I read tech news every day. Not because I have to — I genuinely enjoy it. But every site I visited was fighting for my attention with ads, popups, recommended content, and paywalls. I just wanted a clean list of headlines from sources I trust.
A ready-made RSS reader would have solved the problem. But I wanted something I could run anywhere, on any device, without an account or a subscription. So I built my own.
News is an open source Progressive Web App that pulls together multiple RSS feeds and presents them as a clean, card-based board. It's live at news.b65.ch and installable on your home screen like any native app.
What it looks like
On mobile, each article gets its own card — cover image, source tag, title, a short excerpt, and a relative timestamp. Cards stack in a single column. On a tablet or wider screen, they reflow into a proper grid. The layout adapts automatically without any manual breakpoint juggling.
Pull down to refresh on mobile, or let the app do it on a timer — every minute, every two minutes, or on demand. Everything is cached locally in the browser, so the last loaded articles are always there when you open it again.
Adding sources
Hit the gear icon to open settings. You give each feed a name, a URL, and a color. That color shows up as a pill badge on every card from that source, so you can tell at a glance where an article comes from without reading the fine print. Toggle individual feeds on and off without removing them. There's also a full export and import, so your config travels with you to another device without retyping anything.
The stack
Vue 3, Pinia, Vue Router, Tailwind CSS. RSS parsing happens entirely in the browser using native XML — no server-side processing, no heavy framework. The only backend piece is a small CORS proxy running on b65.ch that forwards feed requests. Everything else runs client-side.
Installable as a PWA, works offline (cached articles), no tracking, no account.
Try it or run it yourself
Open news.b65.ch and add your first feed. That's all it takes.
The source is on GitHub: simonjenny/News. Clone it, run npm install and npm run dev, and you have a local instance in under a minute.