Starter feeds for your first week

These are the sources the founder reads daily. Every URL below was fetched and parsed as RSS, Atom or RDF in November 2026, and each one is copy-paste ready for Curated Feeds, so your first week of reading starts with signal rather than noise.

Technology & Engineering

The general-interest technology desk, from fast-breaking startup news to deeper reporting on research and engineering practice. Start here if you want to know what shipped.

TechCrunch

Startups, venture funding rounds, and product launches, reported quickly and updated through the day.

https://techcrunch.com/feed/
Daily

Hacker Noon

First-person technical writing from practitioners on software, blockchain, and building products.

https://hackernoon.com/feed
Daily

Business & Strategy

Two slower, denser sources. These publish less often, and each piece is an argument about how technology businesses actually work.

Stratechery

Analysis of technology strategy and business models, published as a weekly essay rather than a news ticker.

https://stratechery.com/feed/
Weekly essays

Stripe Increment

Issue-based reporting on software engineering practice, one theme per issue, written for working engineers.

https://increment.com/feed.xml
Quarterly

World & Science

One wire-service-scale desk for the rest of the story. Everything else on this page is trade press; this is the context it sits inside of.

How to add these

Paste any URL on this page into the add-source field in Curated Feeds. URLs ending in /feed or /rss are the full article list rather than a homepage, and the app parses RSS 2.0, Atom, and RDF, which covers every source here.

Paste the feed URL

Open the add-source field in Curated Feeds and paste any URL from this page. Feeds ending in /feed or /rss point at the full article list rather than a homepage, and the app parses RSS 2.0, Atom, and RDF.

Read and categorise

New articles arrive as cards. Swipe right to save the ones worth keeping, left to mark them done, and group each source into a category.

The app fetches these feeds on your device. No server account is involved, and nothing here is proxied through an intermediary that could log what you read. For a source that does not advertise its feed, this guide finds almost any feed URL, and the reader comparison uses the same list as its test set.

Starter feed questions

Are these feeds free to subscribe to?

Yes. Every feed listed on this page is free to subscribe to. RSS is an open format, and Curated Feeds is free itself, with no ads and no account required.

Do I need an account on these sites to read their feeds?

No. A feed carries the published articles, so you can read them in any RSS reader without creating an account on the publisher site. The reader can also cache articles on your device for offline reading.

What if a feed URL stops working?

Publishers occasionally move a feed. When that happens, the app reports a fetch failure for that source, and a fresh URL is usually published somewhere on the site, often near a feed or subscribe link. Remove the old source and paste the new one.

Can I add a feed that is not on this list?

Yes. This page is a starting point, not a limit. Any standard RSS 2.0, Atom, or RDF feed URL works, which means blogs, newsletters, changelogs, and podcasts are all fair game.

Add them all in an evening

Download Curated Feeds for Android, free, no ads, no account. Paste a feed URL and start swiping.