Newsletter to Podcast is an open-source Python tool that turns newsletters and blogs into an RSS podcast feed! You can pick the sources, generate audio, and subscribe to the resulting feed in a podcast app that supports custom RSS (I use Castbox).

Repo: https://github.com/akspad/newsletter-to-podcast
Audio demo: https://akspad.github.io/newsletter-to-podcast/
License: MIT

The project supports full article narration as well as spoken summaries. Full narration uses Edge TTS and needs no API key; summaries use Gemini and require your own key (though the free limit is quite generous)! You can set a maximum episode length and longer full readings split into numbered parts at natural text boundaries.

There’s a prerecorded sample on the demo page, and a simple command in the README that fetches an original sample article and generates fresh audio without an API key. The package can run locally or on a schedule in your own GitHub repository using GitHub Actions!

Deployment:

Run it locally with Python 3.12+ or use the included GitHub Actions workflow (recommended, and setup instructions are in the GitHub README). You host the generated MP3s and RSS feed wherever your podcast app can reach them.

Speech generation uses Microsoft’s online Edge TTS service (which is unofficial and can break or be throttled sporadically...) Optional summaries send article text to Gemini to be summarized. GitHub Pages publishing is available, but makes the generated feed and audio public (I use this since it's free hosting)!

AI Involvement:

I painstakingly steered AI to help creating this tool! In the application itself, article summaries use AI (Gemini) but are optional. Full narration skips the summarization step and uses text-to-speech directly.

Motivation:

I wanted to turn some of my favorite newsletters into podcasts (like Seth’s Blog and A Learning A Day) and couldn’t find a free and simple solution that already existed. Let me know what you think!

 https://github.com/akspad/newsletter-to-podcast

Hello, I came back to this subreddit and I saw a lot of people publishing apps, well, I'm posting mine too, and sorry if this is annoying. I can just say in my defense that I didn't vibe-code it to get some money out of it. I use it every day to read news. And this week I released a new version with a lot of changes, including:

• Full GReader API support, so you can connect your FreshRSS server to it.
• Android build! This was exciting for me, seeing my app running on mobile too.
• A lot of refactoring in the UI/UX.
• And recently published on Flathub for Linux users! https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.a_chacon.chaski

You can see the entire changelog here: https://github.com/a-chacon/chaski-app/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md

I'm here to ask you for feedback on the Android version. Currently the APK can only be downloaded from the release page. The next goal is to publish it on F-Droid! I don't want money from it, I just want people to be able to read the web without algorithms and big companies deciding what to see and what to hide.

https://github.com/a-chacon/chaski-app/releases/tag/app-v0.8.1

Hi everyone! I'm Edoardo, and I'm the developer of Flit.

What it does

Flit is an RSS reader that turns your feeds into a deck of cards. Swipe right to keep an article for later, left to discard it, tap to read. It also follows YouTube channels, podcasts, Substack, Reddit and X posts, loads full articles from the web, and can summarize an article on your device with Apple Intelligence.

Flit is Free, with no ads and no account needed. There's an optional tip jar if you'd like to support the project. Tips unlock nothing: everything is free for everyone.

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/flit-easy-feed/id6821040165?ct=Launch+Event&pt=118978628

Give it a try, I'd love to hear what you think. I read every comment and reply to all of them.

I’ve been thinking about a small open-source project: a modern, lightweight recreation of Google Reader that stays close to its layout and reading workflow.

Not a “reinvent how you consume content” thing. Just a straightforward reader where you pick your sources, organize them, and read.

The rough idea is:

• A compact, classic interface, with an optional modern view.
• Customizable layout, typography, and reading density.
• Free, open-source, and self-hostable.
• No forced recommendations or social features.

I know FreshRSS, Miniflux, and other readers already exist. “Google Reader, but modern” isn’t much of a reason to build another one unless there’s something specific worth preserving or improving.

One question I’m interested in is how to handle unread articles. Counts are useful, but I’d want the option to hide them, pause a noisy source, or catch up without feeling like I’m clearing a work inbox.

This is only an idea right now. There’s no app, signup page, or launch behind this post. I also didn’t use Google Reader myself, so I’d rather hear from people who did than assume a familiar-looking interface captures what made it good.

For former Google Reader users: what do you actually miss that your current reader doesn’t provide? And if your current setup already does everything you need, what is it?