A little history about our FreshRSS-powered info service
It started out as a simple project during my graphic design studies: I wanted to collect all the websites about design that I came across in my study material. At first it was nothing more than a list of links.
Then I discovered a neat piece of software called FreshRSS. It could aggregate multiple RSS feeds, let you log in, organize things—basically, all the good stuff. So I went through my list, added every site that had an RSS feed, and set it up on a VPS under its own domain. You basically create your own news feed.
That was the version most people knew and used—and I was thrilled that it actually became useful for others. But then things happened: servers failed, the VPS was destroyed, and that version of the service had to come to an end.
Months later, after reminiscing about how cool it had been, my partner had a simple but brilliant idea:
keep FreshRSS as the backend, but use social media accounts as the frontend. So we went to work.
Here’s how it works now: we favorite an article in FreshRSS → that article appears in a favorites feed → that feed is posted automatically to social media, one article at a time.
After waiting for more than a month to iron things out, we christened the project MedienFeed (“media feed” in German). We rebranded the accounts, improved the setup, and expanded the scope, because it’s not just about graphic design anymore, but also the many neighboring fields it overlaps with. Moving from grafikfeed or grafikdesignfeed to a unified product called MedienFeed just felt right.
And here’s the best part:
It works. It runs. It exists. No more tuning. No more anxiety. Just a solid little service that does what it’s supposed to. A project not abandoned, but finished.
You can check it out here:
Mild celebrations are in order 🥳
Quelle: Code & Canvas