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I like the look of it. However, before I give you access to my data some more information on how it works, who you are, why I should use it, etc. would be nice.

That said, I hope you this gets traction. We need more options.

Hey there, good questions! I'm a developer in Toronto, Canada and I love to ride bikes and write code. I work at a place called Unspace (http://unspace.ca/team), I'm the third one down (Jamie Gilgen).

Yoleo is a self funded project. I would like to keep it that way if I can. That's why donations are very welcome. I do however offer Yoleo up for free for those who are unable to pay. Yoleo is written in Ember, and is backed by Rails.

I'm really into Ember, and helped out out by teaching a portion of the most recent Embergarten (http://unspace.ca/embergarten/) here in Toronto.

The import is a simple one click import, I've directly integrated with Googles Reader API.

You should use it....because it's good?

Hope that helps!

Please force SSL/TLS on the accounts page if not everywhere (should be everywhere)...You're currently sending Stripe payments over http
I checked and the strip communication is done ajax style through https. I don't see a problem.
This is true. Also, you should be redirected to https when you go to /account if things are working how they're intended. I don't run the full thing through SSL quite yet, because I pull in content from lots of different sources (images, for example), and that would cause SSL warnings.

I have something in mind for this, but haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. Full SSL is coming.

For sure?

I thought Stripe blocked that specifically.

Nice to see someone from Toronto. Good luck with the project!
I agree; a bets minimal option set would be the ones most used on G Reader as far as I can tell:

* Option to hide any unread feeds on sidebar (totally essential for me) * Unread count on feeds with new items * Ability to edit and rename folders

If any of these are there already.. I can't find em. Thanks for this great-working and great-looking site though!

Looks beautiful, interesting pay model. Seems like enough people still use RSS readers...

Just 2 feature requests:

1.) Let us change the one color :) That red is pretty, but distracts from the content. Dustin Curtis got this right on his minimalist design in that the one-color isn't used in the actual content.

2.) Responsive design: Iv'e been removing apps from my phone for weeks and I couldn't be happier. Far less annoying update badges. Also, as something that is open all the time it would be great to keep it in a smaller window than the current design allows.

Great work!

Agree - the red is way too much.
We can tone down the red if enough people think it's jarring, I love this kind of feedback!
I would probably start with removing the red from the titles first. Removing the red completely would take away from the overall design which is too nice to mess up.

I always think a straight forward headline/copy relationship should be achievable with spacing, and maybe font-size before adding bold or a color.

If it's still too much (remember, this is an every day kind of app!) maybe the active links on the right could go non-red, then if it's still too much the border-left on the active links on the right.

Again, grats on shipping something that looks good.

Too much space wasted across the top too. Looks promising though.
I think it's working really well, but take all options here with a grain of salt.
Well I think the color works really well. Sparse whitespace punctuated with red. It's clearly well though out. And I like it.
Looks like it's written in Ember.js—nice!
Indeed!
Firing up the the Angular vs Ember debate again here. What's your take?
Wait--there is a debate here? I'm wholly unfamiliar with js -- which is better, and what is the debate?
If we're picking this battle up, can everyone also argue a bit about the backend? I've been with Django for years, but I'm tempted to get back into Rails with how well it seems some of the JS frameworks are supported.
Why would the {front|back}end framework matter to the {back|front}end?
Also, should I develop with Vim or Emacs?
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It would be nice the possibility to import also from other sources other than Google. At this point many people stopped updating their feed on Google Reader.
Agreed. I have my feeds in Newsblur now.
Yeah, I moved to self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS after Bloglines went down. OPML import would be great. On the flip side, OPML export is also a requirement for me - I don't want to re-enter all of my feeds.
Clever name! I pressed "import" and it claims to be importing my feeds from Google Reader, even though I never gave it a password or feed or connected through Google. I wonder how that works...
You're in a queue, you are going to be redirected to auth as soon as your turn is up. There are a bunch of people trying to import at the moment.
This looks pretty fantastic. I've been searching for a good browser option outside of Feedly, which just doesn't do it for me. I agree that more information about the product and the people behind it would be nice, however, I'm still eagerly signing up when I get a chance today. :)
Is there an API?
Yep, but it's not public yet.
Looks like Active Model Serializers under the hood? Looks good from what I can see.
Yep :)
Any chance of open-sourcing it? Following the same model as newsblur.com
I see that as something that could happen in the future, when I get enough revenue to run yoleoreader.com. That's my primary concern.
Is a website, is beautiful, is easy to use, has an API. You've hit on the first three, so when the API becomes public, I am so using this.

