Follow

Follow your favorites in one inbox.

4.7•20 reviews•

1K followers

Follow your favorites in one inbox.

4.7•20 reviews•

1K followers

Visit website

News

Follow is a platform that aggregates content from multiple platforms into a single, organized timeline, keeping you updated on topics of interest without distractions. With the ability to share created lists and discover others’ collections, it brings a light social and sharing experience, allowing you to focus on what matters while connecting for efficient, distraction-free information browsing.

Free

Launch tags:News•Open Source•Social Media

Launch Team

Framer AI AgentsDesign and publish professional sites with AI

Promoted

Maker

📌

👋 Hi Product Hunt! I'm DIYgod, the creator of Follow and an open-source developer based in Singapore. Over the past decade, I've created and maintained more than 100 open-source projects on GitHub, amassing 67K stars ✨. Yet, none have meant as much to me as Follow 🧡. Six years ago, I launched an open-source project called RSSHub, designed to generate RSS feeds for any website or content. Thanks to continuous maintenance and contributions from over 1,100 community developers 👥, it has evolved into the world's largest RSS network—supporting over 1,200 websites and running on more than 5,000 nodes. While this is a remarkable achievement, I feel there's still more to accomplish. RSSHub caters primarily to geeks 😎, but I envision an information platform accessible to everyone—one that empowers more people to stay informed with ease. That's where Follow comes in. It's not just an RSS reader; it's a customizable information center where anyone can follow their favorite creators and feeds from any platform 🌎. No more jumping between apps or dealing with unwanted noise—just a consistent, streamlined experience. With AI-driven features like translation, summaries, and recent headlines, Follow offers intelligent and efficient browsing. If you're intrigued, please check out our promotional materials, official website, or GitHub repository to learn more 🔗. Follow has gained significant traction on GitHub, boasting over 16K stars and ranking first on GitHub's daily, weekly, and monthly trending repositories 📈. But I don't want it to resonate only with developers. That's why I've brought it to Product Hunt, a community of brilliant product enthusiasts and makers, in hopes of receiving your suggestions and feedback to further refine our product. Currently in its public testing phase 🧪, Follow still has some advanced features—like certain AI functions and the ability to create and share lists—that require an invitation code. If you're interested in diving deeper into Follow or have insights to share, please let me know in the comments 💬. I'll be happy to send you an invitation code. Looking forward to your thoughts and suggestions!

Report

2yr ago

Maker

@victoria_wu Thank you so much, it uses OpenAI's model GPT-4o mini, and we are also considering allowing users to customize prompts.

Report

2yr ago

@diygod Congrats! Been a Follow user for a couple of months, just ❤️ Follow so much! Thank you for your amazing work!

Report

2yr ago

@diygod wow , thanks for creating this! Can you send me an invitation code? I’d love to participate in your beta with full features!

Report

2yr ago

HeyNews

@diygod signed up and loved the experience! May I have an invitation code to fully experience it?

Report

2yr ago

@diygod Can I get an invite code?

Report

2yr ago

Clera

@diygod & team congrats on your launch! It seems like you have great ambitions to build one software that combines all sources where you can follow - just curious, are you also planning to include many other sources next to RSS?

Report

2yr ago

Maker

@alexanderfarr Thank you for your appreciation. We support various sources, even including email. That's right, you can create an email address in Follow, and any email sent to that address will be added to your timeline. Additionally, we support list features. You can subscribe to lists curated by others or share your own lists with them, as well as new protocols like JSON feed, fediverse, and more.

Report

2yr ago

Great idea. Do you plan to work with newsletters as well? I've been drowning in newsletters that I want to read but can't find the time to get to all of them. Congrats @DIYgod and the whole team on the launch!!

Report

2yr ago

Maker

@diygod @jesna_james Hi Jesna, what newsletters you mean? could you give us the example?

Report

2yr ago

@diygod @anneincoding I mean email newsletters. Similar to social media feeds, email newsletters also clutter up our inboxes. It would be nice to have a way to organize and read them in one place.

Report

2yr ago

As I have told with @diygod, that Follow is the next generation of monsters. // I'm a bit confused about the moderation of PH....😢 // I've been with PH since the launch, and recently I've been asking myself, “What's wrong?”

Report

2yr ago

Exactly what I have been looking for, well done. Couple things - I've maxed out my trial feeds and would love to keep going! May I request an invite code? Second, running an Intel, 2018 Macbook Pro and am being told the app is not compatible - is there another desktop app I can try? Android?

Report

2yr ago

I found the right dmg file, this is excellent. thank you. (would still love a invite code! thanks.)

