Starter Packs
Not sure where to start?
You Need Feeds is happy to provide starter packs of feeds on a wide range of topics and interests. Download a starter pack, import it into your feed reader, and you’ll be instantly subscribed to a bundle of feeds on the topic of your choice.
How Starter Packs Work
Starter packs are OPML files, a kind of file that bundles several feeds together in a convenient package. To use a starter pack, download the pack and import it into your feed reader (the process for imports varies from reader to reader). Pick as many starter packs as you want - there's no limit on how many you can import.
Our Starter Pack Topics
USA News Firehose
Books Bundle
Account Avoidance
Comic Collection
Podcast Pack
Delicious Dining
Fascination Station
Gaming Greatness
Science Showcase
Tinseltown Tour
Music Hotline
Travel Trail
Tech Talk
Politics Fightbox
Everything by Everyone
And More?
USA News Firehose
The USA News Firehose starterpack includes a set of subscriptions to keep you up to date on the very latest in United States news.
Reuters US News
Fox News
CNN US Headlines
Books Bundle
Get the best new reads direct to your feeds.
NYT Book Review
Goodreads Blog
Guardian Books
New York Review of Books
Account Avoidance
Many sites across the internet demand you register in order to subscribe to your favourite channels and creators. What isn't always on display is that those same channels offer web feeds that you can access without needing an account at all! This pack offers a grab bag of interesting content from the web, along with a demonstration of the variety of major sites in which you can skip registration entirely.
Youtube - Primitive Technology
Tumblr - BEEPLE
Reddit - 'Aww' subreddit
Vimeo - Kosuke Sugimoto
Comic Collection
Liven up your life with a selection of serial storytelling and daily funnies. Includes:
XKCD
Three Panel Soul
Kill Six Billion Demons
Let's Speak English
Foxtrot
Dilbert
Hark a Vagrant
Nedroid
Podcast Pack
A 'podcast' is a kind of radio show delivered to you via the internet. They can be true crime, serial fiction, documentaries, and much more. There are dedicated podcast players out there, but you don't need a dedicated podcast player to keep up with the latest in audio storytelling. Podcast players are actually a type of specialised feed reader at their core, so you can keep track ofyour podcast subscriptions in your regular feed reader. Includes:
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Uncanny Japan
Darknet Diaries
Noclip
Lore
Plumbing the Death Star
The Magnus Archives
Revolutions
Delicious Dining
Indulge in this excess of recipes and dining experiences.
Smitten Kitchen
Serious Eats
Skinnytaste
Fascination Station
Feed your mind with these treasure troves of interesting histories and discussions.
Atlas Obscura
Damn Interesting
99PI
Gaming Greatness
News, reviews, previews and more from the electronic world.
It Runs Doom!
Nerfwire
Niche Gamer
No Wrong Way to Play
Rock Paper Shotgun
Steam Spy
IGN
Major Nelson
Gematsu
Tiny Cartridge
Co Optimus
Science Showcase
News from the new frontiers of science, and more!
What If? xkcd
NASA Image of the day
Popular Science
New Scientist
Scientific American
Tinseltown Tour
From Hollywood glamour to home viewing on Netflix, you'll find it here.
Slashfilm
The AV Club
Enterntainment Weekly
TMZ
Music Hotline
The latest sounds straight to your ears.
3Hive
NME
Stereogum
Pitchfork
Bandcamp Daily
Travel Trail
There's a whole world out there to explore, and this pack is here to help guide you.
Lonely Planet
The Points Guy
Adventure Journal
Guns Galore
Keep up to date with the tools you need for sports, hunting and personal security.
Forgotten Weapons
Impro Guns
NRA Blog
The Firearm Blog
Tech Talk
News and views from the bleeding edge of today's tech.
The Register
Hacker News
Lifehacker
TechCrunch
The Keyword (Official Google Blog)
Code Of Honor
Random ASCII
Coding Horror
The Old New Thing
Politics Fightbox
Missing just a little bit of the fight of social media? Get the latest hot takes and spicy opinions with this balanced collection of sources of discourse. Includes feeds for
Ace of Spades HQ
Vox
David Thompson
Slate
National Review's The Corner
Popehat
Slate Star Codex
Status 451
The Atlantic Best-Of
Sultan Knish
The Volokh Conspiracy
Five Thirty Eight
Everything by Everyone
Get all of the starter packs, combined!
Be warned, this is a *lot* of content! You might want to do some pruning after you’ve imported this megapack into your feed reader of choice.
And More?
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