daniel31x13

thanks!

> I am usually against shameless self promotion

me too, but i actually thought it might be useful for anybody in the thread since they can self-host it for free.

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Maintainer of Linkwarden[1] since 2023, an open-source bookmark manager with a paid Cloud tier (20k+ GitHub stars, 25M+ Docker pulls). I own product, design, web, mobile, infrastructure and support end-to-end.

Looking to join small to mid-sized tech companies as a founding product manager, product engineer, full-stack engineer, or similar role.

[1]: https://linkwarden.app

this is why i built linkwarden: https://linkwarden.app

(p.s. it's open source!)

Reminds me of a post[1] by Sam Altman in 2024:

> movies are going to become video games and video games are going to become something unimaginably better

Sometimes I really wanna skip 10 years into the future and see where all this eventually leads.

[1]: https://x.com/sama/status/1776083954786836979

> Instead of picking what we want to see we let other people decide what is supposed to be good for us.

100% agree, and this is exactly why I disable any sort of algorithmic recommendations on the platforms I’m active on. I do this either through the app itself or by using those platforms on the web and hiding distracting elements with an extension like uBlock or AdGuard.

My final feed consists only of channels/profiles I directly follow. Oh, and there’s also RSS…

I really recommend everyone do the same. It really clears your head.

Thanks! At the moment we’re focused on archiving rather than read-later workflows, but this is great feedback. I’ve already added it to the feature requests list.

> Does it just POST the url to them for them to fetch?

Correct.

I maintain an open-source project called Linkwarden and this exact discussion is one of the reasons why it exists, teams needed a way to preserve referenced URLs reliably without having to depend on external services.

It stores webpages in multiple formats (HTML snapshot, screenshot, PDF snapshot, and a fully dedicated reader view) so you’re not relying on a single fragile archive method.

There’s both a hosted cloud plan [1] which directly supports the project, and a fully self-hosted option [2], depending on how much control you need over storage and retention.

[1]: https://linkwarden.app

[2]: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden

If you review the project’s history, you’ll notice that Linkwarden was started well before the vibe-coding hype, and even before the existence of ChatGPT.

Sad to see Pocket shutting down. For anyone seeking alternatives, I've been working on Linkwarden[1], an open-source bookmark manager that hit HN's front page twice[2][3]. Plenty of other great alternatives out there too, such as Raindrop (not fully open-source), Karakeep, and Wallabag.

Also, there's an official Linkwarden mobile app in development, aiming to support most (if not all) of Pocket's key features :)

[1]: https://linkwarden.app

[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36942308

[3]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43856801

Definitely! :)

Yes, you can import any kind of bookmarks html files.

There are also other importing formats we do support as well like Wallabag, Omnivore, etc…

> Does the web front end support themes?

Yes[1].

> Does it have an API that would allow development of a native desktop front end?

Also yes[2].

[1]: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.9#-customizable-theme

[2]: https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction

Mostly the UX it provides. PWAs are a quick and easy way to support mobile but the UX is nowhere near as good a traditional mobile app…

> How difficult would it be to import an existing list of links/tags?

Pretty easy if you have it in a bookmark html file format.

> Also, if I were using a hosted version, would I be able to eg insert/retrieve files via an API call?

Yup, check out the api documentation:

https://docs.linkwarden.app/api/api-introduction

> There aren't any examples in the demo site of this

This is because we haven't updated the demo to the latest version.

> but can it capture the highlighted text snippets and show them in the link details page?

That's a good idea that we might implement later, but at the moment you can only highlight the links[1].

[1]: https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.10#%EF%B8%8F-text-hig...

We’re working on an official mobile app[1], which will most likely include this feature sometime after its launch :)

[1]: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden/issues/246#issuecom...

We might add this, it's actually highly suggested by the users :)

You can do that already:

https://blog.linkwarden.app/releases/2.8#%EF%B8%8F-customiza...

So there are different ways it archives a webpage.

It currently stores the full webpages as a single html file, a screenshot, a pdf, a read-it-later view.

Aside from that, you can also send the webpages to the Wayback Machine to take a snapshot.

To archive pages behind a login or paywall, you can use the browser extension, which captures an image of the webpage in the browser and sends it to the server.

Thanks! A lightweight model like the phi3:mini-4k is enough for this feature.[1]

It’s worth mentioning that you can also use external providers like OpenAI and Anthropic to tag the links for you.

[1]: https://docs.linkwarden.app/self-hosting/ai-worker

Hello everyone, I’m the main developer behind Linkwarden. Glad to see it getting some attention here!

Some key features of the app (at the moment):

- Text highlighting

- Full page archival

- Full content search

- Optional local AI tagging

- Sync with browser (using Floccus)

- Collaborative

Also, for anyone wondering, all features from the cloud plan are available to self-hosted users :)

> Research shows 25% of web pages posted between 2013 and 2023 have vanished.

I’ve been personally working on a project over the past year which addresses the exact issue: https://linkwarden.app

An open-source [1] bookmarking tool to collect, organize and preserve contents on the internet.

[1]: https://github.com/linkwarden/linkwarden