Report

2yr ago

Maker

@john_galbraith pLQTHN0Ns2, Happy you enjoy, Thanks for your feedbacks, as the downloads you can try to check all our downloads here 👉 https://github.com/RSSNext/Follo...

Report

2yr ago

@diygod @anneincoding - congrats on the launch yesterday, I really love the application and am looking forward to updates to access full features. Thanks!

Report

2yr ago

I used it for a few days now. My main use case is for following new articles from friends using RSS. I imported my OPML file. It took a while for articles to show up, but once it does it works really well. I love that the UI is very polished, IMO it's one of the most polished interface for reading feeds I've ever used. I also love that it supports many keyboard shortcuts and buttons have keyboard shortcuts intuitively shown in the tooltip. Do you have any plan for it to have a public API? I really would love to have the ability to subscribe to an OPML URL, because I manage my feed subscriptions in another system that provides a URL to an OPML file. This would let me update my feed subscriptions in Follow without needing to re-import my OPML file. I know this use case is very niche, but if I can manage the feeds via an API, I can write a quick script to synchronize my feed subscriptions and lists between the OPML and Follow. Looking forward to seeing how this project goes. Cheers!

Report

2yr ago

It works great, I'veIt is very useful and I can't put it down. It is my daily channel for extracting information. But it's a pity that the Android version is still under development and it is very inconvenient to use on Android phones. I wonder what the development progress is now?

Report

1yr ago

1 2 3

•••

4.7

Based on 20 reviews

Review Follow?

Reviewers mostly see Follow as a strong RSS reader with a clean, polished interface, broad feed coverage through RSSHub, and a focused reading experience that helps them escape noisy algorithmic feeds. Several praise fast setup, smooth reading, AI summaries, and support for different content types. But the praise is not unanimous: a few users report bugs, unclear errors, delayed responses, broken buttons, and even repeated service outages or login failures. Overall, sentiment is very positive, though reliability and accessibility for some users remain concerns.

+17

Summarized with AI

Pros

Cons

Reviews

Most Informative

So I've incorporated RSS feeds of various types into multiple aspects of my life over the past 15 years, from keeping track of news, companies I've invested in, friends/social activity and more but this is by far the BEST RSS app I've come across and it's completely free. From creating custom feeds back in the early days of Feedburner for my own info-collection as well as to help propagate the marketing message of my clients then to hosting my own feed aggregators on my homelab to trying just about every type of RSS application in between including ones I've had to pay for, this one wins. It even made swapping over my well-curated and categorized feeds from my self-hosted freshrss install a literal 15 second process. But it's not just an RSS aggregator. It is literally an application that let's you control, manipulate, save, ingest and SHARE any type of online content. From email newsletters to social media feeds (tweets? toots? yeah) to Github issue trackers, RSS feed creation for sites that don't even want you to have an RSS feed for their content, etc.. The list keeps going. Built in media player, multiple 3rd party app integration (like Obsidian), readability plugin, translation, AI integration to summarize not just a feed but whole categories of feeds if desired and even the ability to setup custom actions that can take any of the data, change it into whatever you want it to be and then push it back out to where you want it to go. Setup an action to monitor and notify you when someone mentions your product online. You know what, let's take that another step, take that notification, grab the username of who mentioned it and send off a personalized thank you. Let the AI go through and tell you what the stand-out or important pieces of news were today, yesterday, last week and have it be pulled from something you follow, or better yet, an entire category of content you follow so you can sift through all that noise and pick up on the data you need to know. I've just spent 5 minutes writing up a bunch of cool stuff you can do with Follow.is but the beauty is that there still is a whole lot more. RSS use to be popular, every blog had a feed, every company wanted you to subscribe....then Google killed the reader and feedburner.. People stopped reading blogs and started listening to podcasts instead. People forgot what you can do with it. Follow literally is a case-study on what it can do for you. Use it to help with your marketing, use it to stay up on your news or sports, heck use it to know every time your ex-girlfriend changes her relationship status back to "single" and have it give a thumbs-up emoji on the post. You can do all of that, AND track those podcasts, youtube subs, email subscriptions, etc.. all in one space. So there you go, I came back out of the ProductHunt dead to write about this, check my account history... yeah, i was there when it started and then promptly stopped using this site until now. This app has my endorsement because I want it to succeed. That way I can keep using it and not have to pay for 2-3 other apps to get the same type of work done.

Follow

Follow your favorites in one inbox.

Follow your favorites in one inbox.

What's great

What needs improvement

What's great

What's great

What's great

What needs improvement

What's great

What's great