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Miniflux

Minimalist, opinionated feed reader

verified 2026-07-02Apache-2.0self-hostable

Arete score

5.0 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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✓ Verified by a human against the public rubric on 2026-07-02 · see the evidence ↓

Why it's listed

Written by the ValueIndex editor, from the verification pass of 2026-07-02.

Miniflux is an opinionated feed reader: no algorithm, no suggestions, ~20MB of RAM, and a hosted option priced at $15/year — the price of honesty about what software actually costs to run. Written in Go against Postgres, with a deliberate absence of JavaScript frameworks. We verified the resource footprint and hosted pricing.

Facts

License: Apache-2.0
Pricing: Free / $15yr hosted
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Replaces: Feedly
Verification: Verified against the rubric on 2026-07-02

Evidence notes

Go+Postgres, ~20MB RAM; no JS framework; transparent hosted pricing

Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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