skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been a Google Reader user since the beginning, and have had an uneasy sense that this was coming for a while. I started building a replacement for it that fits my needs a couple months ago.

It's not ready yet, but I thought I might as well toss up a launchrock page and collect email addresses from other folks who might be interested: http://signup.viafeeds.com

Here are my guiding principles:

1. It's going to cost money. I refuse to 'lose money on each customer, but make it up on volume.' I imagine that for more casual users, this'll be a nominal amount. I won't compromise on this because....

2. I want to build something sustainable, and have it be enough of a profit center for me that I'm willing to focus on it and continually improve it for years to come.

3. I want to build something that I'll love more than Google Reader. I spend at least an hour a day in Google Reader, and want to make sure that whatever I build has the simplicity of Reader.

I have a lot of interesting ideas I want to try out around inclusion of contextual information and the ability to easily save or share articles or clips of articles in multiple ways. From conversations I've had with friends in the journalism world, there's a real need for a product like this, especially one with a legitimate business model.

Regarding where this fits in relative to NewsBlur: I think NewsBlur is doing a lot of interesting stuff, but it feels heavyweight to me, compared to Google Reader. I want a very minimalistic, "just the facts, ma'am" experience.

What do you want to see in a news feed product? Where do you think Google Reader could've or should've been in 2013 if Google had properly maintained it?

Anyway, to reiterate, if you're interested, head over here and enter your email address: http://signup.viafeeds.com (I just created the domain an hour ago, so hopefully it'll have propagated to your DNS server).
Dear Mr President, you must use an executive order to stop Google from shutting down the reader service. Thanks, ~everyone.
Yes: http://abbottnutrition.com/Products/jevity-1-cal
Was thinking the same thing - usage has declined in part because Google doesn't promote it.

Google shapes the way many people discover, use and keep information (google search, maps, news, finance, gmail, etc). To let Reader languish then kill it because "usage has declined" is rather self-fulfilling. I bet if they didn't update their satellite images and road data, Maps usage would decline as well.

They could have been working with the community to define new standards - tags, markup, etc - to allow richer interaction between rss readers and sites (thinking geoloc micro format work, and other semantic markup work in recent years). Making 'reader' a first-class citizen in its suite of services, then using interaction data as more relevance signaling seems like an evolutionary step that only a handful of players the size of google can make good use of, but apparently in their infinite wisdom, they'll just shutter it.
You can get an RSS file (well, Atom) for any feed that includes all posts going back to whenever google reader started following it. Normally if you get the RSS from the originating site it'll only have the latest 20 or so posts, and there isn't a standardized way to get the history.
See. The thing is. I haven't found ONE solution that imports starred items, unread items, and feeds properly besides Reeder. And it doesn't work on Android or on the web. :(.
It actually is pretty decent.
Is this any good? Do you have the ability to customize it yourself?
While the product has a loyal following, over the years usage has declined.

That will happen if you stop developing it and ignore requests for new features. Conesus has done a good job with Newsblur and I'll try going back to that, but I really wanted to have Gmail-style filtering of my RSS feeds in Google Reader, to to mention being able to maintain my sharing/tracking data within the Google ecosystem.

This is a major failure on Google's part. Complaining about a declining user base when the product was left to stagnate amounts to blaming the users for the company's lack of vision. Why Google would want to abandon this extremely rich source of behavorial data and trend emergence is beyond me; it suggests a loss of direction, for which short-term reactivity is no substitute. Put another way, you can't lead the herd by following it faster. I am shocked.

As I say, I've used Newsblur before and thought it OK - at the time I just somewhat preferred Reader's cosmetics. So the above is not just a reaction to the necessity to switch platforms.
Well I used "we" continuing ruther's sense of "programmers in general". I didn't really do APL myself. I think it was Alan Kay who said: we needed to make APL to know what going too far looked like, that way we could stop wondering if we could do better by going further.
You can easily monetize RSS, you can get some of the best information about a person about the content they consistently subscribe to. All their targeted advertising would have been all the better targeted at people if they intelligently used their subscription information.
Dangerous quack science. Convincing people of it has the very real potential to kill people.
Hypothesis: "soylent" contains everything your body needs.

If consumption of "soylent" reveals some nutritional deficiency, then you should be surprised, because that means our hypothesis is incorrect! Your expectation should confirm the hypothesis, not negate it.
Screw you, Google. Now I need to spend my own time to write a replacement as there is no viable alternative.
I have, over the years, experimented with all of the RSS reader alternatives and found them to be lacking. Especially in handling the volume of feeds I subscribe to (I subscribe to thousands of feeds, see it as a stream to dip into, not zealously sop up every item, and browse through).
Makes me wonder whether a service that stores a feed list and simply spits out an email for each new item would be so bad.
Thank you. I've tried newsblur, but I just hadn't had the impetus to switch until now.

