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Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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Sorry if this is a bit off-topic but for me the website is overwhelming. Everything is very large and animated which makes me dizzy. I don't know what is happening when I scroll.

It is on-topic :) Thanks for saying that, I felt a bit like that when designing it but the feedback we’ve gotten so far was really positive. Might consider something less in a good sense overwhelming for the next version

Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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I think this could be very useful, any plans for Android or web app?

Also maybe a nice to have feature would be to group similar articles by theme so that when I sit down to read one article I can read all articles around the same theme while I'm still focused.

Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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Sorry if this is a bit off-topic but for me the website is overwhelming. Everything is very large and animated which makes me dizzy. I don't know what is happening when I scroll.

It is on-topic :) Thanks for saying that, I felt a bit like that when designing it but the feedback we’ve gotten so far was really positive. Might consider something less in a good sense overwhelming for the next version

While this isn't for me as I don't use iOS daily, I wanted to say that I'm impressed with your response to feedback.

And, for what it's worth, I saw the landing page on desktop and it felt nicely done, and the animations had a purpose.

Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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They don’t allow it in their TOS or App Store guidelines? Desktop Safari supports bookmark (& reading list) export via an HTML file on the off chance you’re not aware, and it isn’t banned.

We might be talking about different things: one off export is possible like you mentioned but no way to sync saved links to the reading list continuously as there’re no API’s for that from Apple

On Desktop Safari the reading list is stored in a Bookmarks plist file you can grab and filter out Reading List items from, might be worth having some little desktop util for a 1 time sync to move people onto your platform? It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing.

Here is an example with some code showing how someone did it so they could upload it to Pinboard: https://brettterpstra.com/2015/01/06/reading-list-catcher/

Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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Really interesting idea! Would love to try it out when it's available for Android (or Web)

Second this. I have a lot of stuff I save for later and just don't get around to reading, been looking for a solution.

Have you found/tried any?

Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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We might be talking about different things: one off export is possible like you mentioned but no way to sync saved links to the reading list continuously as there’re no API’s for that from Apple

On Desktop Safari the reading list is stored in a Bookmarks plist file you can grab and filter out Reading List items from, might be worth having some little desktop util for a 1 time sync to move people onto your platform? It's not ideal, but it's better than nothing. Here is an example with some code showing how someone did it so they could upload it to Pinboard: https://brettterpstra.com/2015/01/06/reading-list-ca…

Ah, could be good actually. Definitely better than nothing, thanks for finding that link, appreciate it

Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later

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post #22

I think this could be very useful, any plans for Android or web app? Also maybe a nice to have feature would be to group similar articles by theme so that when I sit down to read one article I can read all articles around the same theme while I'm still focused.

One day :) We’re a 2-person team with 1 dev, so resources are quite limited, but hope to get there.

Great suggestion! We have auto-tags for that right now, but of course it’s not perfect yet. But could be nice to suggest similar ones at the end of the one I just read, like you suggested

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