One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings)
Details
- External ID
- 46602227
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings)
- Website domain
- workers.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 13, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.41699604743083
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- rss feed aggregator for hacker news bloggers
- Manually corrected
- False
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 — 131 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #82 of 132 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 69 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success · hn · 2026-05-03 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- ReadHn · hn · 2025-12-25 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Uncited · hn · 2025-11-19 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hacker Atlas · hn · 2026-09-25 · 86 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- HN Insights · hn · 2025-11-22 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- I analyzed 297k HN posts · hn · 2025-12-30 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
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