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Hello!I’ve been reading Hacker News for years and have a bad habit of favoriting articles but never actually going back to read them. I finally built hnbuffer to scratch my own itch and help me work through that backlog. I also mainly built this as an excuse to learn/use some of the languages/frameworks/tools since I have another backlog of things I wanted to try too.It syncs your favorites into a queue with a reader mode and swipe gestures. The streak tracking is something I'm still experimenting with.Note: It requires an HN login to scrape the favorites list (credentials are client-side only, not stored).Let me know what you think!
HN · launched Nov 22, 2025 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: bookmark managers · 142 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -69% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward CRUD web application that syncs public HN favorites using the Firebase/Algolia HN API into a reading list.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #200 of 204 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 22 days after the earliest competitor.
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