Reams
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RSS, 2020 style
Adam Butler
Reams — Deeply superficial RSS
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I've used RSS for years, but it often felt like a chore to get through instead of a pleasure. Reams makes RSS loveable: it uses a complex layout engine and a little bit of AI to make every story beautiful. It turns your feed into your own personal magazine.
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iNilay
I used the app few days ago before seeing it here on Product Hunt, and I must admit that the design is rather nice. My only fear is that RSS is in a disappearing mode of media consumption, but I would strongly suggest it to anyone who still use it.
HIMANSHU CHHABRA
I wish it was available for windows so that I could have tried it out
Adam Butler
@himanshu_chhabra maybe one day? React Native can work on Windows, so it wouldn't be impossible. I'll let you know if/when it happens!
Adam Butler
I've used RSS for years, but it's always bugged me that reading RSS feeds feels like a chore, a pile of paperwork I have to get through, instead of a pleasure. I love reading, and I love the experience of losing myself in text and images, so I wanted to make something that made that possible. Four years later, I'm proud to present Reams: a new approach to reading on the web, conceived from the ground up to help you find and read more about things you love. With AI-driven layouts, delightful interactions and powerful features, Reams focuses on the immersive pleasures of text and image. I call it as "deeply superficial", but what does that even mean? Well let's start with superficial: the surface of Reams doesn't look like anything that's come before it. Reams puts the content of the sites you love front and centre, rendering stories through a layout engine that bring RSS's traditionally plain-text lists to eye-popping life. Where keeping up to date with your favourite corners of the web used to feel a bit like reading tax returns, swiping through your feeds on Reams is like flipping through your personalised, beautifully art-directed glossy magazine. It's a pleasure, not a chore. But what about the "deeply"? Well, Reams understands the power of immersion: by displaying the content in all its full-bore glory, it enables you to really go deep, to lose yourself in what you're reading. The source code is at https://github.com/admbtlr/reams. Oh, and I made a website and movie for it at https://reams.app/. Hope you like it!