Show HN: Oku – One tab to filter out noise from feeds and content sources
oku.ioHey everyone,
For a while now I've been frustrated with how I was 'experiencing' the internet. From opening articles and getting bombarded with popups, banners and ads to opening feeds and seeing so much AI spam and algorithm-based content I was not interested in. If you add tab hopping to that, you get how it all becomes a confusing and not-so productive experience.
Oku.io is my solution to this problem. It's a tool that allows you to create organized, clean boards with the feeds and content you're interested in (HN Show/Front/Ask, ProductHunt, Reddit, RSS, and a lot more), and see them either in a grid to monitor all at once, in a focus view where you visualize one panel at a time, or in a daily/weekly email digest that extracts the top content from each panel.
I've been actively using it and I'm happy with how it turned out. I find myself scrolling and switching tabs way less, and I feel like I'm not missing anything important anymore. Both for my work-related stuff and for my personal interests.
If you check it out, I'd love to hear your feedback. I'm very keen on continuing to improve it. If you allowed me to import an OPML file to get a sense for how this would work for my feed I'd check it out, but requiring a login before I can do anything real is kind of a non-starter. Working on no-signup public boards with presets (finance, tech, entertainment) now. The year is 2006 and Netvibes is hosting a huge party in San Francisco after raising in the Web 2.0 craze. They are yet to find out they will become a footnote in history to be rediscovered in 20 years’ time. Feed overload is real but curious how you handle the cold start. The tool is only as good as the sources you bring in day one. Hey! So in the onboarding there's a templates section with pre-populated boards, and I'm also working on public (live) boards people can use with without signup. Yep and Firefox's inbuilt Reader View button also helps. But, "Lite web" is the next big thing.