About RSS Bandit
RSS Bandit began as a small idea: read everything you follow without opening a browser. These days that idea is less about feeds and more about which AI tools actually help you keep up — and which ones are just noise.
Where this started · 2003–2018
An open-source feed reader, then a publication
RSS Bandit launched in 2003 as an open-source RSS and podcast reader for Windows, with support for NNTP newsgroups and syncing with services like Google Reader. It built a real following over the next decade, was covered by outlets including Ars Technica and PCMag, and picked up links and mentions from developers like Scott Hanselman along the way.
The project’s code moved to GitHub in 2010, and development continued in smaller bursts before going quiet in the years that followed. In 2026, the site was rebuilt as a publication — same instinct as the original reader, pointed at a different problem: which AI tools are actually worth using to manage the flood of feeds, podcasts, and news most people are drowning in.
What we cover
Guides on AI tools for reading, summarizing, and organizing what you follow — feed readers with AI built in, podcast and news curation tools, and practical walkthroughs for cutting a crowded inbox of sources down to what’s actually worth your time. We test what we write about rather than guessing at it.
Who writes this
Dennis Jones
Editor
Dennis has spent the last six years working in AI — building with it, writing about it, and trying to separate what’s actually useful from what’s just loud. His background spans software and web development, digital marketing, and copywriting, which shows up in how this site is run: guides are written by someone who’s built the workflows being described, not just read about them.
He took on RSS Bandit’s publication in 2026, picking up a project with real roots and pointing it at the next version of the same problem: too many sources, not enough time.
RSS Bandit was released as open source in 2010. The code is still on GitHub.