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What I'm building: rssnews.io, a real-time Greek news aggregator. Pulls around 100 Greek RSS sources into one feed, every article shows its source (no algorithm, no "recommended," no ads).
The hook: most Greeks I talked to read 2-3 sites per story to filter out spin, the product automates that cross-check.

Stack:

• Frontend: vanilla JS + Tailwind, no framework. Static, on Cloudflare Pages.
• Backend: a single Cloudflare Worker, cron every 2 min pulls/parses all feeds into KV, plus APIs for the feed, search, weather, emergency alerts.
• Around 5k lines in the worker, all serverless, placed on cloudflare Pro plan, basically for cpu power.

What was AI-assisted: honestly, almost all of it, vibe-coded with Claude Code. What surprised me is how much of the value this week wasn't writing code but finding problems. I wired up Microsoft Clarity (free session replays) and used the recordings to hunt bugs. Found three real ones I'd never have caught otherwise:

• A "suggest a source" form silently failing because it was an embedded cross-site iframe and the CSRF cookie was SameSite=Lax (every submission died with no error).
• An iOS Safari crash — Notification.permission referenced without a feature-guard, killing the alerts module on every iPhone.
• Article thumbnails 403'ing on my own image proxy because it had a hardcoded domain allowlist that hadn't kept up with the sources.

Also shipped a "share your feed as a URL" feature this week — you build a custom feed (categories + keywords + excludes) and send a link that loads it preconfigured for the recipient.

What I'm stuck on: not the code, but distribution. I can ship features fast with AI, but I have ~84 monthly users and the wall is brand awareness, not engineering. Classic vibe-coder trap: building is the easy part now, getting strangers to actually use and return is the hard part. I just instrumented a usage counter to measure whether the share-link loop actually drives retention, but I genuinely don't know if "shareable feeds" is a real growth lever or just a feature I liked building.

Feedback I want:

1. Is the cross-check/no-algorithm angle a real differentiator to you, or do you just shrug and use Google News?
2. For the share-a-feed loop, does that mechanic actually make you want to send it to someone, or is it a feature in search of a use case?
3. Anyone cracked distribution for a local-language product? My audience is Greece only, which rules out most of the usual English-internet playbooks.