No. But I’m pretty sure I can do something awesome in the world of feeds.

FeedSt, as an idea, has been in the back of my head, ever since I started using feed readers. (I actually need to sit down and piece together some history.) From the get go, I knew the dangers of creating a me-too company, a situation where the basic features of the original company are copied plus some additional feature set.

It’s been many months since I started thinking about FeedSt, but I still feel like there’s enough people out there demanding there is a better experience dealing with feeds. I hope to show these issues through blog posts and code.

The Playing Field

Them: A seven person engineering team from Google, with stacks of cash and years of dev time. (I’m assuming that the number of contributors on the Google Reader Blog maps directly to the people who are working on it.) The majority of this team is probably incredibly smart and experienced.

Me: A single dev, with very little runway left and a couple months of time left. Not so experienced, and actually is lacking in a huge chunk of the skillset needed to pull this off.

And it’s not just Google Reader. With the sale of FriendFeed to Facebook, Streamy.com is probably going to become the darling “social feed reader”. And I’m sure those people are extremely smart.

Regardless, yes, the odds are tremendously against me. But it’s never been this clear to me that I should be doing this. Foolish? Probably. But I only live once. I definitely want to make what seems to be my last chance count.

So with this post, I hope to kick off a series of posts pertaining to this project. Hope to keep you updated as stuff gets done.

09.09.09

Four weeks. I can have something awesome in four weeks, right? Most definitely.