RSS feeds were the big thing. Many content management systems were able to generate a feed that users could access in their RSS readers. But there were still many old websites that did not have such a feed. So there was a need for a solution.
I developed the first version of RSSify that could scrape a web page and turn it into a valid RSS 0.91 feed. This was also my first AJAX application, the forerunner of today’s Single Page Application (SPA) frameworks. Later I added the ability for webmasters to tag their posts or news with HTML comments, which made scraping for RSSify easier and more reliable.
And then I added numerous options. RSSify could generate RSS 0.92, RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0 feeds, convert all kinds of date formats and even include reader comments. It could generate a dynamic feed in PHP that webmasters could store on their server, or a static RSS file.