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Kudos for making the source code available and allowing to self-host the service.

If you are thinking about making some money with it, maybe one twist would be to be to offer a SaaS "proxy" between the newsletter and the subscriber, where subscribers enter their real email and search for newsletters they are interested in and convert them into a feed? Although TBH I'm not sure there is money in RSS readers...



Hi iagooar,

Author of Kill the Newsletter! here. Thank you for your idea, but my intent is not to make money with this. Let alone get a hold of users’ real email address :)


Also a few tweaks

- make the UI easier to use on mobile

- make feed title and feed URL fields appear together at the same time

- send a test post to each newly created feed so I can confirm it's working

That said, I'm not sure if OP is actually the author based on taking a glance at commit dates in the repo.


Hi tedmiston,

Author of Kill the Newsletter! here. First, thank you for your suggestions :)

> - make the UI easier to use on mobile

I don’t own a phone, can you please be more specific on the difficulties you had? I’d be happy to address them.

> - make feed title and feed URL fields appear together at the same time

To which screen are you referring?

> - send a test post to each newly created feed so I can confirm it's working

That’s a good idea. Of course, the sole fact that the feed exists with the title you gave is already confirmation that it’s working. Even if there are no entries. And, right after creating the feed on Kill the Newsletter! the user is probably going to use the email address the service gives to actually sign up to a newsletter. Upon doing that, the newsletter provider usually sends a subscription confirmation email that shows up as a feed entry. Still, I think one more confirmation wouldn’t hurt and I’ll add it.

> That said, I'm not sure if OP is actually the author based on taking a glance at commit dates in the repo.

You’re correct. I don’t even know ProfDreamer, but I’m glad he liked my work enough to post it. Otherwise I wouldn’t have received feedback such as yours :)




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