Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying(wereadit.com)
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Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying
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fair point, so I built it: email+password login is live now, with TOTP 2FA in settings. passwords are checked against known breach dumps too.
Looks good! Is there a bulk import or something? I have a lot of unread articles saved in my Vivaldi Browser :/
shipped this since your comment: Settings → Import takes Pocket/Instapaper CSVs or any pasted list of links. for Vivaldi, open your bookmarks export and paste the contents, it picks up the URLs.
Is there an offline mode planned? That's one of the features I miss most from Pocket.
You might want to try Slax Reader – it saves full page snapshots for offline reading, and the content stays available even if the original link goes dead.
I miss Pocket! Looks cool, cute graphics. Good luck with your app!
thanks! Pocket loyalists are exactly who I built this for.
this is a great idea, always wanted to build it myself, well i think i don't need to anymore
one of the actual apps that can save the day tbh
one of the actual apps that can save the day tbh
glad to hear, enjoy!
That Explore section is pretty neat.
I was a heavy Pocket user. It shut down. So did Perch, and Artifact, all within a couple of years. They had one thing in common: simple, single-purpose apps for people who wanted to read, and that kind of app doesn't survive on its own.
So I built my own over a weekend, mostly so I'd stop losing the essays I meant to come back to. Clean reader, audio for walks, search, public collections. It's free. It's rough in places and things will break, but I'll keep fixing them.
The browser extension is open source: https://github.com/mahmoudalwadia/readit-extension
The app is the small part though. I wrote about why I read essays here: https://mahmoudalwadia.com/writing/essays
So I built my own over a weekend, mostly so I'd stop losing the essays I meant to come back to. Clean reader, audio for walks, search, public collections. It's free. It's rough in places and things will break, but I'll keep fixing them.
The browser extension is open source: https://github.com/mahmoudalwadia/readit-extension
The app is the small part though. I wrote about why I read essays here: https://mahmoudalwadia.com/writing/essays
Without a traditional login this is as user-hostile as a complete stranger’s wireless webcam mounted in your bedroom or bathroom.
I am liking what I am seeing, and will gladly use this once it has a traditional login + TOTP 2FA.