Superfeedr Blog

XMPP always had a special place in our heart. It’s an amazing protocol which comes with presence, addressing, as well as PubSub baked in. It’s no surprise we’ve had an XMPP API since day 1 at Superfeedr. Now, though, XMPP scares a lot of people because of it’s X part:...  

As the web now flourishes with new feed readers, we have decided to help that community by simplifying the subscription process as it is still extremely complex for a user to say “I want to know when there is new content here”. Today, we’re excited to launch the SubToMe Store....  

Two days ago, a security flaw in OpenSSL was made public. This flaw, named Heartbleed is Catastrophic in Bruce Schneier’s words, because it exposes a chunk of memory from any vulnerable server. After checking thoroughly, we found that our servers themselves were not exposed as we currently use an old(er)...  

A couple weeks ago (before the Google Reader demise!), we soft launched SubToMe as a universal subscribe button. As weeks passed, we tried to promote it. We offered a SubToMe Wordpress plugin, a Chrome Extension, a Firefox Extension… etc. Yet, several people came to us and said: Why is it...  

As we’re been providing APIs to build feed readers for years now, last week, we saw a flock of people coming to us and asking if we could help them overcome the disparition of the Google Reader API. Replacing the Google Reader API Superfeedr will provide a partial replacement for...  

In the various list of Google Reader alternatives, we found out that a lot of indie hackers were either hosting their own reader or even creating one. These people usually decided to build their own pollers because they could not afford to use Superfeedr for such a low volume of...  

The truth is that eventually, the ones deciding of the RSS fate are not going to be subscribers, but publishers. Publishers, big (media outlets, blogging platforms) or small (indie bloggers or CMS users) can easily decide whether they want RSS to die or to thrive. Break RSS If you’re one...  

The death for Google Reader will surely bring a gigantic wave of innovation in the RSS Reader ‘market’. We’ve shown yesterday that there are many many alternatives. Superfeedr is in the business of making RSS easier, we’re introducing a little, simple (baby step thing which we hope will make a...  

So Google Reader is shutting down. This is obviously worrisome, mostly because the deprecation schedule is tight. But this is also a great news because Google Reader stopped innovating 5 years ago and yet was still the most visible RSS reader out there. When people said RSS was dead, a...  

SubToMe is a universal subscribe button. One of its key design goals was to use only static files. There should be no server involved: it’s not an app, it’s a button. Another key aspects of the SubToMe button is that it’s included on many page, and needs to be able...