I’m building Kite Reader because RSS is still the best way to follow the web.
But the tools got weird:
Hosted readers became expensive.
Self-hosting became maintenance.
Social feeds became noise.
Local readers don’t always sync well.
Kite Reader sits in the middle:
- always-on RSS sync
- clean web reader
- OPML import/export
- third-party reader support
- no server to maintain
- built for people who still want control
The goal is simple:
Follow real sources.
Read without algorithms.
Keep your feeds portable.
First release is in progress.
Join the waitlist:
https://t.co/5hu1fh3yvP
something nobody tells you about leaving the 9-5 structure behind
your days become dangerously self-directed
no one setting the tone
no forced schedule
barely any meetings
just you deciding what matters every morning
curious how other founders structure around that mentally
@elgermerlo building https://t.co/ihHzYug8A7 - A managed RSS sync engine with a clean web reader, OPML import/export, and support for third-party readers.
seriously, codex usage limits are so much better than others.
for 1999 INR per month, I now have gpt 5.5 with great coding skills.
seems like i will stick with 5.5 for sometime.
@MicroLaunchHQ building https://t.co/ihHzYug8A7 - A managed RSS sync engine with a clean web reader, OPML import/export, and support for third-party readers.
@elgermerlo building https://t.co/ihHzYug8A7 - A managed RSS sync engine with a clean web reader, OPML import/export, and support for third-party readers.
@ClimStefan I am building my first SaaS - Kite Reader
a managed RSS sync engine with a clean web reader, OPML import/export, and support for third-party readers.
Feel free to checkout the details and join the waitlist
@TarzenCoder@Felix_Josemon This is an interesting idea and definitely needs more attention. Why dont you get a nice domain and less effort to marketing should give this a nice traffic.
Almost 1M people have visited his website
$13,000 MRR SaaS
$0 marketing spend
50,000 clicks per month from Google
This seemed too good to be true
So I called up the founder we chatted
And he told me exactly how he did it (suggest you save this)
1/ Build a real product first
SiteGPT is a website chatbot that answers questions using your site content. He charges monthly based on the bot's content and messages
2/ Know your numbers
- 200 leads
- 60 trials
- 50,000 visitors per month
- 25% - 40% become customers
- About $100 average revenue per customer
- About 130 businesses are paying
- LTV around $1,700 to $1,800
3/ Pick one channel and commit
60% - 70% of his traffic is organic from Google
4/ Use engineering as marketing
He built almost 50 free tools. Each tool targets a keyword that his buyers already search for
5/ Make every free tool lead to the main product
Use the free tool, then CTA upgrade them into the full chatbot for all their content
6/ Find low difficulty, high volume keywords
He uses a simple filter stack:
- Low keyword difficulty
- At least 1,000 monthly search volume
- High relevance to the main product
7/ Ship fast and stack the compounding effect
New free tools can take under 5 minutes once the system exists. More tools equal more rankings. More rankings equal more clicks. More clicks equals more customers
And there is so much more I could get into
This strategy is a cheat code for builders who hate marketing