[hellerbarde]

To have this said first: I really like your reader, it looks beautiful and so far it's the one that I'd most like to use.

In the wake of the Announcement of Google Reader shutting down, a lot of people are gonna be wary of jumping into another service that could go down any time.

What are your mid-/long-term plans for keeping this online? Will there be monetization through ads? Through a subscription? Or are you planning to open source it for self-hosting?

A last important question, can I export my data?

cheers hellerbarde

edit: updated question

[7hundredand77]

This is a great comment. It really chews into some of the things I have been thinking about for the future. Right now I have decided to keep it a free services with no ads. Though as most sites, of course I would like to make money from it, which goes hand in hand with improving it continually. I have never thought of the idea of exporting data, however with the OO way I have created the database, I can definitely add this in. GReader imports are something I have to work on next. My focus for this start has been to keep it clean, simple and fast. Because of that I worked on the optimising code for weeks. (the server is based in Australia, thus, better hosting online will definitely speed it up).

[7hundredand77]

To address your question better, the plan has now turned into creating a subscription services which will allow to setup better services whilst keeping traffic standardised to a medium that allows us to grow the server farm as more people join. Development is underway to turn it into a fully scalable system for future growth, whilst continually adding features etc.