bookmarking is such a lightweight task (like vpn), compute and storage wise, there is no reason to not self host it. many nice solutions out there, i personally use wallabag. its gets many things right.
Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
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Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#92I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed. https://savewithfolio.com/ Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices,…
Did you use flutter to write the app. Asking because the UI looks exactly the same on all platforms.
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#93I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed. https://savewithfolio.com/ Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices,…
Did you use flutter to write the app. Asking because the UI looks exactly the same on all platforms.
It's React Native which has been great. Still some work to do to make things really nice on large screens but overall a great experience.
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#94I’ve been working on my own Pocket replacement for the past few months. I was the head of product at Pocket in 2018/19, and ever since I left, I’ve had this itch to build my own version. Mozilla shutting it down finally gave me the excuse I needed. https://savewithfolio.com/ Folio lets you save articles from anywhere, has a lovely reading view, lets you listen to articles with some really nice text-to-speech voices,…
It would help if you posted some UI images for the web app so I could have a look without having to signup
Thanks, good feedback!
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#95bookmarking is such a lightweight task (like vpn), compute and storage wise, there is no reason to not self host it. many nice solutions out there, i personally use wallabag. its gets many things right.
The reason is universal - usability isn't a function of the weight of compute.
For example, wallabag on iOS fails at such basics as... syncing
https://github.com/wallabag/ios-app/issues/185#issuecomment-...
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#96https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ and a "well-organized filesystem". I'm just kidding, "they're everywhere!". Still, it's what I use.
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#97If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but don’t select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then shove that in iCloud Drive or on your phone and read it later. No services or set up involved, works reliably and you can keep the PDF forever.
PDF is almost a non-digital format, so awful reading experience on devices with different screen sizes, no good content search or even basic copy&paste. And you get no tagging in this scheme. So a major downgrade.
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#98> But nothing came out of my research. Seriously? I call bullshit. Type "pocket alternative" into your favorite search engine and you'll find a bunch of sites that recommend a few good alternatives. This is a pretty good question for reddit.com/r/selfhosted as opposed to hn, and it's well covered there. https://openalternative.co/alternatives/pocket has a good list https://github.com/search?q=bookmark+&type=repositor…
> Type "pocket alternative" into your favorite search engine and you'll find a bunch of sites that recommend a few good alternatives.
Now our turn to call bs. There is no single result at the first few pages of your "favorite search engine" results that would give you a comprehensive comparison to Pocket, so you'll have to waste time with a few services to uncover how they fail at something basic Pocket has.
And all these "alternatives" lists you cite are very primitive that won't help you uncover such issues
> mostly because my pocket list is pretty much dump and forget
Ok, but you know that some people actually want to use the service to, you know, read later instead of forgetting?
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#99I moved to https://raindrop.io/ . Imported all the Pocket stuff with no issues, free plan is enough for me.
Yup. Same. I hope they're making enough money to keep the lights on and don't over expand or sellout.
Re: Ask HN: What Pocket alternatives did you move to?
#100If you have an iPhone, just use reader view, then print it but don’t select a printer and then share it. A PDF pops out. Then shove that in iCloud Drive or on your phone and read it later. No services or set up involved, works reliably and you can keep the PDF forever.
PDF is almost a non-digital format, so awful reading experience on devices with different screen sizes, no good content search or even basic copy&paste. And you get no tagging in this scheme. So a major downgrade.
Apart from the device size issue this is untrue.