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Follow - Follow your favorites in one inbox

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As they say, your thoughts are what you read—and we’ve been consuming noisy feeds for too long! Follow organizes content into one timeline, keeping you updated on what matters, noise-free. Share lists, explore collections, and enjoy distraction-free browsing.

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DIYgod
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👋 Hi Product Hunt! I'm DIYgod, the creator of Follow and an open-source developer based in Singapore. Over the past decade, I've created and maintained more than 100 open-source projects on GitHub, amassing 67K stars ✨. Yet, none have meant as much to me as Follow 🧡. Six years ago, I launched an open-source project called RSSHub, designed to generate RSS feeds for any website or content. Thanks to continuous maintenance and contributions from over 1,100 community developers 👥, it has evolved into the world's largest RSS network—supporting over 1,200 websites and running on more than 5,000 nodes. While this is a remarkable achievement, I feel there's still more to accomplish. RSSHub caters primarily to geeks 😎, but I envision an information platform accessible to everyone—one that empowers more people to stay informed with ease. That's where Follow comes in. It's not just an RSS reader; it's a customizable information center where anyone can follow their favorite creators and feeds from any platform 🌎. No more jumping between apps or dealing with unwanted noise—just a consistent, streamlined experience. With AI-driven features like translation, summaries, and recent headlines, Follow offers intelligent and efficient browsing. If you're intrigued, please check out our promotional materials, official website, or GitHub repository to learn more 🔗. Follow has gained significant traction on GitHub, boasting over 16K stars and ranking first on GitHub's daily, weekly, and monthly trending repositories 📈. But I don't want it to resonate only with developers. That's why I've brought it to Product Hunt, a community of brilliant product enthusiasts and makers, in hopes of receiving your suggestions and feedback to further refine our product. Currently in its public testing phase 🧪, Follow still has some advanced features—like certain AI functions and the ability to create and share lists—that require an invitation code. If you're interested in diving deeper into Follow or have insights to share, please let me know in the comments 💬. I'll be happy to send you an invitation code. Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!
@diygod Wow! Congrats! The community support behind RSSHub is inspiring. Can you elaborate on how the AI-generated summaries work? Are they customizable based on user preferences?
DIYgod
@victoria_wu Thank you so much, it uses OpenAI's model GPT-4o mini, and we are also considering allowing users to customize prompts.
reuixiy
@diygod Congrats! Been a Follow user for a couple of months, just ❤️ Follow so much! Thank you for your amazing work!
Zach Harris
@diygod wow , thanks for creating this! Can you send me an invitation code? I’d love to participate in your beta with full features!
Cagri Sarigoz
@diygod signed up and loved the experience! May I have an invitation code to fully experience it?
Alexander Farr
@diygod & team congrats on your launch! It seems like you have great ambitions to build one software that combines all sources where you can follow - just curious, are you also planning to include many other sources next to RSS?
DIYgod
@alexanderfarr Thank you for your appreciation. We support various sources, even including email. That's right, you can create an email address in Follow, and any email sent to that address will be added to your timeline. Additionally, we support list features. You can subscribe to lists curated by others or share your own lists with them, as well as new protocols like JSON feed, fediverse, and more.
Daniel Chen
@diygod congrats for the launch! I’ve been using follow for about a month, and it reminds me the good old days of using google reader, but more than google reader! It’s really impressive!
AnneInCoding
@diygod @chouti thank you so much Daniel, users support means a lot
Bai HuanCheng (Bestony)
My favorite RSS Reader in macOS than others!
AnneInCoding
@bestony Glad you enjoy ❤️
ZK ZHAO
hey ph community, what do yout think about follow and rss in general? love to know more 👀👀
Ruben Benarroch Esayag
wow this got super fast upvoted! what a loyal community you have!! kudos!
DIYgod
@rupgo Thank you so much, we have been quite popular in the GitHub developer community for some time now, with over 16K stars, and ranked first in GitHub's daily, weekly, and monthly trending repositories, having accumulated many developer users.
Ruben Benarroch Esayag
hey @diygod what happened with all your upvotes? i guess they removed newly created accounts...
timqian
Awesome tool! Thank you for bringing Follow and RSSHub to the world
AnneInCoding
@tim_qian Thanks your support !!!
