OpenOrb
Productivity
feed search
SHOW HN2024
259points
56comments
#284of 3,515 in 2024
Top 9%of 2024 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 3 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Good idea; a curated shared search over feeds is appealing.
From 3 comments
I really like the idea! At some point I put up a miniflux instance and it has surprisingly been a breath of fresh air for my content consumption. What miniflux and my setup lacks…
gbrindisi on HN've been thinking that I needed one of these, but you've already made it happen. That's really great.
JohnSSS1978 on HNNice! I was thinking about the same kind of tool a while back, and developed a community-based curated feed reader with full-text search. It's not public yet (sign ups are behind…
freetonik on HN
Objections
Search relevance is weak; results miss the query terms.
From 1 comment
I really like the idea of feed/entry search but it seems to not return very relevant results... if I search for "software defined radio" with or without quotes I get lots of…
beaugunderson on HN
Ten feeds give little recall compared to large indexes.
From 1 comment
> If you put your 10 favourite blogs in there, it'll search just those blogs... 10 feeds will not give you much recall. I have 50K+ feeds, 1M+ posts, and it just starts to give…
derekzhouzhen on HN
Index has very few blogs, so results skew technical.
From 2 comments
This is a cool idea. When I search for "history" it returned only technical articles, and heavily favored dan luus website. Are technical blogs the primary focus?
lbhdc on HNI believe the instance currently has very few blogs indexed: https://openorb.idiot.sh/feeds But you can deploy your own instance and add any blogs you want.
freetonik on HN
Requests
Save or retrieve previously read posts.
From 2 comments
I really like the idea! At some point I put up a miniflux instance and it has surprisingly been a breath of fresh air for my content consumption. What miniflux and my setup lacks…
gbrindisi on HNsometimes I stumble into stuff I’m sure I’ve already read something about in an article but if I didn’t bookmarked or made a note of it it’s very hard to find again (miniflux…
gbrindisi on HN
Share a large list of RSS feeds.
From 2 comments
Tangentially on this note, if anyone is interested, I can produce a list of every RSS feed known to the marginalia search crawler. It's a pretty noisy list, but any thing I can…
marginalia_nu on HNI think the community would be interested in list and you'd get a lot of downloads if you offered it up.
djoldman on HN
Questions
Are technical blogs the primary focus?
From 1 comment
This is a cool idea. When I search for "history" it returned only technical articles, and heavily favored dan luus website. Are technical blogs the primary focus?
lbhdc on HN
Alternatives named
Miniflux
From 2 comments
I really like the idea! At some point I put up a miniflux instance and it has surprisingly been a breath of fresh air for my content consumption. What miniflux and my setup lacks…
gbrindisi on HNYou can set the age to arbitrary points in the past, if storage isn't a concern. I've actually found miniflux's search feature fairly solid for dredging up old stuff I've read!
gen220 on HN
Recess feed reader
From 2 comments
I'd be keen on this and would import all of them into Recess (https://app.recessfeed.com) - also working on RSS adoption and discovery!
yakkomajuri on HNSomeone compiled this a while ago which is a pretty good starter list for content discovery: https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs I've imported most of them…
yakkomajuri on HN
Minifeed
From 1 comment
Nice! I was thinking about the same kind of tool a while back, and developed a community-based curated feed reader with full-text search. It's not public yet (sign ups are behind…
freetonik on HN