Why I've Built Syndicator
My own Google Reader alternative.
Over the last two months, I’ve done all my news reading through Syndicator. It’s an app I built, and I’m releasing it to the public now.
Syndicator is a ranked, personalized reading app. It pulls news sites, blogs, YouTube videos and Substacks into one place, then learns from what you actually read, skip, save, and share.
Algorithms have a bad rep, but I 100% believe they can be fantastic when they’re optimized to help you. I don’t want the app to be “engaging”. I want you to open it, scan everything that happened, and close it for the day. Follow everything, miss nothing.
No folders, no tedious manual organization. Just read and save what you’re interested in, and Syndicator will adjust on the fly. It also groups overlapping coverage so you can compare framing across outlets.
Syndicator is designed to provide a great reading experience. It can distill pages and show you just their text. Supports keyboard shortcuts for all key actions. And it can be installed on desktop or mobile as a Progressive Web App.
You can make your profile public and follow other people. The articles and posts they share end up right in your feed. And your profile even has its own RSS — it’s basically a linklog. Here’s my profile.
Syndicator is free in beta. Sign up here!
