Feedless

@rrhoover Thanks! As I mentioned to @patricklu10, VPN would be an obvious stage 2. I think it could take a more technical/utility route or a more community focused route. It's become cool to complain about social media usage and addiction, and I'm not sure how that impacts actual behavior change as opposed to signaling it about this newly acceptable problem. If it starts to take off, it would be important to narrow in the marketing on one or the other. Also, I think there's a potential opportunity with parents. I'll watch how people use it and assess from there! I'm also interested in talking to those who have been researching the space for longer, the folks at http://humanetech.com/ among others.

@caseynewton Hi Casey, glad you liked it. He's tall, and quite flexible is his opinion of Brussels sprouts. Pretty funny given how much time he spends scrolling twitter.

@orbuch Damn. Jealous you got to meet him!!!

@patricklu10 that's the main issue for sure :). Safari blockers are easy to build and secure, whereas solutions that would block feeds in the apps themselves would require access to some or all of the device's network traffic (and perhaps a root SSL cert as well). I hope Feedless helps me evaluate demand for more robust or systemwide solutions.

@frankmeeuwsen thanks! I was wondering if Facebook being free "counts" as a test run for the other services. I guessed on pricing out of the gate and definitely open to adjusting if necessary.

@orbuch I understand. I’d say wait for some of the other feedback and see what works. It’s no problem for me to make a test Facebook account of course. I am surprised by your ability to check what I have installed. Shouldn’t this need an extra approval from the user to check this?

@frankmeeuwsen good question! Apple restricts the install checking apps can do, up until recently it was a privacy risk as it was used for device fingerprinting. Feedless only checks for Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.