Uncited
Get picks like this daily. Today's launch numbers, the top launches, AI and tech news, and a daily opportunity pick, straight to your inbox.
Want to reach these readers? Sponsor an issue.
I built a a specialized RSS reader for researchers. It aggregates papers from 3000+ journals (Nature, Science, arXiv, etc.) into a clean, unified feed. It's in beta.I found it difficult to keep up with the flood of new papers across different journals and arXiv categories. Existing RSS readers felt clunky for this specific use case, and I wanted something faster and more focused (more than Twitter/Bluesky)Let me know what you think!
HN · launched Nov 19, 2025 · 12 upvotes (top 43%) · 0 views
Niche: rss and newsletter readers · 63 launches, 8 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Visit website ↗ Source listing ↗
More like this: all 63 launches in rss and newsletter readers →
Could you build this?
Yes This is essentially an RSS feed aggregator tailored to academic sources with a modern frontend and database for tracking user subscriptions and read states.
Discussion
12 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Other journal/paper apps with multiple sources, X (Twitter) for paper discovery
Concerns raised: Landing page requires JavaScript unnecessarily, Comments appear to be from fake/new accounts, Risk of feature bloat degrading performance
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 280 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #119 of 281 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 21 days after the earliest competitor.
- Modern RSS reader with social capabilities based on AT Proto · hn · 2026-09-16 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- I built RSS feeds for podcast guests, not podcasts · hn · 2026-02-09 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- A Free RSS reader with a configurable recommendation engine · hn · 2026-07-14 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- nextgen-reader · github · 2026-11-10 · 102 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- gator · github · 2026-10-19 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- I built a fast RSS reader in Zig · hn · 2025-12-16 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- Rediscover the Small Web with an AI-Ranked RSS Reader · hn · 2026-06-16 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- FeedSense · hn · 2026-04-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
The niche, labels, vibe code rating and competitor comparison on this page are analysis by Nicheloom. If you use them, please credit nicheloom.com. How you may use our data.