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Show HN: Artemis, a Calm Web Reader

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294 points zerojames | 5 comments | 20 Dec 24 15:28 UTC | HN request time: 0.201s | source

Earlier this year, I made a web reader that only showed a list of post titles, author domains, and links. The reader only updated once per day, so I wouldn't feel compelled to keep checking for new posts.

I have been using the tool, which I called Artemis, for several months. Every morning, I looked forward to my "morning paper" of blogs I love reading.

There are no notifications, read vs. unread states, counts of posts, etc. Only the last seven days of posts are available. The colour scheme is changeable. Dark mode is supported. All popular feed formats are supported.

There is no reading interface to read blog posts; rather, the links take you to the authors' websites. Many of my favourite bloggers put a lot of effort into the design of their blogs and like to change things up; I wanted an experience that embraced that.

The reader is now available for anyone to use (with invite code "hn").

1. aurea ◴[20 Dec 24 15:40 UTC] No.42472027[source]▶
I have been thinking of creating a similar app; however I wanted to do a "Sunday paper". This look nice and I like the minimalist design, but I would prefer to have solution that I can self-host.
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2. exprez135 ◴[20 Dec 24 18:00 UTC] No.42473244[source]▶
The tool actually is open source, so you could self-host it if you wish. MIT license, in Python. The repository [1] is linked in the blog post the author wrote about the project [2].

[1]: https://github.com/capjamesg/web-reader

[2]: https://jamesg.blog/2024/11/30/designing-a-calm-web-reader/

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3. zerojames ◴[20 Dec 24 18:40 UTC] No.42473603[source]▶
The open source version is a bit different from the hosted one: the open source code involves running the polling script, then building a static site (which is how I run the site for several months as a single-user project).

I am planning to move the polling changes upstream soon and then figure out a plan for open sourcing the full project.

4. stanislavb ◴[21 Dec 24 05:35 UTC] No.42477747[source]▶
I've been thinking of it, too. And, I've created one a few years ago. It's been running 100% uptime and for free since then - lenns.io. I'd be happy if you give it a go and let me know what you think.
5. rakoo ◴[21 Dec 24 17:50 UTC] No.42481054[source]▶
sfeed (https://codemadness.org/sfeed-simple-feed-parser.html) has basic infrastructure to do that