HN Buffer
A read-it-later site for your HN favorites
Details
- External ID
- 46018210
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- HN Buffer
- Website domain
- hnbuffer.com
- Launched
- Nov. 22, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.0982532751091703
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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!
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- read-it-later service for hacker news
- Manually corrected
- False
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.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 22 days after the earliest competitor.
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