FeedMail Reviews and details

Questions & Answers

1. What makes FeedMail unique?

   FeedMail is a no-nonsense, low-cost RSS-to-Email service. Buy credits and get notifications. Notification emails support rich formatting from the feed itself without adding much borders and formatting that cramps the content.

2. What's the story behind FeedMail?

   Kevin had been using other RSS-to-Email services for 8 years and despite paying for the premium plan wasn't fully satisfied with the offerings. He decided to make his own and make it available to others.

3. Which are the primary technologies used for building your product?

   FeedMail believes in simple and reliable code. It is written as a Rust service powered by a PostgreSQL database.

4. Who are some of the biggest customers of FeedMail?

   FeedMail is primarily used by individuals.

Social recommendations and mentions

• Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?

  Tool for easily transferring files between my devices. https://filepush.kevincox.ca/. Blog post about the implementation: https://kevincox.ca/2022/11/02/decentralized-via-webpush/ RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/ Tool for identifying grids in D&D map images https://gridfinder.kevincox.ca/ A solver for the Ricochet Robots board game https://ricochetrobots.kevincox.ca/ A tool for quickly picking a first... - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: How did you earn your first $100 and first $1k online?

  My first $100 is getting fed up with my existing feed reading and making https://feedmail.org/ available publicly. First $1000 is still crickets, but I'll probably get there soon. But I'm not really trying to profit, I just wanted a better reader for myself and figured I would make it available. Making it paid is mostly to greatly reduce the abuse opportunities. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• E-mail notification to Proton Status no longer available?

  If you want faster updates you can use my service https://feedmail.org which updates this feed every 15min. It is paid but with 400 free updates you should be able to use the trial for years. Source: 11 months ago

• How to receive email when certain RSS feed is updated?

  Hi. I run a service just for this https://feedmail.org. It is a paid service but there is a 400 email free trial for you to test it out. It is very cheap after that. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Do you use RSS? If yes, which reader do you use?

  I use RSS-to-Email then read them in my mail clients. Most things get routed to a few folders without notifications that I open when I want news. I'm using my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org but I've also used https://blogtrottr.com/ in the past. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Help Finding the Best RSS App Mac/iOS

  The only reader I know off the top of my head that has this built-in is the one I operate, FeedMail. But I am sure there are others. Source: about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

  I've been using RSS-to-Email services for almost a decade but wasn't really happy with any of them. So I launched https://feedmail.org/. I never really expected to make money (and the service is priced to be very low-cost without a huge margin) but currently we are approximately breaking even (about $20 negative after 13 months). So it looks like in the long-term it will probably pay for itself. But the main thing... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• RssCloud, WordPress. FeedLand, and Dave Winer

  My feed reader service is https://feedmail.org. The simplest instructions for WebSub are those on the public Google hub https://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/. But there are other public hubs available or you can run your own. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use in 2022?

  I use my own RSS-to-Email service https://feedmail.org/. I've written about my setup and why I prefer RSS-to-Email on my blog nearly a decade ago https://kevincox.ca/2013/06/27/email-as-rss-reader/. I used to use https://blogtrottr.com which I do still think is a good product, they just didn't quite fit my needs so after about 8 years I ended up creating my own. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• What RSS reader do you use?

  I now use my own RSS-to-email service FeedMail (paid, free trial) but used Blogtrottr (free with ads or paid), for 8 years before making my own. Source: over 1 year ago

• Use RSS for privacy and efficiency

  Been using https://feedmail.org/ to do exactly this. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Is it possible to only show certain RSS-catergories?

  Https://feedmail.org/ supports filtering by category and sending mail. You can select to include just the two categories that you have mentioned and receive email to an address of your choice. Source: over 1 year ago

• Feedburner - which sent posts via email - is now defunct - good alternatives?

  Hi, I had a similar problem to you. I was using Feedburner emails to provide a newsletter option for my personal blog. I looked for alternatives but I didn't like the way they presented my feed, usually stripping all formatting or adding ads. Between wanting to provide a newsletter for my personal blog and not being a huge fan of the service I was using to subscribe to other people's blogs I ended up creating my... Source: over 1 year ago

• Best RSS Reader

  I used other services for years but eventually made my own to fix limitations I found in them. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

  I built https://feedmail.org because I wasn't satisfied with the existing RSS-to-Email services available. I figured I would really just be making it for myself but decided to make it a product and have made a few hundred dollars in the first months. It pays for the hosting costs and gives me some motivation to work on it. It's also been surprisingly stable and my monitoring is good, so if I am not actively... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• RSS not working properly.

  I use a service that I created myself called FeedMail. It doesn't support reliable real-time updates (up to 5min depending on the feed) unless the feed supports WebSub. So it probably isn't what you want here. Source: almost 2 years ago

• How do you usually read your RSS feeds?

  I run FeedMail which I now use. It is paid with a trial. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What RSS aggregator do you use?

  There are a few. These days I run my own, https://feedmail.org. But for many years I used https://blogtrottr.com/ which also has an ad-supported free tier if you are looking for that. Source: almost 2 years ago

• low-interval RSS Feed Reader

  Depending on the feed FeedMail can do 5min updates. But there is no manual control. Disclaimer, I am the owner. Source: about 2 years ago

• Inoreader, Feedbin BazQux or NewsBlur

  I operate [FeedMail[(https://feedmail.org) which is an RSS-to-Email service. I've been reading my RSS feeds via my email client for years (I recently remembered that I wrote a blog post about this option almost a decade ago) and I find it has lots of advantages:. Source: about 2 years ago

• Is there an online RSS reader email service which connects to wordpress and allows news readers to opt in or opt out on different news categories (which have their own RSS) without having to set up countless of different RSS email campains?

  Hi, I run FeedMail which may fit your needs. It allows opt-in or opt-out by category. Source: about 2 years ago