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294 points zerojames | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.001s | 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").

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stanislavb ◴[] No.42477757[source]
I created something similar a few years ago. It's been running fine for me and several other people. Its free, too. It's calm too, although it updates as often as 1-5 minutes.

I'd be happy if someone gives it a go and shares some feedback. I'd say it's quite similar to Artemis; however - you can set different priorities to the sources and the relevant topics.

Cheers - lenns.io

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1. szszrk ◴[] No.42477995[source]
It would benefit from a screenshot of the actual UI. On mobile there is little that would make me want to register.

You know how we are with creating accounts just to have a glance...

The description looks solid to me, though.

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2. stanislavb ◴[] No.42478732[source]
Fair enough. I’ll setup a demo account, too.
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3. szszrk ◴[] No.42478933[source]
That would be perfect.

A newspaper-like projects always gather interest of tinkerers. People love to do things like that for eink devices, export that to pdf to be displayed offline and so on

This could be a nice way to provide clean content, prefiltered.