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Ask HN: Review my app, ReadMeLater.com

9 points by chip ↗ HN
Hi,

http://ReadMeLater.com is my mvp, weekend project. Basically it's an offline Instapaper for those who don't own a iphone/ipad.

I'm a big fan of Instapaper, but don't own a iphone/ipad and wanted the offline functionality. I put this together go I can save some articles for reading on the plane.

Also it gave me an excuse to play around with some HTML5.

Would love some feedback/testing from the HN community. (note: it should work on the iphone/ipad)

Thanks!

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mijoro
Awesome, I was thinking of making something like this, so glad that you already got onto it. Nice work. Could we see a window with a frame like the Reddit comments window, where the list of bookmarks are on the left and the content is in the main window on the right?
chip
At the moment I wanted to keep it screen friendly for all devices and a left/right frame probably won't fit/look so great on an iphone for example. Maybe I can add some custom view options depending on the device you're using.

Thanks for the suggestion and comments!

marcamillion
Hey chip, I am doing a podcast about various ideas/projects/stuff that HN members are working on.

Interested in being on one of the episodes?

I put up the first episode and am pivoting based on the feedback I got from the HN community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1379942

If you are interested, email me: marc {at} ideatin {dot} com

chip
Sure thing, email sent.
marcamillion
This looks interesting, I would definitely use the bookmarklet, because it sucks to have a page always open.

I would have hoped that the original page (including images and stylesheet) were saved locally. Otherwise, this is like an RSS reader, and I am not a big fan of RSS readers for that very same reason.

Just my $0.02.

P.S. Prettifying the landing page would go a long way :)

chip
All the html, images, css, and js files are saved locally using HTML5's cache.manifest so everything should load while offline. It is for me at least. What browser version are you using?

Yes, making it pretty is on the todo list.

Thanks for the feedback.

chip
Double checked, looks like I wasn't serving the cache.manifest file correctly. Should be fixed now. Try again. Nice catch.
marcamillion
Hrmm....it kind of works. The issue I am having now, is that on the page I tried it only does part of the page.

http://52weeksofux.com/tagged/week_1

I tried to capture that page, and it only captured the bottom story - not the top.

I never checked the source or anything, so it could very well be something about that specific site.

That was just the first site I tried, and that's what I found.

Hope that helps :)

TTDaVeTT
How is this different than http://www.instapaper.com/?
chip
Instapaper does not provide offline functionality except through their iphone app.

ReadMeLater allows any device with a browser that supports HTML5 to provide offline functionality.