Seems offering nothing better than Pocket. Pocket is multiplatform and integrated in Firefox.
It seems to offer reminders (at time and place) to read unread articles, which is pretty cool.
Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later
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#52Hi Fedor, it looks good, and I'm going to evaluate it soon! Could you please tell why it's free and if it's going to be a paid app soon? If yes, what would be the pricing model? If not, what is the monetization strategy for the app if you don't sell customer data? Thanks.
It's free-mium with a Premium plan that includes some pro features if the generous free plan is not enough :)
Is this tongue-and-cheek? Seems like you are creating value for people and should be compensated. Or is there some monetization of user data?
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#53Sorry 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
It’s really nicely done on the whole!
My feeling is that there is just a bit too much motion happening at once. I think the issue is that as you scroll (I’m on an iPhone) your eye is drawn to the content that has just scrolled into view but the content below then starts to animate too early, so you’re distracted by the motion happening below the content that you’re trying to read.
This happens multiple times (for each content block…)
I think you probably just need to delay the start of the next animation until you’ve scrolled down a bit further, and perhaps even reduce the amount of movement? It doesn’t need much motion to still give that dynamic feel.
It’s so close to being quite an awesome landing page otherwise!
Edit: also while we’re all here playing backseat designer…. The first animation of the iPhone showing some sort of archiving sequence seems to run too early for me - I don’t really understand what it’s demonstrating. By the time I’ve scrolled the iPhone into view, the archive overlay has already popped out and I didn’t get chance to see what the screen before that was showing. So it’s slightly confusing (though it looks nice!)
Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later
#54Seems offering nothing better than Pocket. Pocket is multiplatform and integrated in Firefox.
Ex-Pocket users that have since moved to Alfread would disagree with you :)
Re: Show HN: We built an app for reading articles saved for later
#55Seems offering nothing better than Pocket. Pocket is multiplatform and integrated in Firefox.
It seems to offer reminders (at time and place) to read unread articles, which is pretty cool.
And a pretty cool Tinder-like interface, stats, streaks, sorting options (including shuffle) and much more!
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
It’s really nicely done on the whole! My feeling is that there is just a bit too much motion happening at once. I think the issue is that as you scroll (I’m on an iPhone) your eye is drawn to the content that has just scrolled into view but the content below then starts to animate too early, so you’re distracted by the motion happening below the content that you’re trying to read. This happens multiple times (for eac…
Thanks a lot for such a detailed reply! I agree with a lot of your feedback but I’m limited by Readymag which I used to create the site which doesn’t allow me to set animations quite right but I’ll try again :)
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
Alfread looks great, congrats. I'm going to give it a spin, but I would desperately need a web app to go with the iOS one. I usually just open a myriad tabs on my computers and my phone and hope I recall there was something I meant to read later. Doesn't work too well. Google Keep comes close, but the UX doesn't really do it for me. What I'd love it a simple (think HN) interface where I can scroll through article tit…
Thank you!
We do have a list of articles to scroll through on the Search tab :)
Seamless saving is on our mind but have to rely on Instapaper/Pocket for saving on the desktop
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#58Kudos guys, love the clean design
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#59For anyone else looking for the privacy policy https://alfread.notion.site/Alfread-Privacy-Policy-5e67f4f92...
Thanks for sharing! Did anything stand out to you? To be honest, we did it last second but basically we don’t have accounts, don’t store any personal information, and everything stays on your device
I didn't see it on your website, but I eventually found it using the App Store instead. Other than that, very clear.
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#60Years ago, I created a file text file (unimaginatively named `links.txt`). In it I save links to articles to read later, along with a subject. I have categories in the file.
I fixed my text editor to be able to open a browser on a link I click.
I don't really know what else is necessary.
[I quit using browser bookmarks because 1) it cannot be backed up 2) does not survive reinstalling the browser 3) does not move to other machines 4) cannot add a text description 5) cannot categorize them 6) cannot print them.]