Pondering features

At some level Feedgrab is at 1.0, feature complete. For the most part it does what I set out for it to do. As a daily user there are some obvious improvements I’d quite like, such as auto-fetching the full article content when the RSS contains only an excerpt, or viewing feeds by most recently read, or swipe functionality on mobile (quickly dismissing articles, mainly). I’ll probably get around to these, but as a free (donationware - hint hint) app, I can’t commit too much time to it. 

Other features on my mind are a new view for the main articles page that looks a bit more like a social media feed, and a weekly email digest for reminding you what you missed. The latter feels more like a ‘premium’ feature, but my recent experience of B2C software suggests that getting people to pay anything for an RSS reader in 2024 will be a stretch!

Quite a few people are using Feedgrab every day now, so if you’re reading this (you got automatically subscribed to this blog when you signed up, so hopefully you are!) then I’d love to know how you find it, what’s a bother, how I might think about monetising it, and what one thing would delight you if it was added.