Robert Shaw
Follow anything on the internet.
Kevin Wu
Awesome RSS tool! I use it to subscribe AI KOL users on Twitter, which is very convenient, congrats.
AnneInCoding
@0xinhua Thanks ❤️
zanwei.guo
As an alpha user, I was initially drawn to Follow’s clean and minimalist UI. However, after trying it out, I realized that the UI is just a small part of what makes it stand out. Its innovative product concept and more user-friendly interactions compared to other RSS tools are the main reasons I enjoy using it. I look forward to seeing it shape the future of this category of products
AnneInCoding
@zanweiguo thank you so much zanwei! ❤️
Zeiki Yu
I've been using 'Follow' for a few weeks now, and it's become my go-to for keeping up with my favorite blogs, social media, and even price alerts. The AI summaries are a time-saver, and I love how it consolidates all my feeds into one place. The interface is clean, and it's super easy to use. A bit more polish on the video player would be great, but overall, 'Follow' is a solid RSS reader that's made my daily catch-up much more efficient. Highly recommended for info junkies like me!
AnneInCoding
@zeiki_yu Thanks Zeiki, Happy Follow helps.
Brent Terrazas
So I lucked out on finding Follow a few months ago and the amount of work these guys have put in on a daily basis to improve the product has been incredible. I can stay updated with the latest news, what my friends are talking about on social media (which is now spread out amongst bluesky, mastodon and twitter) without having to log into those sites and so much more. Here's an example. I follow an extremely long list of security bloggers/researchers. Most post multiple times each day so it'd take me a couple of hours if I actually went through each and every post. Instead I can let Follow go through and point out what was important/widely talked about and then go from there to learn more. It gives me the chance to stay updated easily on what's currently a hot topic. Some of those blogs are in other languages too, which Follow auto-translates for me, just another nice feature. Go checkout my review for a few more examples, this is more than just an RSS reader, it's an entire content management system. A++
AnneInCoding
@brentter wow, thanks for sharing Brent, we appreciate and will always try our best to make the product better and better
Bon
I've used many RSS tools in the past, like Google RSS, Feedly, and Reader, but I haven't used theme for many years. Follow has made me want to try RSS again.
AnneInCoding
@bonvisions Thanks Bon, let me know if you have any feedback towards to Follow
Samar Ali
Launching soon!
I love the concept of organizing content into one timeline! Are there any plans for integration with other platforms?
AnneInCoding
@samalyx so far we support most platforms, let us know is there any you could not add on Follow.
JaredL
An excellent RSS reader! Thanks to DIYGod for his long-term contributions to the RSS community. Wishing you a successful launch! 🫡
AnneInCoding
@jaredl Thanks ❤️ Users are the world to us. Happy Follow helps.
Alison Eyo
Finally someone gets it! Been doom-scrolling through 5 different apps just to keep up with design trends and tech news. That 'one timeline' thing hits home - was literally switching between Twitter, DN, and PH this morning 😅 Quick q - can you mute specific keywords? Need to filter out all the AI hype while keeping the actual useful AI tools.
Vivian
My favourite RSS tool!
AnneInCoding
@vivian1994 what a coincidence, it is my favourite RSS tool as well
chen Arthur
I've been using it for a few days now, and it's been a long time since I've had a app like this that I've found new and interesting! Thanks to the developer team!
AnneInCoding
@chen_arthur Thank you for your support chen ❤️
Jesna James
Great idea. Do you plan to work with newsletters as well? I've been drowning in newsletters that I want to read but can't find the time to get to all of them. Congrats @DIYgod and the whole team on the launch!!
AnneInCoding
@diygod @jesna_james Hi Jesna, what newsletters you mean? could you give us the example?
Jesna James
@diygod @anneincoding I mean email newsletters. Similar to social media feeds, email newsletters also clutter up our inboxes. It would be nice to have a way to organize and read them in one place.
daisuke osada
As I have told with @diygod, that Follow is the next generation of monsters. // I'm a bit confused about the moderation of PH....😢 // I've been with PH since the launch, and recently I've been asking myself, “What's wrong?”