FewFeed V1 was, to be blunt, a promising but frustrating beta. It had the "killer feature" of multi-source de-duplication, but it crashed often and had a UI that looked like it was built on a dare. When FewFeed V2 dropped three months ago with promises of "enterprise reliability" and "AI categorization," I was skeptical. After 90 days of daily driving it, here is the honest verdict. 1. The De-Duplication Engine is Finally Flawless The original promise of FewFeed was to solve the "same story, 15 sources" problem. In V1, this was a mess—it often flagged entirely different articles as duplicates if they shared a keyword. V2 has introduced a semantic similarity hash . It no longer looks at URLs or titles; it looks at meaning . I saw a major security breach reported by Krebs, BleepingComputer, and The Record. FewFeed V2 bundled them into a single card with a "View 3 sources" toggle. It didn't miss a single legitimate duplicate. This alone saves me 45 minutes a day.
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I’ve been in the content aggregation game for nearly a decade. I cut my teeth on the original RSS, survived the death of Google Reader, and have tried every "modern" alternative from Feedly to Inoreader to self-hosted Tiny Tiny RSS. My use case is niche but demanding: I monitor approximately 450 sources ranging from obscure security bulletins, arXiv paper releases, GitHub commit feeds, Substack newsletters, and Twitter lists. fewfeed v2
You can now filter using traditional regex (for power users) OR natural language. I set a filter: "Only show me articles about 'AI regulation' if they mention 'EU' or 'California,' but hide anything that is just a press release." The LLM parses this with about 95% accuracy. I've cut my feed noise by 70%. Where FewFeed V2 Stumbles (The Frustrations) 1. The Pricing Tiers Feel Punitive FewFeed V2 starts at $8/mo for 100 feeds, which is fine. But to unlock the "Semantic De-dup" (the main feature), you need the Professional tier at $24/mo . To get the "Hybrid Mode" with LLM filters, that's $39/mo . For a solo power user, this is steep. I understand servers cost money, but hiding the core differentiator behind a mid-tier paywall feels like bait-and-switch. The free tier (20 feeds, no de-dup) is essentially useless. FewFeed V1 was, to be blunt, a promising