I recently discovered minifeed, and it has quickly become one of my favorite things on the internet.
Minifeed is a curated blog reader and search engine. We collect humans-written blogs to make them discoverable and searchable.
Once, maybe twice a day, I load the homepage and browse through the latest posts from real blogs written by real humans. I almost always find something surprising, delightful, weird, or just plain fun to read. Even better, I come away with a new blogger to follow.
From the minifeed About page, there is a self-imposed deadline to decide if the service is worth maintaining:
I have been building and using Minifeed since December 2023 (see changelog). I will launch it publicly by the end of 2024, allow paid subscriptions, and keep actively working on it for 1 year (until end of 2025). In December 2025 I will make a public announcement choosing between one of 3 options:
- Given enough interest and support from users, continue to develop and maintain Minifeed for the long term.
- Given little, but not enough interest, run it for as long as the money lasts.
- Given no interest, shut it down and allow users to download all their data in a simple, usable format.
I sure hope they start charging soon. I’d love to see the service last.