I'm SUPER excited to announce the launch of Rad Reader! 🤩

A calm tool (OSX, Linux & Windows; 6MB & Electron-free!) for reading and following RSS feeds. I've been working on this for the past months during spare time and it's my first journey in making something polished enough to sell!

To celebrate its launch the price is reduced to 4.95 USD (34% off) for the rest of the week! If that feels like a lot, please try the free demo!!

Boosts very much appreciated!

📚 👉 https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader

Rad Reader by Alexander Cobleigh

a cross-platform RSS reader

itch.io

On the philosophical side of things: with the release of Rad Reader I'm trying out a new model of sustainable software production.

This tool has had a lot of thought, time, and care put into it, I would like to continue doing so with this + other projects. Crafting tools is made possible by the food I eat and the shelter I habitate, and I can't pay for either of those with Github stars or toot likes.

So the model I'm trying out with Rad Reader is this:

1. Release the software with a paid price
2. Common the software and its source code once a number of sales has been reached, converting it into free software in perpetuity from that moment on

I don't know how/if it will work out, but I *am* excited to explore new models of making ends meet while also making new software happen :)

Final: If you want a lifetime license (with no accounts and no subscriptions) for a calm #rss reader on Windows or #linux (~6MB binary), 10+ themes with liveloading of your theme tweaks + ability to make your own, a reader that is capable of reading the feed bundling format .opml and with built-in automatic export of your feeds *back* to .opml to prevent lock-in and LOTS of other nifty bits

Well then, please consider buying Rad Reader! Thank you!

https://cblgh.itch.io/rad-reader

Rad Reader by Alexander Cobleigh

a cross-platform RSS reader

itch.io

@cblgh This looks really cool. My one request would be some sort of support for some common RSS feed sync servers like FreshRSS, but I could honestly live without that because of the OPML importing/exporting.

Great work, will consider picking this up :3

@arch thank you arch! i will look into the feed sync servers you mention :)