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• The Rise and Demise of RSS

  Same! I use Feedbin (https://feedbin.com/) to aggregate new posts. On desktop, I'll sync Feedbin up with NetNewsWire (https://netnewswire.com/). Substack and Medium both support RSS. You can just type /feed after the URL. e.g., tk.substack.com/feed and tk.medium.com/feed For other newsletters, I use Kill the Newsletter (https://kill-the-newsletter.com/) to subscribe via RSS. - Source: Hacker News / 23 days ago

• RSS Is Awesome

  Inoreader has that on some of their pay tiers. I use my own self host freshrss instance and https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ to accomplish the same. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• RSS Is Awesome

  You can subscribe to newsletters with any RSS reader nowadays, but it’s a multi step process requiring the use of an external (free) tool. 1. Create a feed on https://kill-the-newsletter.com/. This will also give you a custom email address to send your newsletter to. 2. Subscribe to the newsletter with the custom email address and add the feed you created to your reader. This setup works very well for me with... - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• I've been advocating for RSS support, and you should too

  Also: https://kill-the-newsletter.com for use case 3. Free service with no signup that works reliably. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• I Ditched the Algorithm for RSS–and You Should Too

  You can can create an RSS feed from Reddit. You can't to my best knowledge create an RSS feed anymore from Twitter Newsletter to RSS: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ More stuff: Blogs & RSS. - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago

• Building a smarter RSS feed for my newsletter subscriptions

  In this article, I’ll share a tool I recently built for my personal use, driven largely by intellectual curiosity. Although I was aware of services like Kill the Newsletter!, I wanted to create a service that generates a personalized RSS feeds for my newsletter subscriptions. I wanted the feed to do more than just list content — it would provide summaries of featured articles and topics shared in newsletters I am... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• Show HN: I made an open source Mailchimp RSS-to-Email alternative

  I prefer it the other way around: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Ask HN: Who Wants a Penpal?

  Alias: clestro interests: Classic rock, psychology, cybersecurity, privacy, hacking, startups, Linux, FOSS, onebag, skateboarding, playing guitar/bass, bouldering, vinyl records, muscle cars, magic tricks, improv, standup comedy, nyc/bay area. language(s): English link to something you think is cool: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ contact info: clestro12@outlook.com (will disable once spam starts to come in). - Source: Hacker News / about 1 year ago

• Show HN: ADHD STASH. A curated collection of ADHD friendly products and services

  It would work the same for me, if only because I'd redirect the email to my RSS reader (via Feedbin[0] or Kill the Newsletter[1] or similar)! I suspect most people who care about RSS would do the same, but the Webflow docs[2] show it being pretty straightforward to set up, and (imo) it's an easy backup hedge against all your comms getting stuck in spam filters. Plus, it just feels more ADHD-friendly to me to... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: What tech newsletters are you currently subscribing?

  Https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ might be a useful adjunct to this post. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

• Best RSS feed extractor (from URL)

  And little Bonus: https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ - like the URL say, redirection of Newsletters in an email-box to fetch them as RSS-Feed, instead to have them not in your regular Mailbox (also good for Pages that gives you no RSS Feed or whatever to follow them in that way as Workaround). Source: about 2 years ago

• RSS Autodiscovery

  "Kill the newsletter!" at https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ is one of my favorite tools that does exactly what you're asking for! - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Style Your RSS Feed

  Actually, “newsletter readers” exist in a form already with email-to-RSS. https://kill-the-newsletter.com/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Style Your RSS Feed

  I found out a tool that convets emails back into RSS, it even provides a custom e-mail address that you can use per feed. It can be self hosted, or used on their website (which is ad free): https://kill-the-newsletter.com. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Ask HN: Which substacks do you read as soon as it hits your inbox?

  > I wish I could read it via RSS I do this using https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ -- it's a great service. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• With Reddit sunsetting, I'm looking back to RSS. What are the best current tools?

  A rip: you can subscribe to RSS feeds of YouTube channels and subreddits. Use something like Kill the newsletter to convert email newsletters to RSS feeds (there's self-hosted alternatives to this, as well. See side panel, I don't have experience with those). Source: over 2 years ago

• List of Berlin & German companies raising funds in April & May (with career pages link)

  Https://handpickedberlin.com/ website won’t accept https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ emails (an email to RSS thingy). Is that intentional? I’d love to have your content in an RSS reader as opposed to the email client. Source: over 2 years ago

• Reddit admins go to /r/modnews to talk about how they're inadvertently killing third-party apps and bots. Apollo, for example., would cost $20 MILLION per year to run according to reddit's new API pricing. Mods and devs are VERY unhappy about this.

  Recently there has been a move toward email newsletters, and those often serve the same or similar purpose, and there are services like https://kill-the-newsletter.com that can put those into an RSS reader as well. Source: over 2 years ago

• I recap the news from 40 media everyday with GPT-4 coupled with ML and NLP

  Https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ seems to be a good way to transform the newsletter into a RSS feed! Source: over 2 years ago

• Vore: A new RSS feed reader

  Lots of X-to-RSS has popped up in recent years, and a good portion of websites still support it under the hood. KilltheNewsletter[0] is a great email-to-RSS generator, for instance. And RSSBridge[1] has all sorts of x-to-RSS bridges available. There’s even a website[2] that allows you to turn public Telegram channels into RSS feeds. [0] - https://kill-the-newsletter.com/ [1] -... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

• Serve emails with a webserver?

  There are also some services out there that turn email into rss. No need to receive the email yourself if you don't want to. Source: over 2 years ago