1) Design has value. RSS readers strip the aesthetic qualities out of a web page and leave you with sterile text. Given the way some websites have been designed this is sometimes a good thing, but at other times I feel like I'm missing part of the experience.

2) Some sites only offer summary-only RSS feeds for various reasons.

Prldr could solve both of these problems really nicely. Consider expanding the project to allow uploading an OPML file, and tracking what users have read.

It's got a very basic API, so you can use it to create and update your own lists.

I can think of multiple use cases for it. For example: load your twitter feed, scrape the links and display them, load all your rss feeds and display them, open up all links off a frontpage, to preload them.

What do you think? What kind of things must I add to make it useful for you? You might just not like it, because of the iframe technique used, just ignore it then, it really is a very hackerish tool and not meant to be more than that.

It currently works best in Chrome/Safari.

The "are you sure you want to leave" alert makes me want to go away and stay away--it is not the helpful "close all open tabs?" from closing FireFox.

Have you considered using the right sidebar instead? Consider having a clean left-leading edge for readability.

Edit: Not to put too fine a point on, but the preload urls show up as visited anchor links (which I may not have read) when I go back to HN. Sometimes bug fixes can suggest a radically new way forward.

Definitely needs a STOP button, though; stopping the current page using my browser didn't stop it from preloading.

Works fine in Opera, by the way.