Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017?

Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by bharani_m on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:25AM (#13300533)

Simple "email this link to me" service.

If I find something interesting, I want to be able to click a button (chrome extension/bookmarklet) that will extract the text from that page, format it nicely and email it to me (preferably to a separate Gmail label).

I can then read it from my email client (iOS/Android email app) during my commute.

I don't want the overhead of a complete app like Evernote or Pocket.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by herbst on Monday January 02, 2017 @06:28AM (#13300537)

This sounds like something i would use.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by mrgrowth on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:33AM (#13300788)

Second, that I would use this.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by rndstr on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:43AM (#13300838)

Google Inbox allows you to do exactly this by saving links in your inbox through a sharing intent on Android or a Chrome extension on desktop.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by richardboegli on Monday January 02, 2017 @03:39PM (#13304290)

Is this an extra intent that you have to install separately? I just installed inbox again and couldn't see it.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by akg_67 on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:35AM (#13300796)

Sounds similar to Safari in Reader mode on Mac.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by madmax108 on Monday January 02, 2017 @02:07PM (#13303520)

How is this any different from Pocket? Yes, it's a third party app instead of email, but does exactly what you need.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by richardboegli on Monday January 02, 2017 @07:37AM (#13300805)

I'm working on something like this at the moment, but it's on hold while I finish something else.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by sangupta on Wednesday January 04, 2017 @10:53AM (#13319249)

Loved this idea - started building such a service as my first side-project for 2017.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by Havoc on Monday January 02, 2017 @08:52AM (#13301135)

Readability does that - well sorta. It sends it to your Kindle.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by angrydev on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:02AM (#13301459)

Readability is no longer available.

See https://www.readability.com/

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by Havoc on Monday January 02, 2017 @10:22AM (#13301584)

Damn that sucks. Pity - used to work well.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your side project for 2017? by haraball on Monday January 02, 2017 @12:21PM (#13302578)

Instapaper and its app does this, been using it for many years now.

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