A real-time alternative to RSS
RSS is great when a site publishes a feed and you are happy to poll it. Hypeline covers the rest of the web too: it turns feeds, feed-less pages and push sources into one deduplicated stream and pushes real changes to you, instead of leaving you to poll and de-noise a dozen separate feeds.
Where the two differ
| RSS reader / feed | Hypeline | |
|---|---|---|
| Sources it covers | Only sites that publish a feed | Feeds, feed-less HTML pages, and live push sources |
| How you get updates | You poll the feed on a timer | Pushed to you over SSE and signed webhooks |
| Duplicates | Re-sends whatever is in the feed | Deduplicated, never the same item twice |
| Noise | Template and timestamp changes leak through | Only genuinely new content becomes an event |
| Shape of the data | A different feed format per site | One normalized, versioned event schema |
| Filtering | Done client-side, after you fetch everything | Keyword and Boolean matching before delivery |
| Catch-up | Miss items if you were offline | Cursor-based catch-up and backfill |
Frequently asked questions
Is Hypeline a replacement for RSS?
It is a superset. Where a feed exists, Hypeline reads it. But it also covers pages that never had a feed and live push sources, and it turns all of them into one deduplicated real-time stream rather than a set of separate feeds you poll.
Can I still use it with sites that have RSS?
Yes. Point it at an RSS, Atom or JSON feed and it normalizes that feed into the same event stream as everything else, with duplicates removed and delivery over SSE, cursor or webhooks.
How is this different from a feed reader?
A feed reader polls on a fixed timer and shows you whatever the feed contains, including repeats and noise. Hypeline detects genuinely new content, never re-sends the same item, and pushes changes to your systems instead of waiting for the next poll.
How fast is it?
Latency depends on the source. Live push sources arrive in seconds, feed-based sources in minutes, and feed-less HTML diffing in minutes to tens of minutes. We describe it honestly rather than promising one universal number.
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