One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings)
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Built this RSS aggregator based on the 2025 HN Popularity Contest rankings by Refactoring English [1]. If there's interest in other slices (top 10, top 200, etc.), happy to add them.[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46478377
HN · launched Jan 13, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 58%) · 0 views
Niche: news aggregation platforms · 244 launches, 12 in the last 7 days ▼ -54% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 244 launches in news aggregation platforms →
Could you build this?
Yes It is a basic serverless script on Cloudflare Workers that fetches a static list of RSS feeds, merges their entries, and returns a single XML document.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: feed readers (for aggregating feeds), rss.style (feed analyzer tool)
Concerns raised: unclear value proposition vs standard feed readers, lack of control over aggregated feed content
Feature requests: human-readable feed output (RSS styling), add missing HTTP headers for feed readers (cache optimization)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 208 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #118 of 209 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 69 days after the earliest competitor.
- Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions · hn · 2026-01-02 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Show HN submissions have tripled since 2023 · hn · 2026-01-11 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success · hn · 2026-05-03 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Wikihack · hn · 2026-11-02 · 339 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- ReadHn · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Uncited · hn · 2025-11-19 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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