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4 very rare things just happened:

1) An application announcement on HN that genuinely appealed to me.

2) A single guy beat Google at UX in one of their best web applications (exposing the original site design for the feed is a fantastic idea!)

3) I paid for an application before it's ready.

4) I felt this was all so important I logged in to post this comment. :)

Kudos, you've done a fantastic job here. I really hope your environs permit you to keep this project going - it's a great idea, and I'm in love with it already!

One of the major problems I have with Reader is that certain low output feeds (making up the majority of my subscriptions) just seem to blend together - I forget why I subscribed to them, and have to go back to the original web page to try and figure out who the person is. Exposing the original page by default solves this beautifully. :)

Great work!

Edit: something I forgot. Visual display of the site allows me to instantly demonstrate RSS to my mother. Google Reader confused the hell out of her. :)

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