Newshutch, the Bloglines Killer

Newshutch I’ve been using bloglines since it’s infancy. It was a great app, one of the first of it’s kind, and definitely the best. Well, like the dinosaur, it’s time is over.

Welcome Newshutch, the new best-in-class Web RSS feed reader. I started using it and it was a tad slow, but they have just upgraded their servers, etc, and are now rolling along nicely.

It has that wonderful “37signals” look and feel to it. Built in Rails, heavy on AJAX. It’s a pleasure to use. Everything I’ve been wanting in a feed reader. Thanks, guys!

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5 Responses to “Newshutch, the Bloglines Killer”

Steve said on: July 20th, 2006 at 7:08 am
I tried Newshutch and really wanted to like it, but saying it’s a tad slow is an understatement. Plus I found that when adding and managing feeds you have to hit refresh a lot. You shouldn’t have to do that with an Ajax app. Also, some features like mark all read don’t seem to work for me. Finally, I do like 37signals but I’m getting a bit tired of all the copycat sites that are popping up.
Matt said on: July 20th, 2006 at 7:20 am
Steve - when was the last time you used it? I had a similar experience as you when I first started to use it, but I think issues are resolved now.

I don’t mind “copycat” sites as long as they are good. Newshutch is becoming good. :)
Mithrill said on: July 22nd, 2006 at 5:17 am
Nice find. I just signed up for it. I wasn’t really happy with my free online News Gator account so I’m can’t wait to see how I like this one. Once I briefly used Bloglines, but I preferred News Gator to it.
hash said on: August 2nd, 2006 at 12:33 pm
Great find Matt. I’ve been a longtime user of the client-based Firefox plugin by Sage. I’ve used Bloglines as well, and it worked well, but this is definitely a step up. Something that will move me from Sage for sure.
Daniel Aleksandersen said on: July 7th, 2007 at 5:24 pm
Newshutch is great. But it was better before. As they have been adding new features the interface has become more and more cluttered. I miss the old Newshutch!