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Show HN: I created a feed of interesting content for myself (feedium.app)
10 points by Zakuzaa 1355 days ago
I stopped using Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok etc long back for various reasons. But that left me wanting a simple feed of interesting content because I think that really has some value. So I built one for myself using public APIs and free datasets. I have been using it for couple years now. Thought I should share it wth HN, because why not.

Here’s how it works: every few minutes, a cron job fetches content from various APIs and datasets and populates a database table ‘cards’. When you open feedium.app, you are shown some cards from that table chosen randomly. That’s it. :)
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Swarup_Tripathy 1352 days ago
Wow, this is amazing. Being a beginner in web developing, I would be really happy if you could help me out on how did you actually build this. Loved it!
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Zakuzaa 1350 days ago
Nothing fancy. You can get the frontend code by checking the view-source. It's just html css js. Backend is very simple php script. It's just a cron that fetches data from hacknews API, reddit API and other few APIs.
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artembugara 1350 days ago
Let me know if you need a news API.

https://newscatcherapi.com/

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mutant 1354 days ago
That's... Nice.

Any source code or blog post on how you did it?

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Zakuzaa 1350 days ago
Nothing fancy. You can get the frontend code by checking the view-source. It's just html css js. Backend is very simple php script. It's just a cron that fetches data from hacknews API, reddit API and other few APIs.
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