I’ve been building an app for the last year. It’s not the one I thought I was going to build, but I realized one day I’d gone so far, it’d be a waste not to see it through.

It’s finally in a good enough state that I think I can share the beta with other folks so I can really learn where the rough edges are.

Introducing LightWatch, a visual RSS watcher. It’s your feeds, but just the images and videos.

https://getlightwatch.app

LightWatch - A Visual RSS Reader for iOS

A visual RSS reader for iOS

I’ve still got some work to do. Gotta add the real paywall, and I think discovery will be an endless improvement cycle. The app lives and dies on having good content. Without the algorithm that a social network has, you have to supply feeds and unless someone comes into the app knowing exactly what they want (basically only me), it’s hard to immediately catch the hook. There will be much work in the future suggesting cool feeds to follow and the experience around it.