Kill the Newsletter!
Turn any email newsletter into an RSS feed and read it in your reader.
About
Kill the Newsletter!, by Leandro Facchinetti, solves the inbox-versus-newsletter problem with a trick so simple it feels like cheating: for every newsletter you want, it generates a unique email address and a matching Atom feed. You type the newsletter's name, subscribe that address to the newsletter, and paste the feed into your RSS reader. New issues arrive as feed items — no email, no inbox guilt, and a unique address per newsletter that makes tracking harder and unsubscribing painless. If a newsletter sends a confirmation email, it appears as a feed item whose link you click once to confirm.
The service is free and the code is open source under the MIT license on GitHub (about 3,100 stars), so you can self-host if you don't trust a one-person service with your subscriptions — the project's own guides acknowledge exactly that risk and recommend keeping your own list of subscriptions as a backup. There are no accounts and no settings to manage; it's one page that does one thing. Honest tradeoffs: it is one person's side project with no company or SLA, random-looking email addresses get blocked by some newsletter signup forms, and it adds a relay into a system that can occasionally delay delivery.
What it can do
- One-click generation of a unique email address plus a matching Atom feed per newsletter
- Newsletters arrive as reader items — inbox stays untouched
- Unique address per newsletter reduces cross-newsletter tracking
- Confirmation links work through the feed
- Free public service with no account
- MIT-licensed, self-hostable from GitHub
Setup
Go to kill-the-newsletter.com and type the newsletter's name. Copy the generated email address and use it to subscribe to the newsletter; copy the generated Atom feed URL and add it to your RSS reader. If the newsletter requires confirmation, open the confirmation item in your reader and click the link once. Optionally self-host from the GitHub repo instead of using the public service.
Prerequisites
A web browser and any RSS reader; a self-hosted domain if you want to run your own instance.
Use cases
Works with
Trust score — 7/10
Scored 7/10 (metrics tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: MIT-licensed on GitHub (leafac/kill-the-newsletter) with 3,113 stars and commits pushed October 3, 2026; the per-newsletter address + Atom feed workflow is independently documented by multiple bloggers; the project is transparent about being a one-person operation. Strengths: does one thing perfectly, free, self-hostable, no account. Docked for: (1) one-person side project with no SLA; (2) some signup forms block random-looking addresses; (3) adds a relay that can occasionally delay delivery. License: MIT.
★ 3,113 GitHub stars
How the trust score is built
Full methodology →- Adoption · stars/downloads, log-scaled vs peers
- 7.0/10
- Maintenance · recency, releases, issue load
- 7.0/10
- Openness · license + docs
- 10.0/10
- Manual review · sanity read + red-flag check
- 7.0/10
- · 3,113 GitHub stars (Oct 16, 2026 snapshot), commits pushed Oct 3, 2026; MIT; by Leandro Facchinetti; free public service, no account
- · Unique email address + Atom feed per newsletter; confirmation links work through the feed; self-hostable
- · One-person side project, no SLA; some signup forms block random-looking addresses; relay can occasionally delay delivery
Sources
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