Finn VoorheesJan 13

🗑️ I've been working on a read later app over the last few years and it's getting closer to launch.

It archives every page you save so you never lose anything, and renders the original site beautifully. There's also a clean reader mode when you just want the content. Nested tags, auto-tagging, and shortcuts support for the automation nerds.

Sign up to be notified when it launches, I'll also be adding some people to the beta.

https://shelf-links.app/

Shelf: Save links, read later

A beautiful place for all your links. Save anything, find it later.

Show threadFinn VoorheesJan 22
Trying to avoid too many 3rd party deps on this project so I rolled my own waitlist with TestFlight management, feedback system, and lightweight analytics running on cloudflare. Also wrote a lightweight sqlite <-> cloudkit sync engine which makes everything 100x easier than trying to use SwiftData / CoreData
Show threadFinn VoorheesJan 22
I’ve always disliked how most read later apps lead with a reader mode that hides the styles of the original website. Shelf instead has a beautiful full screen web viewer with the content front and center. The status bar responds to the website and UI is minimal.
Show threadFinn VoorheesJan 22
That said, I know how much some people love reader mode so I've also added an elegant reader mode with a custom article parser loosely based on Obsidian's Web Clipper, with built in summaries. This gives much better results than Readability.js or Mercury, which most other apps seem to use.
Show threadJohn Lagomarsino
@finnvoorhees Did you use Defuddle? I also vibe coded a read-later app for myself over the summer and wound up using Readability, but I was curious how Defuddle would stack up.
Jan 22 at 7:38pmIvory for iOS