About LightWatch

How hard could it be to parse RSS?

As I sat remembering a service from years ago called Lookwork — an RSS reader, but just for images — that insidious thought stuck in my brain. I spent the early days of my career using it to follow design blogs for inspiration. In recent years I've found myself missing that daily dose of oh that's coolevery morning. I decided I'd spend a weekend seeing if I could bring that back into my life in some way.

It turns out, RSS was easy. The hard part? Everything else. What followed was a brief 20 month detour as I learned all the technologies required to make LightWatch a spiritual successor modern upgrade to Lookwork.

I'm Cameron McEfee, a former creative director and illustrator turned indie software developer. I built LightWatch so I could keep up with the creative things I love and avoid working on the things I really should be working on.