Quite typically so, they aggregated around more “Frenchies” from the Valley… but also from France directly: for instance, they hired someone they found online, and with whom they used to work remotely, until they were convinced that it was a match for living and working in San Francisco. When they started on Feedly in 2008, as is often the case with startups, a few of them started with informal advisory roles before materializing into a co-founding team. The story really began in 1997 when Moutran and Edwin Khodabakchian, now Feedly CEO, were “cubicle mates” at Netscape. That’s how we went into RSS and Atom, ie open feeds.” The little known story of a French startup gone big Moutran said: “We were thinking of designers, lawyers, mums… people who want to keep up to date with what is going on in their respective spaces but not just via social networks.
At the outset, Feedly was thought out around the premise that the amount web content would grow indefinitely, and that we were likely to experience exponential device multiplication. Let’s rewind a little…Īlthough we’re arguably far from the first version of Feedly’s product that was built late 2008, the spirit remains the same. 1 news app on all app stores within the first 48 hours of Google Reader’s retirement announcement, onboarding 500K stranded “migrants,” including a huge influx of users on its Firefox, Chrome, and Safari extensions. It’s true that there’s no shortage of other options for readers on the market. “The content you find and mark on Feedly allows you to share and participate in conversations on specific topics: smart, interesting conversations that allow you to network.” “The thinking behind this is that information is power,” Cyril Moutran, Feedly co-founder, product and strategy, in an interview with VentureBeat. The changes are design-driven, making it even easier for the you to search for or discover feeds, as well as save and share them. Feedly is also launching updated mobiles apps with a redesigned user experience, which should further cement itself as a true Google Reader replacement. The startup announced today that it has clocked in 3 million new users on its mobile apps and web browser extensions, following Google’s decision to retire Reader. On Wednesday, Feedly promised that it would clone the Google Reader API to give users a "seamless transition" when Reader shuts down, and other RSS app makers, including the creators of Press and Reeder, have also indicated they are committed to finding a solution.Feedly emerged as the “natural” successor for Google Reader, as Reader users sought out a new way to get their news fixed. The Google Reader shutdown will force users and developers of third-party RSS clients using Reader's services to find a new solution keep their news aggregators running. According to Feedly, their main priorities in the next month would be to ensure that the service is reliable, listen to the suggestions of new users, and weekly additions of features. In order to keep up with the large number of new users switching from Google reader, Feedly also said that they've increased their bandwidth by ten times, and added new servers. Feedly Added Half a Million Google Reader Users in Two Daysįeedly, a popular third-party RSS client, revealed on its blog that they've added more than half a million users since Google Reader's retirement was announced.
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