Developer Builds LLM-Powered RSS News Feed to Replace Google Discover

On 2026-11-12, a developer posted on DEV Community describing how they built a personalized news feed with an LLM and RSS and replaced Google Discover on their Samsung phone. The post opens with the developer saying they love swiping left on their home screen with a coffee in hand to catch up on what is going on in the world, but that they dislike what the recommendations there show. So they built their own feed, called it Samizdat, and placed it exactly where Google Discover used to be.

The materials available for this event consist of a single report, and it is a first-person account written by the developer themselves. What can be confirmed from the material is the setup at a high level: an RSS feed as the source, an LLM used to filter out junk, merge duplicate coverage, and produce summaries, and a home screen widget that sits on the left page of a Samsung phone where Google Discover had been. The developer says the post will walk through the details, including the small hack needed to get their own widget onto the left page, the Cloudflare setup behind it, and the choices involved in the design. The existing excerpt cuts off before those sections, so the specific implementation, the RSS sources chosen, the LLM involved, and how the summarization and filtering were configured are not documented in the material. There is also no indication of any wider uptake, forks, or community response beyond this single post.