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by pentagrama·3y ago·view on hn ↗
I will not be surprised if Google relaunches Google Reader in 2023. Without fanfare, and as a simple, limited and low-effort product as Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com).

It will be a nice experiment for them, they don't dominate on the Social Media or Newsletters field, and a RSS reader challenges that field in some ways. Also a act of redeeming the killing of that product 10 years earlier (for a mostly nerdy/vocal minority).

If successful obviously they will put ads on them later (Google Podcasts remains ad-free for now).

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Google reader was such a great product. Why oh why did they get rid of it. I'm using rss2email + opensmtpd on a virtual machine to email me my rss to a special news email account. It updates every hour and sends me emails of my rss. I see it on my iphone home screen but not notifications so I can view them at my leisure.
It would be a good April Fools event, a few of their good products were launched in that date, like gmail.

Or a Halloween one, the launch of Google Zombie Reader.