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mahmoudalwadiaon Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying

glad to hear, enjoy!

mahmoudalwadiaon Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying

thanks, hope it sticks for you.

mahmoudalwadiaon Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying

thanks! Pocket loyalists are exactly who I built this for.

mahmoudalwadiaon Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying

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.

mahmoudalwadiaon Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying

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.

mahmoudalwadiaon Show HN: Readit, a read-it-later app I built because the others keep dying

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