Are you hosting this yourself? Do you expect $9/year members to adequate cover the costs? I'd totally be willing to pay more if it means I don't have to suffer through another shutdown.

A few people have mentioned wanting to donate more. I could make a few more options for the donation amount. I figured I was on the high end at $9/yr. People don't like paying for software anymore.
Just so you all know, the import queue is currently building up rather quickly, so imports might take a little while.
theoldreader.com just chokes on my 100 feed list, and feedly has just been flaky for me. Here's to hoping this works well with a mobile interface!
The mobile interface isn't responsive yet. I have users with over 400 feeds, so it should be all good!
So far, so good. But the importing from google reader is hella slow. Guess a lot of people are trying it out right now.
Yep, the importer is working away on the queue.
Hey Jamie - it'd be great if adding a subscription was a little more intelligent re: RSS url discovery. For example, I initially entered `daringfireball.net` and got a URL misformatted error. I subsequently tried prepending http:// - when really I needed to include a fully qualified path to the feed in the first place.

Otherwise, happy to import from Reader and check this out. I like that it feels light and easy to use.

You should be able to enter a bare url. I looked into it and daringfireball.net doesn't provide a rel="alternate" for their rss feed so my little feed discovery ditty won't work for them.
They do have <link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" href="/index.xml" /> though, so you might want to check for that as well.
Interesting - yeah, I picked it to test simply because I figure whatever Gruber is doing is probably a good base line test case.
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Instead of calling it a donation, just call it the 'pro' version and add like a supporter badge on the header or let them do something silly like change the color of their header like on HN. Will probably get more funds that way and won't get cynical people to roll their eyes at questionable use of the word 'donation' whether it is or not.
I was calling it a donation, because I do offer the service for free.

I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features.

That's the point - the "pro" version only gives you a silly, feel-good feature, but it (might) increase revenue when people feel they're actually getting something.
"I wanted to offer the service to people that might not be able to afford it, and not have them punished by having fewer features."

That's neat, why don't consider some kind of sponsorship program? A user that can pay, can sponsor one or two more users who can't, that would be nice :)

It's difficult to scale an RSS reader as you could quickly start having to crawl orders of magnitude number of feeds more than you are now as you get more users, if power users like your thing. I know because I worked at Bloglines. You're either going to need money or you will shut it down eventually.
I have faith people are going to pay if they use it and like it.
Alternatively, keep calling it a donation and let people donate whatever they want, with $9 as the minimum. A good RSS reader is worth a lot more than $9 a year to some people.
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I like this :)

I don't want to differentiate people who can't pay.

i like this idea vs "pro"
Yeah, but we're all geeks here. It can't be that hard to splice together some custom CSS to make hacker news look like whatever you want. Let me just click view source and OH GOD PG FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY WHY ARE YOU USING NESTED TABLES IT'S 2013!!?!?!!111questionmark!

Sorry, blacked out for a minute there.

