> how is this any different from healthchecks.io or openstatus.dev?
Those are the competition! There's never a good reason to not have alternatives available.
I'm not sure if this is intentional, but your comment comes across as a little disparaging, when individuals are sharing things they've built with passion, often in their spare time.
I'm building a RSS <> Discord syndication tool called [FeedSync](https://feedsync.net).
It's pretty simple to set up and is designed to "just work", set and forget.
Recently, I've been experimenting with an Elixir Lua runtime (https://deflua.com/) to build custom feeds by parsing HTML, which has worked exceedingly well, so hoping to release that soon.
It's an extremely niche product, but has been growing well organically, which is nice for a side project!
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 ;)
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.
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!
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.
Those are the competition! There's never a good reason to not have alternatives available.
I'm not sure if this is intentional, but your comment comes across as a little disparaging, when individuals are sharing things they've built with passion, often in their spare time.
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