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I’ll add https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer to the self-hosted list. It is my reader of choice since I think over ten years. Never had the feeling of looking for another one.

comment by contradictioned · 2025-10-08 · in The RSS feed reader landscape

I use stringer https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer I self host on docker been running reliably for a few years without issue.

comment by destroy-2A · 2023-09-14 · in The end of tweeted articles

And: - NewsBlur: https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur - Stringer: https://github.com/stringer-rss/stringer - CommaFeed: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed - Yarr: https://github.com/nkanaev/yarr - News app for Nextcloud:…

comment by trynewideas · 2022-12-23 · in RSS Readers That You Can Self Host

…not great if you plan on following lots of feeds in different categories, but it's perfect for me: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by andolanra · 2020-10-02 · in Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?

https://github.com/swanson/stringer -- I built an RSS reader a few year agos with the same ethos: "Stringer has no external dependencies, no social recommendations/sharing, and no fancy machine learning algorithms. But it does have…

comment by swanson · 2016-11-11 · in Winds – An Open Source Personalized RSS Reader

https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by snvzz · 2016-04-26 · in O Reader My Reader – Remembering Google Reader

Obligatory plug for Stringer, my personal reader of choice: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by davefp · 2016-03-15 · in Show HN: Convenient web rss-reader

…Dead easy to set up and does away with all the social stuff that I never used in Google Reader https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by davefp · 2015-11-13 · in Self-hosted alternatives to popular cloud services

…would be awesome to get a small kickback from DigitalOcean. [1]: https://buttons.heroku.com/ [2]: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by swanson · 2014-10-31 · in Show HN: “Install on DigitalOcean” button for open source apps

…EDIT: Setup was pretty smooth - one click deploy for my RSS reader now: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by swanson · 2014-08-07 · in Introducing Heroku Button

https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by swanson · 2014-06-13 · in Ask HN: Which feed reader do you recommend trying?

…m/samuelclay/NewsBlur/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/SSilence/selfoss/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/swanson/stringer/blob/master/README.md https://github.com/Athou/commafeed/blob/master/README.md…

comment by swanson · 2014-05-19 · in Making Your Writing Work Harder For You

…my favorite things about being a developer) and any extra benefits are just icing on the cake. [1]: https://github.com/swanson/stringer

comment by swanson · 2013-07-07 · in "Just open-source it" is not realistic

…I am available 4-8 hrs/week to help kick ass on your Ruby/Rails/Sinatra projects. Recent work: https://github.com/swanson/stringer - anti-social RSS reader https://www.moraleapp.com - daily team mood tracking Contact: matt at mdswanson.com

comment by swanson · 2013-07-01 · in Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2013)

…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…

comment by swanson · 2013-06-25 · in Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

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.

comment by steffoz · 2013-06-24 · in Ask HN: what alternative to Google Reader have you chosen?

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

comment by swanson · 2013-06-23 · in Ask HN: Which self-hosted RSS Reader have you switched to?

…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

comment by zackhall · 2013-06-02 · in Ask HN: So - what's the consensus on a Google Reader replacement?

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.

comment by swanson · 2013-05-31 · in Ask HN: What is your most popular GitHub repo?

…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.

comment by bitboxer · 2013-05-22 · in Ask HN: Have you settled on a Google Reader replacement?

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

comment by swanson · 2013-05-22 · in Leaving Google’s silo: Alternatives to Gmail, Talk, Calendar, and more

…version. Maybe a good time to learn git?) Mobile web works OK and hopefully will get better: https://github.com/swanson/stringer/issues/7

comment by abrowne · 2013-05-19 · in Commafeed: An Open Source Google Reader Clone

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.

comment by swanson · 2013-05-16 · in Commafeed: An Open Source Google Reader Clone

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

comment by swanson · 2013-05-09 · in Ask HN: What's the best Google Reader replacement?

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 :)

comment by swanson · 2013-05-03 · in Show HN: Stringer, a self-hosted anti-social RSS reader