<RSS>"Rumors of my death are much exaggerated"</RSS>
If you use Firefox, I highly recommend ItsAllText. It lets me right click on a textarea and open the contents with my editor of choice. When I save the file, whatever I wrote is automatically copied back over to the textarea.

Bulk indentation is one of the main reasons I switch over to vim for editing web text.
It doesn't pass unread items though.
the millionaires "next door" that i know do both. suburban california families worth a couple million bucks or more (white and asian tech and biotech industry families), i have seen:

* buy shiny new luxury cars... but drive them for a very long time. they also buy used cars because they have lots of cars (3-4+ per household)

* buy brand new apple products constantly... but also use 10 year old PCs and other old tech

* eat out and buy overpriced organic groceries whole foods ... but also buy bulk stuff at the not-rich-people supermarket because they cook too

* go on expensive vacations.... every 3 years

this stuff is not black and white, and it's really ridiculous to hear stuff like "millionaires don't buy the shiny new toy" .. yes they do.
Yeah, I'm far more worried about the fact that pretty much all the iOS rss readers use Google Reader as a backend.

I'm going to be fubar for keeping different apps across devices all in sync...
I just exported my Greader profile into Akregator. Now to research if someone wrote an import of reader favorites JSON, or if I should just write the extension myself.
List of Google Reader alternatives
http://alternativeto.net/software/google-reader/?platform=on...
CISPA is simply not about the interests of rightsholders.

The commenter to which you are replying did not make that assertion. The mention of IP was an attempt to identify the source of the confusion between cybersecurity and IP rights, not about CISPA specifically. Here's what the parent comment actually claimed:

When I look at what's being proposed I see that the government is using its sovereign power to trade away my right to civil suit against a company in event of a data loss, in exchange to that company for it handing over private information (that very well can include customer information) without a warrant. In big broad, abstract ways this is to my benefit if it improves "cyber security" but it also removes some specific rights I have....

And the civil liability immunity agreement (as I understand it) in CISPA will effectively act as a giant gift that only a sovereign power can grant, we'll offer you protection from being sued if you just hand over business data without a warrant.

Nothing about rightsholders in there.
> CalDAV API will become available for whitelisted developers (only)

Wasn't a big brouhaha about windows phone only supporting Exchange protocol and not the open standard that's used by everyone: CalDAV? Oh, and now Google is discontinuing it! Let's see how much longer Exchange will last...
There are dozens of Greasemonkey scripts on userscripts.org dating back to 2005 that do exactly this and more

You answered your own question: this is kind of different because it is not a greasemonkey script and thus targeted at a different audience.
Speaking of Twitter, I just checked my feed to find that a huge number of people I follow (from tech nerds to game developers to independent journalists) are upset that Google Reader is dying.

This seems like a huge mistake. Why doesn't Google want to be the one place I can go for everything? They should be cultivating that kind of brand loyalty, not stomping all over it.
I have plenty of feeds that include ads. Reader shows all images and links that are part of the feed body so not going to the site should not be a problem.

If an ad supported feed provider fails to add ads to their feed they just do not understand the medium. One of the core ideas in RSS is to avoid visiting all the subscribed sites!
Google Announces They Will Close The Book On Google Reader In July
Bricklin's background in business was minimal, but he created a product that revolutionized business processes more than thousands of acclaimed gurus.

Musk absorbed a few books on rocketry (see my related comment) and constructed an accurate theoretical model before hiring anyone.
I have thousands of websites inside Google Reader which serves me as a personal sub-internet. With archive and quick search within feeds was so much valuable for me. It was the only service of Google that i use second only to Gmail.

I think they made a quick short headed cost analysis in this, that archive and search functionality needs server power. Actual userbase does not provide enough money juice to balance.

Now, let the alternatives pour in.
I want to comment and mention that yes, we have talked about this problem before, and when we do, it does get heated.

Her position isn't going to change much, not without me constantly cracking a whip and building equal resentment on the other side.
Greader will preserve its own history of a feed, including deleted items and feeds that go down, given someone on the Internet was accessing it, Google caches it.

It means when a website is taken offline, if you are subscribed to, say, a content RSS feed through them, you can still browse the history and content.

I just switched to Akregator, which will locally cache feeds (and you can configure it to do so permanantly) but it is a local copy. You can host your feeds via a feed host through it, so I imagine what I'm going to do is run Akregator off my server box, archive my feeds, and access it from my servers ip.
Interesting. I always thought this form of writing was to cut down on the number of words in an email, so that the reader can more easily skim for the overall message, while also reducing formality and increasing familiarity. I've even recently tried to start emulating this style for those reasons.
Are they really shutting down the CalDAV interface to Google Calendar? (I'm not sure what the "API" bit means, or the "whitelisted".)

