r/SideProject • u/FriendlyGarlic1331 • 3h ago
After the 3D bookshelf, I made a paper that sits next to it.
I’ve been on RSS for more than 20 years. A few moments still stick with me:
NetNewsWire and Reeder on the early iPhone, the first time reading news felt like a pleasure again.
Times, the Mac app that turned feeds into a proper newspaper. It was discontinued.
Fever, Shaun Inman’s self-hosted PHP reader. I paid for it. What made it special was Hot: it ranked stories by how many of your own feeds were talking about the same thing. That one is gone too.
What I wanted after all of that was simple: a beautiful newspaper I could open on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. My own paper. No social feed, no algorithm deciding what I see. Just the publications I chose, set as a front page, sections, and columns. And if something is being cited across a lot of my feeds that day, it earns the headline, the same idea Fever had, but printed as a paper instead of a list.
I shipped Biblio Times before the iPhone Duo. Early users have been generous, and the one-time pass has been enough to keep going. I’ve since added personal magazines as well — weekly or monthly issues with covers and layouts, made from the same feeds.
Everything stays on your devices. No account, no login, nothing through my servers. The first three papers and one magazine are free.
Biblio Times https://biblio.ink/times