Feed Me

I like news feeds that include multiple different sources so that I get a diversity of perspectives and information. Its a bit frustrating to use the Google or Reddit news feeds because many (if not most) of the sources are paid content and I certainly am not plannning to pay for all of them (I do pay for NYT). News readers such as Feedly let you pick your own sources but if I put in the full list of sites that I like then that can result in 100’s of articles a day, making it a challenge to find the ones that are the most interesting for me. Some apps have AI ranking but they’re typically in the paid subscription. So I decided to build my own reader with a customized feed list and an inexpensive-to-run AI ranker. Try it out at feed-me.us.

How it works

1. Add RSS feeds — paste a URL or search by site (Feedsearch under the hood)
2. Describe your interests in plain English; an LLM parses them into positive and negative topics
3. A small embedding model scores every article by similarity to your interests, blended with a vote centroid from your recent likes and minus a dislike centroid — both decay over 30 days so ranking tracks your current preferences
4. Your feed splits into Relevant (ranked by match) and Unranked (by date); the threshold is yours to tune, and every score has a breakdown you can inspect (touch the circle on the bottom right of an article card). I find the Unranked feed just as interesting as the Relevant one because its always a bit of a surprise.
5. Tap a source name for per-feed Focus (show only this feed source) or Mute (turn this feed source off for now); share a curated set of feeds with a friend via a one-link import; install to your home screen as a PWA