As of now, CalDAV is Google's recommended way for syncing with iOS devices http://support.google.com/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&a...
Linux will let you allocate as much memory as you want. It doesn't ever return failure based on available memory. Instead if you attempt to write to memory it will then map memory and if there is none available it will trigger the OOM killer. The kernel will attempt to kill misbehaving processes.

The 4GB limit is maximum memory that can be allocated to a process (this is configurable)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OOM_Killer
Does that import everything or just the list? It would be nice to be able to import all the content as gotten from here:

http://www.dataliberation.org/google/reader
Good alternative for Google Reader
Here's a throwback to the bad old "best viewed in 640x480" days from pcmag: http://i.imgur.com/TJEMjvy.png
While I mostly agree with the author's conclusion, which matches my anecdotal experience, the argument presented seems a little weak... I'd be interested to see some data backing it up, though I imagine it's a hard thing to quantify.

Somewhat related: I lost ~90% of my belongings when my apartment flooded during Hurricane Sandy, which has totally changed my perspective on the inherent risks of material ownership. It may seem like a good idea to pay a 50% (or even more) premium for some items because "it'll last way longer than the cheap alternative" but if it gets catastrophically destroyed, the point is moot. The best thing you can do for yourself as a renter (assuming repurchasing everything you own would make a significant dent in your savings) is to buy renter's insurance WITH natural disaster coverage - most standard renter's insurance coverage does NOT cover natural disasters but it is usually available for not too much more. In general, you can expect to pay less than $200/year (often around $100/year) to insure an apartment, which is a small price to pay for peace of mind.
My first reaction is to tell you to act on the shareholder agreement and change the equity. Buy her out if you can. You build a new team. You have already waited too long.Great friends do not make great partners. However, you may be better served by having a trusted advisor speak with both of you individually, then together, to mediate. There may be more going on here than you know, and if there is a chance to clear the air and start afresh, you should find that. Finding cofounders is hard. You must have a trusted advisor that can do this for you -- it's part of why we have advisors, no?
First, we don't know what the components of a healthy diet are. We thought we did decades ago, but were blissfully unaware of micronutrients (and, as I understand it, infant formula from around this time made a bunch of babies have developmental disorders as a result). Second, we're quickly realizing that nutrition is significantly more than the sum of its parts. Nutrients taken together as opposed to separately can have significantly different effects. Calories in also doesn't necessarily equal calories absorbed.

It's a crappy analogy, but imagine this guy was trying to construct a human body out of parts. He's wired up a brain, muscles, blood vessels, nerves, a lymphatic system, and all the rest to a skeletal system. What do you think his chances of success would be?
I started using NewsBlur about two months ago on a whim after using Google Reader for many years, and I really dig it.

It was super simple to import my feeds from Google and I find that the navigation in NewsBlur lets me read/scroll through items (and ignore articles that aren't interesting) much faster than Google Reader.

Anyone looking for a Google Reader substitute, definitely give NewsBlur a try!
OccupyGoogleReader
Let see if we can a difference.
It's worse than that. The google plus era redesign of all google sites ate up a massive fraction of the vertical space in Google Reader. And some social sharing features that made google reader an awesome place, were disabled in favor of sharing via google plus.
Well, I just exported my entire feed history to Akregator. It imported smoothly. I'm probably going to look into a qt 5.1 based port of it to Android if someone isn't already making it just so I can have my feeds on the go as well.

That is my biggest concern, I really like the UX of the mobile reader app for browsing blog entries.
Then check your shareholding agreement, talk to your lawyer, and move carefully.
From my limited understanding of startups, that's quite normal.

I'd suggest first trying to really 'get' that it's perfect just the way it is. No really, it's perfect. And it's perfect that you want to do something about it.

Then you will be in a space to choose if you WANT it to work like it is, or find a new co-founder, or have it work a completely new way.
Yes, their historical data can't be rebuilt. A little bit like what happened with USENET and Google buying DejaNews. Nobody has that data.
https://getsatisfaction.com/feedly/topics/chrome_app_permiss...

This answered here.
Yes, absolutely. Use GCM (or XSalsa20Poly1305) whenever possible.
Another option is to get pocket for chrome which adds an icon to google reader items and thereby allowing you to save your starred items to pocket.
What might a fusion of Chrome OS and Android look like, from a technical perspective? This talk of a grand business strategy glosses over the technical differences between the two systems, which go deeper than the primary input method and full-screen versus overlapped windows.

I can think of two more salient differences:

1. Both systems are based on the Linux kernel, but Android is based on a custom libc (Bionic) and various Android-specific things (like SurfaceFlinger and AudioFlinger) held together by an Android-specific IPC system called Binder. By contrast, Chrome OS is much closer to a typical GNU/Linux stack; in particular, AFAIK, it's based on X11 and GTK.

