Scour noisy feeds for content related to your interests

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Features

  • •Get a personalized feed of content related to your interests.
  • •Subscribe to specific feeds or scour all of them (4288 and counting).
  • •Works with RSS, Atom, Hacker News, Reddit, Bluesky, Substack, Medium, and more — including blogs that don't have RSS feeds.
  • •Identify hidden gems from noisy sources like Hacker News Newest.
  • •Get feed recommendations based on how well their content matches your interests.
  • •Import and export feeds from and for other readers via OPML.
  • •Extremely fast. Your personalized feed should load in under 100 milliseconds.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I use Scour with another feed reader?

Yes! Every user's personalized feed can be consumed as an RSS/Atom/JSON feed. And, you can get feeds for each of your interests to import those into another feed reader.

Is Scour free?

Yes! I'm also planning to add additional paid features.

Who are you?

I'm Evan Schwartz, a software engineer who likes inventing things. You can find my writing and other projects on my website.

Why are you building this?

I like keeping up with tech and global news. However, there are many great content feeds that are too noisy to keep up with. Aggregators like Hacker News, Lobsters, and Reddit can be nice but they often have plenty of posts that I'm not interested in. Social aggreggators in particular can also miss great content that doesn't happen to go viral (ever tried submitting something to Hacker News, only for it to get buried before it escapes the Newest page?). Scour watches all of these feeds and surfaces only the content that matches your interests.

What tech stack are you using?

Scour is written in Rust using the "MASH" stack. For semantic search, it uses binary vector embeddings generated by the mxbai-embed-large model via Mixedbread's API.

Can you add feature X?

I'm always open to feature requests! Please add your suggestions to the feedback board.

Bookmarklet

You can use the Scour Feed bookmarklet to quickly scour new feeds. Drag the link to your Bookmarks Toolbar or right-click on the link and select "Bookmark Link" to save it.

Sponsors

Scour's embeddings are generously provided for free by Mixedbread. I evaluated and chose the embedding model independently and have been a happy user of their API. They thought Scour seemed like a cool project and offered to sponsor it. I genuinely think they're doing interesting work on embeddings and semantic search, so I was happy to accept their offer.