Introducing Pond
A self–hosted RSS+Atom feed synchronization solution with emphasis on simplicity, elegance, and ease of use for developers and users alike.
Simple & Minimal
No complicated sorting algorithms. No useless social bells and whistles.
Pond focuses on doing one thing well: synchronizing your feeds across devices and apps.
Extra care is taken to give it a very small footprint.
Elegant
Code, that is.
Kidding. Actually, the API is RESTful, and was specifically designed for ease of integration.
No nonsense.
Self–hosted
Never rely on giant corporations to give you a continous service again.
Never trust them with your data.
And it's all open source.
Q&A
What?
Pond is a simple, elegant, self–hosted RSS+Atom feed sync solution.
Why?
With the recent announcement of the death of Google Reader, many alternatives have been popping up, but—to the extent of my knowledge—none of them is self–hosted and open source.
How?
Pond is written in Go and uses SQLite for storage.
Can I install Pond on my commodity server?
No. Currently, because of the technology stack, it can only be deployed to VPSes, but if enough people request it, and the project gets enough collaborators, a PHP port might get written.
I installed Pond—now how do I read my feeds?
Pond, on its own, is pretty much useless for that purpose. It is intended to provide the necessary infrastructure to sync your feeds across readers and devices.
To read your feeds, you'll need a reader that supports Pond. If you are a developer, I encourage you to read the API documentation, and consider integrating Pond into your reader.
In the future, a front–end app to read your feeds might get built. No promises, though.