Feedloft is a fast, keyboard-first RSS reader you host yourself — folders, OPML import/export, full-text extraction, and instant search, in a dense dark-mode 3-pane layout built to be driven entirely from the keyboard (j/k to move, o to open, s to star, / to search, ? for the cheat sheet). Feedly Pro is $8/mo — $96 a year to read feeds that are, by definition, free and open. Feedloft is $24 once: one Node process, one SQLite file, zero telemetry, break-even in three months.

• Add feeds by URL with automatic discovery from any webpage; RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0/RDF, and Atom

• OPML import preserves folder structure; export is valid OPML 2.0

• Smart polling: conditional GET (ETag/Last-Modified), per-feed intervals, automatic backoff

• Full vim-style keyboard set with an in-app cheat sheet

• Full-text extraction via Mozilla Readability for feeds that only publish summaries

• Instant FTS5 full-text search across titles and content, even with tens of thousands of articles

• Folders, unread counts, All and Starred views

• No accounts, no analytics — the only network calls are to feeds you subscribed to

Runs as a Windows desktop app or on a $5 VPS (Docker included).

What's included:

• Windows installer download (build via npm run dist)

• Full source access — https://github.com/bensblueprints/feedloft (MIT)

• Lifetime v1 updates

• Setup guide (README quick start)

• Premium tiers coming later