beehiivYour reading lives in four places. A newsletter in your inbox, two blogs you check when you remember, a competitor’s changelog you only see when a customer mentions it, and the news.
None of it is urgent. All of it is easier to read when it’s in one place you already open every morning.
What the board shows
Paste a feed’s address and its newest posts land as a live feed on your board. Each row is a title, a line from the post and how long ago it went up. Click one and it opens.
You don’t need to hunt for the feed, either. Paste a blog’s home page, and if the page names its feed, the board finds it and tells you where. If it doesn’t, the board says so instead of guessing.
Any RSS or Atom feed works. Blogs, podcasts, a competitor’s changelog, a status page that publishes one. Your own GitHub releases have one at github.com/owner/repo/releases.atom.
For the news there’s no address to find at all. News headlines has 16 feeds ready, from BBC News, The Guardian and NPR to TechCrunch, The Verge and Ars Technica. And Hacker News has a source of its own, from the front page to Show HN.
Where the posts come from
The board reads each feed on its own server while the board is open, on the schedule you pick, from every few minutes to once a day. No account, no key, nothing to install.
If a feed can’t be read, the widget keeps the last posts it had and says what went wrong and when.
Feed text is shown, never obeyed. When you work with Claude in the chat beside the board, anything that would reach a new address or remove a widget waits for your say-so, so a post can’t talk the board into doing something.
Why read on a board
A feed reader is another app to open. A board is the screen you open anyway, for revenue, for your agents and for today’s calendar. Put the reading there and you might actually get to it.