[toast0]

> Funny that he mentions Yahoo! Pipes, since that was sort of the same idea behind Zapier, et al., though (I guess) too far ahead of its time.

An alternate business model is to look at Yahoo product launches from 5-10 years ago, and build what they did but shut down, its time may have come. Google did this pretty well for a while. You can probably do it for Google now, too.

[ramraj07]

You mean the time is right for a Google Reader alternative?

[scrollaway]

Maybe. Might not specifically be RSS-based, though, there's a lot of good RSS clients out there (I use https://bazqux.com/ - it's great).

Google Reader I remember sold itself as being an "inbox for the web". I think Reddit and Facebook are the big competitors for that idea… not RSS clients. But maybe the time is right for a new take on that idea, one that works more closely like Reader.

[wyclif]

Didn't Feedly already meet this demand? Seems like almost everybody I know who used Google Reader back in the day switched over to Feedly.

[scrollaway]

I don't think this is about a replacement for those who miss google reader; rather, a reinvention of it, whose time maybe has come.

[enitihas]

7 years ago maybe.

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