Hi :)
My name is Pran and I am a small indie-developer from 🍁.
I built Lime Reader for myself and then some friends suggested it might be useful to others too. So, here it is.
I often browse forums like Hacker News, Tildes, Lobsters, Slashdot, Bear, and some science, tech & programming related subreddits. Having to constantly switch between various sites to stay up to date was frustrating. So, I built Lime Reader.
It aggregates the top articles on STEAMD topics (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math, and Design) from various forums and displays them in chronological order. An article's score is determined by the number of points/upvotes & comments it has in the source forum. The % selection buttons at the top of the home page lets you select what % of the top posts per source you want to see. For example, selecting 5% will show you the top 5% from each source i.e. the cream of the crop. Selecting 100% will show you everything. Note that % is on a per source & per 24 hour window basis because each source forum has variable amounts of traffic (and hence variable amounts of points & comments) and it also varies throughout the week.
You can customize theme and other stuff in the settings page. Also, by default, headlines that are classified as political by an LLM are dimmed and show a "P" before them. You can disable dimming or entirely block political headlines in settings. You can also block headlines by keywords/phrases, domain, and source.
I have engineered Lime Reader to be as small in size as possible so that it loads instantly. It works even with JavaScript disabled (though enabling it gives you a few extra features).
This site has no VC backing. Please support me in paying for the server and development costs. If you'd like to keep this site and my other projects alive and ad-free, either send me a PayPal donation or make an in-app-purchase from one of my apps below.
Lime Reader has currently aggregated 100935 articles. I hope it saves you time from having to constantly switch between sites. If you have any feedback for this site or any of my apps, email me at pran [at] pranapps [d0t] com.
Pran
Developer of apps like:
HACK - the best way to browse Hacker News on iOS, macOS, and Android.
Minder - a flashcards app for memorizing your studies. It helps you optimize your memory and learning speed.
Floating - simplest way to picture-in-picture (float) as many videos, photos and even websites on top of all windows on a Mac.
Menu Timer - a one-click timer which stays in your Mac's menubar.
Sudoku Extreme - beautiful way to play classic Sudoku puzzles for both beginners & advanced players.
Check out all my apps on the Apple platform or the Android platform.