Bringing Your Own Feeds

You don’t have to use whatever is popular right now. You can simply paste in a blog, newsletter or site you like, and Postreads.co will do its best to follow new posts for you. Once you are signed in, you can discover and add new sources from the Browse Feeds page or directly from the reader.

If you’ve used other readers before, you can also bring over your existing subscriptions in one go instead of rebuilding everything by hand. You can do this from your account settings after logging in. From there you can tidy things up, group feeds and slowly shape a reading space that reflects your own taste rather than someone else’s algorithm.

Why Bother With Another Reader?

If you are very happy with Feedly, Inoreader or your current setup, that's genuinely fine – Postreads.co does not try to win a feature checklist war with them.

It might still be useful if you want to bring your own corner of the web with you, instead of relying on whatever happens to be popular that week:

• want a calmer interface with a clear focus on reading, not dashboards;
• like curated starting points instead of staring at an empty reader and an empty file asking you to somehow “import everything”;
• want highlights, notes and search tied to what you actually read, not just what arrived;
• prefer small tools that you can understand and walk away from without feeling locked in.

You can treat Postreads.co as your main reader, or just as a separate place for discovery and "high-signal" feeds while keeping your existing setup for everything else.

Where It Comes From

Postreads.co is a spiritual continuation of 10przykazan.com, a feed aggregator I co-built that was popular in the Polish blogosphere around 2007-2009.

Back then, projects like 9rules.com, Technorati and the old Digg made it easier to find good writing without everything being filtered through a handful of giant platforms.

Postreads.co does not pretend to recreate that era, but it borrows a simple idea from it: RSS is still a good way to follow people, and a reader should help you keep up with them without turning reading into yet another noisy feed.

A Quick Note on Philosophy

This project is built by someone who still likes the old, link-driven web and wants tools that respect readers and writers. I can't promise to perfectly live up to every ideal, but the baseline is simple: no tracking tricks, no selling your reading habits, and no intentional dark patterns that try to keep you here longer than you want to be.