RSS Self-Heal Mirror

Keeps podcast and content aggregators running when YouTube RSS feeds go dark

Problem

Developers report YouTube channel RSS feeds returning 404 for days, turning brief outages into sustained blackouts that silently break podcast automation and content pipelines. Users rely on RSS as a free, stable subscription source, and when the platform tightens access, the whole distribution chain stalls.

Solution

A hosted RSS proxy and backup service: it continuously polls the YouTube channel feeds users care about, detects 404s or format changes, and automatically falls back to alternative fetching paths (public page parsing, third-party mirrors). It republishes a normalized feed at a stable URL, with outage alerts and a feed health dashboard.

Users

Podcast automation operators, content aggregation site owners, indie creators running newsletters off RSS

MVP

Proxy and cache YouTube channel RSS only; trigger fallback parsing on 404 and log diffs; generate stable RSS URLs users can paste into existing tools; email alerts on feed failure; simple feed health status page

Revenue

Subscription by number of monitored feeds (e.g., 5 free, 20 for $9/mo) or usage-based fetching; offer self-hosted license buyout

Why now

Platforms are tightening open feeds gradually, and small creators and aggregators depending on RSS need a buffer layer; an indie developer can build this quickly without platform partnerships