Welcome to RetroFeed

For a long time I thought about what to do with all the open tabs in my browser. Most of them are websites I want to explore and read more carefully, just not right now. So I keep stacking them into a growing pile of tabs that eats up my RAM, and that I almost never return to. Eventually, they get lost.

I’ve tried some read-it-later tools and stuck with Instapaper. It does its job and I like it. But when I come across an entire blog with dozens of articles, what do I do? Add them all to Instapaper one by one? Then categorise them with tags, or put them all in a folder? How many folders can a library reasonably have? Too much work, with the risk of creating more clutter.

I also tried using a RSS reader and collecting feeds from blogs I find around the web, but that’s not really a solution either. Blogs all implement feeds differently, and they usually show only the latest content. Many feeds don’t even include full posts, and the archive is often inaccessible. Feeds are something we got used to because of social media platforms: a constant stream of new content designed to keep us checking, and then checking again. They call it FOMO.

Blogs are not like that. They are curated bodies of work that often span years, and in many cases the old content is just as valuable as the new. After all, old books often outlast fresh bestsellers.

That’s why I created Retrofeed: to read the web like a library.

With RetroFeed you can add your favourite blogs and pull in the entire archive. You will find all the articles of a website inside their own dedicated space, so you don’t have to worry about the mess anymore. You can build Reading Lists that group posts across different blogs, search the full text of everything you’ve saved, and read in a clean interface that stays out of the way.

It’s fast, it’s calm, and it treats writing as something worth keeping, not just consuming.

RetroFeed is free to use. I’m building this for myself and for anyone else who still believes blogs are worth reading entirely.

Let’s grow this platform together. Come on in!