2. Android supports persistent on-device storage, whereas Chrome OS only supports ephemeral storage.
Actually, there has been negative innovation. When google+ launched, they removed all of the sharing/social features (which I used heavily, had a large network of friends) to try to drive more users to google+.
Alternative list on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Google-Reader/What-are-the-current-mult...
Sure. I guess what I'm trying to get at here is that, while I'm not fond of the Everything Is Magic approach rails often takes, I actually think this is one case where it was an entirely pragmatic effort to work around a poorly developed area of the ruby language when a program gets large (in terms of files, lines, or both). And Bundler.require is an evolution of that practice.
Brevity in Design
It sounds like your under resourced... Years for achieving your goals? Time to rethink your entire organisational route.
I have upvoted your remarks, not because I agree, but because they are a classic example of head-in-the-sand thinking and should be paraded as such.

As a young developer I was often told "you can't do that" or "stop jumping to solutions" and as a now much, much older and very slightly wiser man I recognise that these were the knee-jerk fears of threatened reactionaries stuck in their ways, not the wise voices of experience that they thought they were.

As someone else implied, the appeal to authority is one of the least credible forms of supporting argument.
At a bare minimum, people using lightboxes for images should have the link actually point to the image, and have the click handler both open the lightbox and suppress the default click behavior. That way, opening the image in a new tab (with a middle-click or right-click+context-menu) still works as expected for users that want to do that.
So I love Google Reader, been using it from the very beginning.

I love offline clients, quite often I'm stuck in a remote location where 3G has yet to penetrate so I like to have a couple of hundred items to read which will sync when I reach connectivity again.

I need the RSS service to track what I've read across multiple devices and have the client support offline usage. Any recommendations?
Reader was the only thing that made me almost want a Google account. A real shame to see it shut down -- I don't think any competitors are as good.
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Is the software any less useful because it's not created in a trendy language?

One of the advantages that PHP has is that virtually any cheap web-host in the world can run it. It's not a bad choice to sell a self-hosted product in PHP because of this advantage.

I'm not a huge fan of PHP for many types of projects, but I don't see how it benefits anybody to reflexively hate on something just because of a technology choice.
that could break a lot of sites that use a cdn for speed :-(
PhantomJS solution for rendering landing pages on the server is so gross!
Beware! This app is a gazillion times simpler than Google Reader.

I'm putting this out there in case anybody finds it useful. I made it years ago but never got around to promoting it. The idea was an online bookmarking app that tells you when the bookmarked pages have changed, and for technical reasons it eventually turned into a simple news feed reader.

It also supports drag and drop and for browsers with side bars (damn you Chrome!), it works... in the side bar.

I've moved onto other things but if you're really into it, get in touch and I'll try to move your data from Google Reader.

http://bookmarkchamp.com/
None that I know of. But the question remains is whether websites will want to provide a syndication mechanism similar to RSS. Google apparently thinks that it isn't worth maintaining and they are just the ones aggregating the feeds. RSS feeds won't die and will definitely be used in various niches such as podcasting. But if RSS feeds are losing popularity as Google claims, I am worried about their future. Combined with the fact they are probably harder to monetize, I would not be surprised if their days are numbered on most common websites. And that sucks, cause RSS readers always felt like using a cheat code on the internet and I don't find anything that replaces it to my satisfaction.
It's also about driving writers to Google+.
Comparison of feed aggregators
It is natural to have week to week ebb and flow in performance but the first step to fixing it is agreeing to observe it.

One solution is getting an independent party, ideally someone you both trust, and get him to review both your performances and give you each feedback on a regular basis.

We do this at our start-up by doing quick review calls participated by each of the 3 founders along with a fourth independent party who gives his honest feedback on our day to day performance.

Sure, you put in 60-70 hours and you feel she puts in 60-70% of that, but a bigger question is, is that all needed? You are assuming that your thinking about your start-up 24/7 and constantly being concerned about it is automatically adding more value than her. I know because I've been in your shoes. The answer is not always that you are fully correct.
The Top Problems With Customer Surveys
In 21st century western civilization, most of us are incredibly wealthy. We live like kings of old able to eat produce and spices from the far corners of the earth.
I'm kind of the opposite of this guy, in that I'm probably a "foodie", I'm a member of slow food, etc. But I have thought about something like this. The thing is that I love food and eating, but I don't get a lot of enjoyment from meals that I eat alone at home, which are usually breakfast and lunch. I would love to just not think about them at all and that would also free up additional money for better meals and drinks with friends and dates.

I don't think the liquid approach he is going for a good one though from a mechanical anatomical view. Bulk provides important functions, especially in the colon. Not having it in the diet could mean if he did end up with a girlfriend, that first date could be spent in the bathroom.

I think my approach would be more along the lines of a porridge with some supplements added in.