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25 pointsbdotdub16 comments

Hey HN,

Just thought I'd show you guys something that I quickly threw together this weekend.

It's a webapp that for websites that suck on your iPhone/Android/mobile phone. Later Locker lets you email a link to the webpage to an email address and have it automatically appear on your computer. Sites like the http://nytimes.com or http://newegg.com are kind of annoying to view in your mobile browser. So, you send a link to the webpage from your phone and automatically appears on your desktop!

Still really rough, but would love any feedback/suggestions you guys have!

Using mailgun for parsing!

- Benny

Have you thought about using a bookmarklet instead of e-mail on the phone?

I've thought about it, but bookmarklets on the iPhone (not sure about android) is exceedingly annoying. Marco Arment (Instapaper founder) wrote about his experience here: http://www.marco.org/2010/10/10/an-open-enhancement-request-...

I built something similar a while back (http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ if you're curious), for iOS I found that the easiest way to set up bookmarklets is to add them on the desktop (Safari or IE) and then sync to the phone. At the time bookmarklets didn't work on Android so we ended up making a native app (I think you have to register for the "share text" intent, it's been a while).

Whoa, that looks awesome (and really good looking). Thanks for the tip :)

Open source alternative for Android/Chrome: http://www.2cloudproject.com/

The experience is really nice because it uses the native Android 'share link' dialogue.

I'm a bit confused. By "magically appears on my computer", do you mean "open email and click link to open webpage in browser"? Or does it actually just open right away, somehow?

If you keep the webpage open (extension to come), it'll open the link that you sent to the service. It'll be there waiting for you when you get back to your computer

See my reply to derek

Gotcha. So what happens if I don't have the webpage open on my desktop, or if I send multiple links?

It just queues up on the website, and thus no magic :(

This is awesome! A simple idea, wonderfully executed. Couple of features I'd like to see: * An RSS/Atom/whatever feed of the articles, so they show up in my feed reader/Calibre * The exact same thing in reverse; Often, I'd just like to boil the text off a web page and read it on my phone on the morning/evening train commute. This possibly changes the scope of your weekend hack to something a lot more complex..

Thanks gnok!

Indeed, an RSS feed would be cool. In the queue ;)

The reverse is solved by Instapaper or ReadItLater. This is the reverse of those apps :)

I'd really like push support to the app, like the Handoff app, but in reverse. http://www.handoffapp.com/

There is! (if I understand correctly)

It's hacky, but if you keep the webpage open, any links you send from your mobile will "push" (technically, it pulls) to your browser!

The font of the headers looks a bit jagged for me for some reason. Not sure why but it really stands out. You may want to look into that.

Been talking with @handoffapp about this and they say they're working on the same problem. Nice to have something in the wild though.

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