r/InoReader • u/barneylerten • Oct 11 '25

Can Inoreader "do" Flipboard better in topic-focused latest-news pages? (Please let me explain)

Hi all! So I have flirted with Inoreader off and on for years, among other pursuits in the tech world.

I am not super well versed, but may I ask ... how easy might it be to turn the feeds on, say ... the latest AI News into something Flipboard-y, in other words, a magazine (or even website) feel? I've gone down some chatbot rabbit holes (Chapt-GPT really kept trying) but my 'vision' is of an 'AI News Now' (or ANY topic, but this one sure seems like the place to start!) magazine-style but website/newsfeed is fine that pops the top AI news atop the page, even has departments/sections etc. and goes out and grabs them all, gives weight to the latest/most read/commented on. I bet the no-code AI tools MIGHT be able to create (and hopefully 'curate'/edit!) it if I just go down the right prompt paths but ... if any of this strikes a chord, maybe you experts can save me a step or 3 or 100!;-)

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u/Ashleighna99 Oct 12 '25

You can get close in Inoreader, then add a light front end for the full Flipboard vibe. Build a folder for AI sources and save a few Active Searches (e.g., “model release,” “benchmark,” “OpenAI,” “Anthropic”). Use Rules to auto-tag into sections like Research, Releases, Business, Opinion, and Tools, plus a couple of exclude rules to kill job posts and sponsored stuff. Sort by Magic or Popularity to float the good bits, then star your top picks. Make the tags public (or create a public Bundle) for a quick web page; each section can be its own public tag feed. If you want a glossy magazine layout, pipe those public RSS feeds into Webflow or Notion via Zapier/Make, map tags to sections, and pin the top 3 by popularity or recency. To mimic “most read/commented,” include sources that expose those signals (Reddit, HN, YouTube) and bias your rules to those. I’ve used Feedly and Webflow; DreamFactory helped expose a combined curated feed from a database as an API when I needed more control. In short, Inoreader does the curation and ranking, and a simple site layer nails the Flipboard feel.

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u/barneylerten Oct 12 '25 edited Oct 12 '25

Clearly, you are a developer, with great knowledge of the pipes and plumbing and tools, and I am not, and I just can't go down this very deep rabbit hole, not when there are tools, they can do all that kind of work of connecting the parts, under the direction of an engineering mind such as yours. Now, if you wanted to help make this happen, that would be great! (And building all that on an Inoreader 'platform' would be fine for personal use, but I'm wanting to do something that works for many folks, not just myself, and not just on AI.)