If You Can Imagine It, Do It

I recently read Kevin’s post about building his own client for reading RSS feeds. Like him, I follow a lot of them, and I consider my feeds the one great source of information besides podcasts. If a site has no feed, chances are I never visit it. Like Kevin, I built1 my own RSS client. I put in the font I like, the actions I find most convenient, the FreshRSS front-end, the ability to manage sources and folders, and a few features like Kevin’s, plus others I don’t know about but that he’d implement in 3 minutes – translating posts that aren’t in my language, or a structured summary of an article, for instance. And I’ve noticed that, like Kevin and like me, from reading Reddit now and then, dozens of apps like ours are popping up. Today, for these small tools, there really is no market anymore: if the solutions are aimed at a more or less nerdy audience, the odds of making something that is in any way sellable keep getting lower. AI, from this point of view, has been a great help to…

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