This is an inherent value trap that’s really not sustainable for VC backed startups. Which will inevitably burn to the ground as the revenue dwindles. Pocket, Omnivore, Upnext, your next favorite server based read-later app. One of the reason I believe is the market is saturated with undifferentiated apps that’s all free.

While I think self-hosting is great, you probably want to solve mobile capturing and consumption, hosting a server, then paring a modern maintained mobile app that you can configure so it connects to your self-hosted server. Omnivore maybe your best shot? Although maybe vibe code may get you there sooner?

If you are on Apple ecosystem though, there is another self-sustainable way that doesn’t require you to host anything on your VPS, that works with mobile, which is iCloud/Cloudkit based apps.

There are at least a dozen options here. I made one of these:

- no account, no server, no tracking

- Liquid Glass Mac app that launch from menu bar.

- Separate iOS app purposefully designed for mobile

- Doesn’t use a browser extension, but monitors double copies from clipboard.

- Shows all the cards in a waterfall grid, so you don’t have to click into these cards to see what the link is about. Every website you use, from TikTok to GoodReads, will show up as well designed cards.

- Uses Apple Intelligence on device to auto-tag links.

- free to capture without limit, has a one time purchase option (that removes the sub nudge) as well as affordable subscription option with PPP in 10 territories (purchase power parity pricing).

I believe it’s the sweet spot in this category, and with the subscription revenue we have, it will never shutdown as long as Apple still offers iCloud, plus, you own the binary.

It’s at https://doublememory.com if this sounds interesting to you.

Hm, leveraging CloudKit is smart. I am fully assimilated into the Apple world.

I'm a little wary of something watching my clipboard, honestly. A lot of passwords and sensitive information goes through there.

Drag-and-drop into a menu bar icon is super clever though.

Well done. It might be a little more than I need, but I'm cheering you on nonetheless.

One way to reframe the question is to ask: why social media took over and what RSS can do to catch up?

I got a theory but curious about others thoughts.

My theory is barrier to entry, network density, lurker effect, UX, dopamine and attention economy loop, content recommendation etc all fell behind.

One hint is how TikTok’s old parent company started as a content aggregator and still runs one of the biggest one in china called Toutiao.

Also plug my tiny contribution to fix the inconsistent reading experience of rss ready blogs without installing an app: https://feedable.doublememory.com

Forgot to mention it supports podcast feeds as well if you are looking for something that's more consistent.

And I've also previously done a retro podcast player that's also great for that specific purpose: https://retropod.lovable.app/

Https://DoubleMemory.com: an Apple only (Mac and iOS) external memory and bookmarking app. Hoping to add auto tagging to it with apple’s foundation model framework.

Thinking about building an arena like product discovery platform to help people finding the perfect app for them… like a bookmarking app…

Like KaraKeep?

I plan to add shortcuts support so hopefully that will allow people to integrate. And also as the foundation for the next-gen Siri and MCP support. But I’d love to hear your workflow to find out what you have in mind. Please email at hi@doublememory.com or find us on discord or social. Let’s jam!

I’m actually not a clipboard manager user before. That’s why I wanted to avoid saving everything into its history. I wanted everything in DoubleMemory to be deliberately curated. That’s also why I’m hesitate to support other feed like features like email subscriptions or RSS feeds.

But yes Maccy is great, DM’s first version looks very much like a list of snippets on menu bar and then a list of snippets with a preview on the side, eventually evolved to its current form.

Thanks for trying and finding a spot for it in your workflow!

Notion and Obsidian are great, I use them weekly too. But I don't think bookmarking should live in an text editor. It can still work, just like Apple Notes can also for people with limited needs, but it doesn't do: quick search/filter/ordering, rich previews (these cards are not DoubleMemory cards imo), immersive reader, archive/notes, keyboard navigation... Pocket also don't have these, so Notion/Obsidian may not be much a downgrade, if your needs are simple, it's totally respectable way to organize your content, especially if your workflow is already centered around these.

Except we don't have any AI features yet although that's definitely part of the plan. :D

I'd recommend asking in the r/macapps subreddit for my diverse answers. Here are two of my picks:

- Raycast has a really nice AI feature.

- Aura by Meng To is one of my favorite LLM chat tool with a special prompt builder: https://aurachat.io/

i agree. Tim, waiting for your call here. you can find my number when you deposit the $10 i made this month.

well, it's not me choosing it, i'm just tapping into the system clipboard. If you right click and copy something twice it will also be auto saved. I do this instinctively previously so one day I thought can I actually use this as a signal to REALLY remember something...