Rdltr
Inbox zero for your reading list
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Hi HN, for the past few months I’ve been working on a read later app called RDLTR (https://rdltr.app). The whole thing started because I had so many tabs open with stuff I wanted to read, across browsers, Mac, Linux, and iPhone. They cluttered everything and got in the way of other things I had to do.Pocket had just shut down when this idea came up, I looked around, tried Instapaper, Raindrop, Matter, and a few others I forget. They were fine, but they all give you a list that only grows, which is another thing to maintain, and not the model I had in mind. Safari has this Reading List feature where you read something and it drops off the unread list. But it’s Apple only and half worked. What I wanted was inbox zero for reading. Open something, read it, come back, and it’s gone from the queue but still in the archive. You keep going until there is nothing left.Links come in from anywhere. Paste a URL on the page, drag one in, or use the bookmarklet, the Chrome and Firefox extensions, or the Apple Shortcut for the iOS share sheet, plus Vim keys, TL;DR summaries on each link, search across everything you have read or saved, RSS for every list, and it works just as well on the phone.The extensions have a couple of tricks that I use all the time. Shift+DD pulls the article text, cleans it up, and sends it to ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini in a new tab, so you can ask it anything about what you just read. Shift+AA opens it in the Internet Archive, handy for paywalled sites when you don’t have a subscription.The stack is Bun, TypeScript, HTMX, and SQLite, with SSE so the list updates the moment you save or read something, deployed on a Hetzner VPS.Full disclosure, Claude Code wrote most of it. I still spent a ton of time dogfooding, testing, and polishing the UI until things felt right.Anyway, curious to know what your current setup is for this.
HN · launched Sep 9, 2026 · 24 upvotes (top 24%) · 0 views
Niche: digital publishing and reading platforms · 122 launches, 8 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a conventional read-it-later application combining article content extraction, an LLM summarization prompt, and keyboard-driven UI navigation.
Discussion
17 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Rawuser - personalized landing pages based on visitor source
Concerns raised: Article text sent to external AI service without preview/confirmation, Privacy risk for internal or private pages shared externally, No data loss guarantee or backup mechanism, Infinite scroll prevents footer visibility
Feature requests: Newsletter integration to custom rdltr email, Cloud storage sync or manual export functionality, Better surfacing of archived content discovery per user, User setting for controlling newsletter behavior, Fix infinite scroll to show footer
Competitors
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Attention rank: #37 of 112 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 313 days after the earliest competitor.
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