FeedLounge Public Release
Scott and I are very proud to announce the FeedLounge Public Release!
Can’t wait any longer? You can sign up right now and read the rest of this later, we understand - it’s been a long wait. 
As promised, we are offering a free demo of FeedLounge with our “3 Hour Tour”. Each tour is limited to 50 people - this ensures that everyone will get a chance to try it out without completely overloading the demo box in the process (many simultaneous OPML imports are resource intensive). Unfortunately, our tour director got lost this morning so we’ve had to delay the first 3 Hour Tour for just a bit. He called us a little while ago and assured us he was on his way and would be here shortly.
To support the public release, we have overhauled the web site (you are looking at the new one - the old one looked like this) and added more resources to the support section. The Getting Started tutorial has been updated to match the current functionality in FeedLounge - it’s only a few pages and it’s worth checking out.
We’ve also got a buttons page to make it easy for you to add the little “Subscribe in FeedLounge” buttons to your web site. The buttons we have available right now are pretty basic. If you’re the artistic type, please make us some better buttons and/or banners. If we decide to use the buttons/banners you submit, we’ll give you a free month in FeedLounge as a thank you.
The forums and comments are open, we look forward to your feedback.
UPDATE (Jan 17, 11:25 PST): The 3 Hour Tour launch will be delayed a bit longer due to some unfortunate circumstances.
Great stuff, consider me signed up!
Looks like this is going to prove to be one really useful site.
Awesome - congratulations!
Best Regards,
-Joerg
feedlounge.com final is live
yay! the guys over at feedlounge(.com) made it - they’ve released the first public version of their web-based feeds-reader. Congratulations and all the best! Scott and I are very proud to announce the FeedLounge Public Release! Can’t wait any longer?…
Congrats, service is looking great.
Damn, so there’s no way for me to try it out before considering paying for it.
And even when the 3 hour tour is back, i only have 3 hours to demo it and then make my choice of paying for it?!
Keep up the great work, boys.
FeedLounge Beta is Live!
Scott and Alex have released the FeedLounge public beta!
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Josue, why would 3 hours not be enough time to see if you’re willing to use the application?
Great guys!
Looks really cool. But I think the prices are a bit high for just a better online feed-reader. What’s about a “lite” version? Or just better prices like 3$/month?
A 14 days free test would also be great. Three hours are just not enough for me to switch over to another tool.
Congratulations on signing me up.
Though I’m not 100% sure about how well I’ll cope with my RSS feeds not being available offline (or are they somehow?), I’m willing to give it a go. Heck, at $5/month it’s not going to kill anybody to pay that to try it out.
FeedLounge apre ufficialmente
Apre ufficialmente FeedLounge, un nuovo ed interessante web-based feed reader realizzato da Alex King e Scott Sanders. Purtroppo il suo utilizzo non è gratuito ma si può provare una versione demo attraverso il 3 Hour Tour, una demo gratuita limitata …
User of Bloglines, I always thought FeedLounge would be free, too bad, I really don’t think it’s worth the added $5 you have to pay over Bloglines.
Well, seeing as the demo isn’t up yet I thought $5 isn’t too much to spend on testing this out. And I have to say it works very well indeed, better than I expected, and it works much better then Google Reader, which is what I’m currently using.
Now I’ve got to decide if it’s worth $50 a year…
Feedlounge!
You can bet I’ll be on a 3 hour tour this evening… I think I can almost justify the $5/month… couldn’t they have a neutered version that would be free? Or maybe hook up some ads on those pages? This is the age (at least for a …
I really doubt in 3 hours i’ll be able to fully explore every aspect of it.
A 3 day trial would be better IMO.
I’d love to see how it handles new feeds, refresh rates, stability, etc etc. Which i don’t think i’d be able to test in 3 hours.
Still, probably i’ll be impressed in the 3 hour trial, but just not enough to consider spending $5/month on it. If only i had more time to test the service.
$5 / month? That’s just not going to fly. How about $20 / year, plus a free service with a limited (but generous) number of feeds? The only question is, will you switch now and capitalise on the good buzz you’re getting, or will you switch in a few months time when nobody signs up? Look around guys. Every competing service is free.
Great!!! Didn’t get an invite for the beta, so I had to sign up to see how great it is! I don’t regret it!
I was planning on using the trial first, but as it was down… well, the three column layout and space bar navigation convinced me to sign up anyway.
I don’t regret it. Wonderful product! Completely worth it. I’ve been using NewsFire for a while, and this is the first web based RSS reader I’ve seen that really compares.
What a breath of fresh air. I’ve tried all the other online aggregators and they’ve driven me crazy with their clumsiness, over cuteness, or plain lack of ability to work properly.
$5 a month is a steal for something that works properly and does what it says. I’ve only been using it for the last day, but that’s longer than I’ve used any other online reader.
I love my offline reader (NewsFire) because it lets me rapidly read all the new stuff I need to read. I can read 100+ feeds with new content in just a couple of minutes. Well, I never thought I’d get that same experience from a clumsy, slow online reader.. but FeedLounge has done it.
It’s early days yet, but I’m feeling quite confident about this. There are a few tweaks I’d like to see, but I’m really impressed so far and it’s the best one I’ve found after all this time looking.
Unfortunately, I have to agree that $5 a month is a little too expensive for my blood. When you compare that price with something like Flickr (even before Yahoo! bought them) and their $20 a year “”Pro” account with extremely generous upload limits and unlimited storage, $5 a month for on online news reader seems kinda rediculous. Still, congratulations on releasing the first public beta, and best of luck to the team. Maybe I’ll check back in a few weeks to see if the price drops.
I’m pretty sure Flickr accounts were ~$50/year at one point, but they were definitely at least $41.77/year before Yahoo bought them.
FeedLounge s’ouvre enfin au public impatient et enterre directement ses concurrents
Si vous n’en avez pas encore entendu parler, FeedLounge est un aggrégateur de flux de syndication en ligne, à la manière de Bloglines, Google Reader et autres. La différence, c’est qu’il est beau et facile à utiliser !
I joined Flickr at $41.77/year because they offered me something good for it. Same here at FeedLounge.
I saw that it kind of works without an internet connection (you can go through the items in the middle pane fine, it’s when you try to go to another tag/blog on the left-most pane that it dies). If you could do more for an offline mode that would be great.
I’m classically tight. I don’t pay for anything I can get away with. But stop looking at the annual cost and look at the monthly cost. $5! That’s less than a couple of coffees, and for that I get to read all my news *anywhere* and in almost any browser. Not only that, but the interface is so slick that I can probably save myself a lot more than $5 of my time just by using it.
My tip is to subscribe monthly, and if after a month you think it’s not worth it, just cancel the subscription. I’d be willing to bet, however, you’d be won over.