing to ignore the ecosystem near their feet.&lt;p&gt;[0]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.newsblur.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;45632737156&amp;#x2F;three-months-to-scale-newsblur&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;blog.newsblur.com&amp;#x2F;post&amp;#x2F;45632737156&amp;#x2F;three-months-to-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>JustARandomGuy</author><text>Thanks for NewsBlur! I’ve been a paying customer since Reader got cancelled.&lt;p&gt;I recommend NewsBlur to everybody: super uptime, great API, integrated with IFTTT, and supported by a lot of good mobile reader apps</text></comment>