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Devurls: A dev news aggregator that automatically pulls from multiple sources

113 points| IA21 | 6 years ago |devurls.com | reply

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[+] deepakkarki|6 years ago|reply
I run something similar - https://www.discoverdev.io/

Except this feed comes to me and I personally filter and select 8-10 links for the day. Helps to filter out the BS. I also tag the articles. Been doing this for over two years now, have curated over 3200+ links. Check it out, I try to select interesting and more engineering oriented articles and leave out the "Hello world" types.

List of interesting articles across -

1. Data Engineering : https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/data-engineering 2. Systems : https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/systems 3. Software Architecture : https://www.discoverdev.io/tags/software-architecture

[+] amrrs|6 years ago|reply
Looks really nice. Especially the hand-picking part of human curation part. Based on the other reply of yours about monetization, wondering why aren't you actively monetizing it. The software engineering daily podcast makes about $60K+ a montb[1]. You can become like that interms of newsletter and aggregation. No?

[1] - https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/114-jeff-meyerson-of-so...

[+] tmd83|6 years ago|reply
This looks nice at a first glance. I have been looking for more dev oriented article lately and this seem like a good start.

On a side note just read about sqreen. Anyone with a clue to how useful such a product is in reality. I find application security related products very hard to evaluate from the docs without heavy usage and trial.

[+] pythonbase|6 years ago|reply
Nice collection. May subscribe to the list.

By the way, I am planning to do something similar. What's your tech stack for scraping and rendering the feeds?

[+] desireco42|6 years ago|reply
Looks really cool and clean. Are you hoping to monetize by advertising?
[+] SimeVidas|6 years ago|reply
This looks good, but just plain RSS is still the best way, by far, to follow dev blogs.
[+] yodon|6 years ago|reply
You have a great list of sites but if you want repeat visits you shouldn't make your visitors scroll past 1000 old posts from sites in the first half of the list to get to the new posts from sites farther down the list. Charlie Egan's Serializer [0] handles this perfectly, including letting me indicate when I've cleared the new posts list. If you're not familiar with his site I recommend spending some time with it.

[Edit added]

Also:

The widget for selecting which sites you want to see doesn't actually change the list of sites you see.

If you accidentally open the menu there isn't any way to close it (eg click outside the menu) on my iPhone without going into a submenu item and closing that popup.

There doesn't seem to be any way to reorder sites in the list.

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[0]http://serializer.io

[+] broth|6 years ago|reply
Very nice!

It would be nice if on the rearrange page if the icons had alt text to display what site the icon corresponds to.

[+] jhare|6 years ago|reply
A couple of these are new to me, appreciate you sharing.
[+] kilroy123|6 years ago|reply
This is actually pretty nice! It would be great if you could re-order everything yourself and save that order.
[+] agumonkey|6 years ago|reply
I remember spending days chasing rss to aggregate on my netvibes portal. Very nice