Four years after shelving a homemade RSS reader and selling off its $500 domain, the writer built it this year with Codex and Claude. They use it daily, along with 30 other strangers who found it public.
Result 30 strangers now use it too
“And then, with Codex and Claude, I finally built it this year and enjoy it every day, along with 30 other strangers, since I made it public.”
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About four years earlier, the writer had started building an RSS reader meant to use an algorithm, but dropped it since they hadn’t coded in years and weren’t familiar with the modern web stack. This year, they built it with Codex and Claude and made it public.
They now enjoy the reader every day, along with 30 other strangers who use it too, and also built a few Chrome extensions and a browser-based note-taking app the same way.
Help me build [a personal RSS reader] that fetches and organizes feeds the way I want, from scratch, even though I haven't touched [web development] in years. Start with [core feature] and we'll iterate.
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