2.1k stars · MIT · v1.2.1 (2026-07-28) · Track this in Scout
A self-hosted RSS and Atom reader that runs as one Go binary in about 50 MB of memory, with a Fever API so existing phone apps can sync against it.
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What it is
Fusion is a single Go program with its own small database built in. It reads RSS and Atom feeds, which are the plain machine-readable version of a blog that most sites still publish, and gives you groups, unread counts, bookmarks and full-text search over everything it has collected.What it is good for. Anybody who wants to follow an industry without a social feed deciding the order. It also works as a quiet competitor watch: point it at the blogs of the products you compete with and you see every announcement the day it appears. It speaks the Fever protocol, so existing phone apps such as Reeder and Unread can read from it. The README says plainly that there are no AI features by design. For you: the marketing entries in earlier editions all assumed you were watching what competitors publish. This is the cheapest way to actually do that.
- About 50 MB of memory. It runs on a Raspberry Pi or the smallest box Hetzner sells.
- One file and one folder. Backing it up means copying one directory.
- The licence is MIT, and there is no paid tier and no account.
- It is really a one-person tool. Access is one shared password, not real user accounts, so it is not something to share with a team.
- Small project, largely one maintainer. The release information shown on its own front page was out of date when we checked, which is a small sign that the housekeeping is loose.
- Self-hosting is still self-hosting. You choose the server, set the password, and own the backups.
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docker run -it -d -p 8080:8080 \ -v $(pwd)/fusion:/data \ -e FUSION_PASSWORD="choose-a-real-password" \ ghcr.io/0x2e/fusion:latest
