Thanks for the link Alex. It’s pleasant to see someone of your stature actually read/come across my blog and reference it.
As an alpha user I love feedlounge, even with the slow temperament of the system I can’t stop using it. The UI is just so wonderful. And that UI, I could imagine creates the some if not a lot of the load on the server.
And my worst fears, like you said about bloglines; is feedlounge going to get better or worse? I trust that you will try to work your magic but I wonder if that would be good enough when the beta rolls out and every “digger” hears the news of how great feedlounge is.
You said that you are considering a single-user app, something I would strongly advocate for two reasons. One, you would get direct revenue. Something you currently seem to have issues with because you can’t find an ad system (or did you?). Two, while giving a singe-user system with or without some keys feedlounge features, like the social aspect, you would capture those “advanced” users. Those advanced users have a lot of feeds and they want it fast, me included.
I really think that selling feedlounge as an app would sell wonderfully and would take some of that load off the “social” feedlounge. Making an even greater experience to pull in that 95% of the internet that doesn’t use an RSS aggregator.
I really hope Alex and Scott heed my requests because I really love the app, they did such a great job, and I would hate to see it not reach it’s potential becuase of bad reviews of it being slow, similar to what Google Reader just went through with it’s UI. Although Google’s name will pull it out of that bump and still pull in so many users that don’t really care or know.
I have my $30-40 paypal waiting for you guys, and if you need beta testers you know how to contact me.
