I was reading through the feeds in my Feedbin account a couple of weeks ago, as one does, and a passing curiosity grabbed me: when did I actually sign up to Feedbin, and what were my first subscriptions? I’m not sure if it’s possible to get this information from the frontend, but it turns out you can get it from Feedbin’s API. So I plugged in my auth details and took a look.

Screenshot of the response of Feedbin's subscription API, showing entries for Marco.org, Daring Fireball, and Six Colors

My first two subscriptions were back on 24 May 2017, for Marco Arment and Daring Fireball, although I’m sure there were others that I’ve since removed. I’m taking that to be the date I actually signed up to Feedbin, and I suspect that these two were part of collection of feeds that I moved from older RSS reader I was using at the time1.

I won’t go through every subscription I have but I will point out a few interesting ones. For instance, I thought I subscribed to Manton Reece much earlier, but apparently it was only on the 6th March 2020. I subscribed to Seth Godin on the 8th December 2020. And the latest subscription was added only a few weeks ago, on the 10th of November of this year.

All up, I’m currently subscribed to 64 feeds. Now, if only I could remember how I discovered these feeds.

  1. That was hand-built, and I should dig it out and see if I can get it working again, just to remind myself how it looked. I do know that it used Google’s Material design language. ↩︎