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I think everyone would want this program even for $20 if it can cleanly and easily convert the average rss feed into a nice full article with the right links followed for each site, and if the viewer has similar capabilities to Vade Mecum or eReader or iSilo.
The real trick seems to be getting content isolated, which in my opinion is what would drive sales. An RSS feed usually gives a tibit teaser, and the link is an offline nightmare. The link usually has a lot of worthless header and left column stuff that you have to scroll past to get to the article text. Not only is it in the way, but it leads to a lot of extraneous links that waste space and clipping time. And in some cases, the articles linked to from the RSS feed are multiple page articles of unknown number of pages.
I think any tool that can isolate the real article on the majority of sites for clipping and reading would become the primary reader of most PDA users. Even if the value-added from the integrated reader software is minimal, it will be a hot item. (Assuming it's not a pain to read with, of course.)
Even if that content can't be trimmed, it would probably be sufficient if link control could focus somehow on the heart of the articles and then when the article opens it jumps directly to the text of the article (i.e. past the left hand column and top of page "garbage").
But at any rate, I want to support Laurens and this sort of development activity, so I'll buy it at anything <$25 if it's a program that I could make use of at all.
If it is a reader that I can use to consolidate and read all my web content and rss feed content, and it works for most sites without too much garbage or long conversion times or huge file sizes, then it would not only be nice, but revolutionary!
Look forward to seeing the "real deal" this summer. I'm on the edge of my seat. Best of luck with the project, Laurens!
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