Tapestry Kickstarter
With Project Tapestry, we’ll create a universal, chronological timeline for iOS for any data that’s publicly available on the Internet. A service-independent overview of your social media and information landscape. Point the app toward your services and feeds, then scroll through everything all in one place to keep up-to-date and to see where you want to dive deeper. When you find something that you want to engage with or reply to, Tapestry will let you automatically open that post in the app of your choice and reply to it there. Tapestry isn’t meant to replace your favorite Mastodon app or RSS reader, but rather to complement them and help you figure out where you want to focus your attention.
Tapestry’s universal timeline will be built around data source plug-ins. These are small bits of JavaScript code that translate between the native iOS app and the rest of the web.
One of the things I’ve learned from the Twitter debacle is that I don’t like scrolling through timelines, especially on my iPhone. I prefer a multi-pane, keyboard-controllable interface like with NetNewsWire or Vienna. I wish I could get everything except e-mail in there. Previous versions of NetNewsWire actually had a feature kind of like this where you could create a feed from a script.
Tapestry isn’t meant to replace your favorite Mastodon app or RSS reader, but rather to complement them and help you figure out where you want to focus your attention.
I’m not sure I want to add another app, but I love that they’re working in this space of combining multiple services into a single app.
Previously:
Update (2024-02-06): Niléane:
With The Iconfactory launching Project Tapestry this week, I was reminded of an indie app that I first started testing a few months ago. feeeed – that’s with four ‘e’s – by Nate Parrott is a feed reader app unlike any other I’ve seen on iOS.
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You can of course subscribe to any RSS feeds — the app lets you import an OPML file from other RSS reader apps — but you can also subscribe to a wide variety of different sources, including but not limited to: newsletters via Gmail, subreddits, YouTube channels, Twitter and Mastodon profiles, Hacker News, Tumblr blogs, TikTok accounts, and more.
A special mention goes to my absolute favorite custom integration in feeeed, which is the ability to select a part of a website to show up in your feed. You can select any area on any webpage, and that area will regularly show up in the Home tab of the app.
Kind of like the old Dashboard feature.
This post will explain the technology behind Project Tapestry and how we tested it as a prototype.
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There is a GitHub repository with full documentation of the JavaScript API and sample plug-ins. We think you’ll find that it’s a robust and extensible system, just like the web itself.
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Two amazing developers tackling this problem gives me hope. Thanks for sharing that Nigel, that's fantastic news.
A good rule of thumb is to never base your business on someone else's platform.
See also https://gloria.social/@rizzi/111856959119832404