RSS has been in a downward spiral for a while now. Readers are shutting down, sites are dropping support, user experience is poor, the standard is fragmented. It's time to revive RSS. Winds is a beautiful and open source Podcast & RSS app. The tech stack of React/Redux/Node enables makes it accessible for many designers and developers to contribute. Lets see if we can leverage open source to kick this trend back into the right direction. You can contribute in many ways. Share you thoughts about new features for Winds 2.1, suggest RSS feeds or podcasts to feature, contribute to the codebase or contact your favorite sites to improve their RSS feeds!

Hi! Any plans on Android app?

So meta when your face ends up on a website for a product which is built using a feed format which you helped pioneer like 10 years ago.

This looks awesome, definitely going to try it out.

Nice to see our friends at Stream doing cool open source things!

As someone who already subscribes to 200+ podcasts, I don't find Winds very useful. What I want out of a podcast app is an easy way to listen to different playlists of podcasts which I subscribe to. I have my essentials playlist, my 1x playback speed playlist, my music playlist, my news playlist, and my undecided playlist. Each one of these playlists provide me with a different set of podcasts which follow a theme, such as news or music. With Winds, it doesn't appear that I can group the podcasts I follow into different playlists. Instead, all of the podcasts I follow are pushed into one big group. This isn't a good situation when one follows more than a few dozen podcasts. Additionally, it doesn't appear that Winds offers OPML importing which means I would need to individually search for and follow more than 200 podcasts to get started. It appears that Winds is all about discovering new podcasts. While podcast discovery can be valuable, there is a certain time and place for discovery. Most of the time I just want to listen to the podcasts I already know and love. Discovery is something I only want to engage with from time to time, maybe once or twice a month. The Winds homepage would be much more useful if it was devoted to mostly displaying content I already subscribe to, such as different playlists of podcasts, instead of new content I haven't listened to before. Nevertheless, Winds is quite beautiful when it comes to UI. The desktop application well designed. I'll keep an eye on this project because I would love to use Winds in the future instead of the horribly buggy PocketCasts app.

Easy to use, highlights podcasts nicely

Pros:

Nice and clean

Cons:

None

Also if you want to submit RSS feeds or Podcasts we should feature, you can do that here: https://github.com/GetStream/Win...

Nice work, everyone!

I found it very easy to use. I was always for a convenient way to read rss in mac. Winds made it possible! Oh, and I'm a podcast producer and a podcast addict. So That's a good reason to love this app. :)

Pros:

Clean design and easy to use

Cons:

None

This looks great! One problem, I couldn't reset my password from around when v1 launched.

I'd love to be able to test drive it w/o being forced to choose 3 topics and signing up before seeing how it works or if I can import my own list from Feedly.

Hi, thank you for create it, is possible create rules for filter the feed I will receive?

Love the look and feel of this. However, there are issues which are preventing me from actually using it. 1) UX issue with the signup flow. I couldn't figure out what the problem was with signup. I was editing all the fields until the button had become active and it seems the password requirement is > 8 chars as opposed to the standard >= 8. This is fine but some feedback on the password constraints would be helpful. 2) I can't listen to any of the podcasts. I was trying to play a a16z podcast and nothing loaded. So I clicked to play another one, paused it, and then clicked to play the a16z one. It looked as though the a16z one was supposed to be playing from the UI but nope, it was the previous one I clicked on. I love the concept and would have loved to play with this if it worked.

Enjoying it so far but have spent less than a day with it. So far so good, but I hope they keep improving it in the future as there a few little nuances that could be made better.

Pros:

Interface invites you to discover new feeds.

Cons:

Lack of on-boarding makes it a bit confusing when you first open the app. There should also be clearer field validation on the sign up.

This looks awesome!

It looks lovely and I appreciate the need for a start somewhere - but my feed reading and podcast listening habits tend to be between my Macbook (albeit via the browser), Android phone and Android tablet. Having my history synchronised across them all is fundamental to how I read and listen, so a stand-alone desktop client is unlikely to be something I'll attempt to work with. Good luck with the platform's development!

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@tschellenbach I wanted to give it a try but it won't let me import my feedly OPML file.

It says available for iPhone and iPad but when i go to the app store it doesnt let me download it.