You'd think a site called Hacker News would be more hackable...
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Maybe they're so l33t they've wrapped around, and thats why they're using tables...
ahhahahahahha! You're funny
been there, tried that. ended up just using some basic css rules to keep it from crawling apart to 1080p :(

  @namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
  @-moz-document domain("news.ycombinator.com") {
    body > center > table {max-width: 960px;}
    .default {padding-right: 22px;}
    textarea {width: 100%;}
    form {padding-right: 18px;}
  }
= less eye strain
Actually this has been asked here before and pg himself did answer the question [1] (you may have to scroll a little to see pg's response). pg also argues in one of his essays [2] that tables are the (lisp) lists of html, being very dynamic and flexible which is perfect for explanatory programming despite being unclear (in its purpose/structure) sometimes.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=100460 [2] http://paulgraham.com/arc0.html

Wouldn't divs be a more appropriate analogy?
Please. Make it a paid service and charge $9/month, not year.
I agree with this. PLEASE make a paid version, otherwise your project will end in the same place where all those other free RSS readers ended: in archive.org

The problem with these kind of services is that if they are free, a lot of people won't pay for them and might use so many resources that the money paid by the few people who donated or paid will not be enough to sustain the service.

Sorry for the tone, but I am so tired of seeing lots of mini-web services turned off because they were free... Nowadays I downloaded Vizzy for Mac: although it is not the most pretty RSS reader, I know it will be working forever.

Hats off for the notification that popped up as I was trying to import telling me that HN traffic bogged you down. That was very classily and well done.
Definitely made the difference between "not loading, closing the tab" to "wow, that was awesome, I will gladly wait and see where this goes".
For me, it wasn't just that it popped up a notification, it's that hitting the arrow on the popup gives you a reply-to window with the text of the notification already filled in. Really made me feel welcome.
Import doesn't work, but the notification system is very sweet and unexpected. Can't wait to try this out with all my feeds. So far none of the 'son of reader' offerings have really done it for me.
nice job! but, i went to http://yoleoreader.com/account, there's a box for entering credit card. On page without ssl ...
the credit card information is transmitted to stripe over SSL. It looks fine.
Is there a way to add folders so that I can keep my feeds organized?
I'm going to be deploying this very soon.
I signed in/up using Google, and it's busy importing my feeds right now, and they appear to be going into folders.

I don't see a way to arrange the folders though, which would be a big plus. If I can force an order through some naming convention that's OK too.

Just a follow-up. A day has passed and the import looks stalled. I'll keep checking for the next few days.
"Yo leo" in Spanish means "I read", I don't know if this is a coincidence :).
as long as it's not a play on YOLO :P
Would be cool if I could add a bunch of feeds at once, so I can migrate more easily from a non-google reader.
I did make the feed adding as streamlined as I could. However, I realize that it does pause for 5 seconds after adding the feed.

<a> -> enter url -> <enter> should be all that's needed to add a feed.

It looks nice, but I personally prefer more readable font. Source Sans looks gorgeous, but maybe use 400 instead 300 on body text. Or use darker color.
Noticed a minor error on the front page: "consider making an donation".
I just realized that I can't export my feeds from feedly. Please somebody say I am wrong
It looks nice, and at this point in time, this is what I'll probably be using next month.

A few things:

* Is there a way to scroll through all items in the same way that Google Reader does, rather than having to go to the next item by clicking (or hitting "j")? Feeds with lots of images suffer from the current approach, since there's a delay when each item is loaded (preloading them, say, five items in advance works well).

* Hitting keyboard controls like "j" when Firefox's "search when you start typing" is turned on doesn't work. I think you need to return false in the keypress event handler (or whichever one it is).

* I would suggest changing the body font to black with a weight of 400. I have Source Sans Pro installed, and at 300 #606060 it's too light (in both senses of the word). It looks nice enough, but the main purpose of this is for reading, so using the most legible font possible should be a priority. (Tip: 15px Arial looks a lot nicer than 16px, IMHO. It's what I was using when I made 90% of a feed reader.)

* Yep, just hold "n" or "space" and you'll scroll through the articles * I'll look into that. * I'll try to gather some more feedback to what people think about the font. Perhaps it would make sense for this to be configurable.
I agree on the font-weight. Go for legibility first and beauty second. Personally I prefer 16px myriad pro.

Love it though! Will definitely use :)

This looks pretty cool. Is there a example instance set up anywhere so I can see what it is like without signing up?