I'm working on FeedSync, which polls RSS feeds and pushes new entries to Discord.

It's built on Phoenix/Elixir and has been pretty rock solid.

Sign up currently requires a card number, but that's something I'm hoping to fix in the next week or so. If you do happen to sign up, I'll set your account to an unlimited free trial ;)

https://feedsync.net/

Wow! Surprised to see this on the front page.

I built this about 8 years ago on a whim, and it blew up. Only recently did I learn there was a memory leak, after getting a big traffic spike that caused an OOM.

Over the years it’s burned through several TB of bandwidth per month.

I built ascii.live to support different animations for fun, although I don’t have as much time to review PRs as I’d like.

> Over the years it’s burned through several TB of bandwidth per month.

I hope you're hosting it on Hetzner (or somewhere else with a generous traffic plan). They give you 20TB traffic per month.

Or if you're running a bunch of smaller projects, get a dedicated server with Hetzner and enjoy unmetered connection.

Ooh, I had a coworker who had one with zoidberg dancing once, though it seems to be dead now so maybe he didn't renew the domain. He probably used ascii.live!

There's an actual parrot emoji now for your GitHub description

I’ve been building an Elixir app to poll RSS feeds and pipe new entries to Discord.

Performance is rock solid, and it’s almost ready to release, I just need to tweak a few things (like free trial with no CC).

I have a very long to do list, and ultimately want to extend it with “change detection”, e.g. notify when an HTML element on a website changes.

All feedback is welcome

https://feedsync.net

I've been using elixir to build an app that lets an administrator add new rss feeds, render the article titles and summaries to a single page, scroll through them and push the ones they like to a landing page as a collection to read later. Many of the sites I like don't have the conventional RSS "structure" so I have to modify my main parser and adapt it to the outliers. I'm curious, how do you adapt to feeds that don't fit the conventional RSS structure? I was thinking of just using an LLM to automate it as I keep using Claude AI to expedite the process.

Do you mean they technically have RSS, but they’re using slightly different fields? E.g. summary instead of description?

I’m using FastRSS[^0] with some lightweight pattern matching to convert them to an internal model. I get error notifications for mismatches, and just push a new pattern match to handle the outlier.

Longer term it could be interesting to get an LLM to write some Lua to parse JIT.

[^0]: https://github.com/avencera/fast_rss

Cool, could also check out a unified App platform framework:

https://quasar.dev/

Cheers =3

This looks great, it's a shame that you have to go all the way through the payment process to see "Not available in your country (Australia)" though..

You’ll be pleased to find out that PeerTube already has a Docker deployment then!

I’ve been running it in Kubernetes with very few issues.

The documentation is available here: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/install-docker

>I do not think something proprietary like an s3 bucket would be compatible with Peertube, but I have not maintained an instance.

Peertube supports storing videos in S3 compatible object storage: https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin-remote-storage

Yes I built this feature last year!

It seems odd to me that navigating to the link you submitted redirects me to login with Twitter, giving no compelling reasons to do so?

I suggest having a descriptive homepage and allowing the user to login themselves, rather than forcing them via redirect.

You're right! I'll work on an homepage!

Are they actively sending out invites to people on the waitlist?

I just signed up with my work email address and automatically received an invite via email.

I don't. I use Ctrl-C instead.

The US does the same thing, as do many other countries I’m sure.