Unexpected Attention
Sarah Perez over at Read/WriteWeb featured feedsqueezer in a post on the state of RSS management tools and the response has been overwhelming. We’ve received hundreds of requests from people interested in participating in the beta program and that number grows each day. Thanks to everyone who has reached out.
We’re excited to be recognized for our efforts, but we didn’t expect for it to happen so soon! It’s really pushed us to accelerate the release of the service.
feedsqueezer isn’t for everyone.
feedsqueezer will offer similar features to FeedBurner but much of our metrics may be new (and meaningful) to feed publishers. Yes, there will be a free version, but this will be a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business. (With business being the key word.) Beyond the free version, there will be tiered pricing based on your traffic volume as well as some advanced features. You may not need or want the features provided in the upper tiers, so you’re free to stick with the free service as long as you like.
We’re not out to “kill” anyone.
We’re finding the conversations about being a “FeedBurner-killer” interesting, but that’s not necessarily our goal. Feedburner has recently had a few hiccups while migrating to the Google infrastructure so naturally, people are frustrated and looking for alternatives. (That’s how Sarah stumbled upon us.)
Feedburner has performed a great service for people looking to manage and analyze their feeds but the simple fact is, you get what you pay for.
The premium, real-time features in feedsqueezer were created to allow for greater transparency, improved insights related to measuring and reporting subscribers and downloads, along with re-syndication and presentation. (What we call “Syndication PLUS“). We built this service because we wanted better management of our own RSS feeds for both text and podcasts.
You will always own your feeds.
We’ve heard many folks talk about “giving control of your feeds to a third-party.” While we’ll be helping you manage and analyze your feeds, you will continue to “own” them. Every feedsqueezer account will have the ability to create a CNAME for your domain (feeds.yourdomain.com/yourfeedname or audio.yourdomain.com/yourpodcastfeedname) which you’ll be able to move at any time. For those of you who don’t have your own domain, we’re speaking with the major blogging platform providers to enable them to integrate feedsqueezer for you.
We’ll also support the most popular blogging software. (Wordpress will be first, others will follow.) This support will enable feed publishers to redirect their feeds to the feedsqueezer service without ever having to add a CNAME.
In summary, thanks. We appreciate the support and are excited to help you start squeezing your feeds. Keep tuned to this channel for updates or follow @feedsqueezer on twitter.
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