A self-hostable bookmark-everything app with a touch of AI for the data hoarders out there.
- 🔗 Bookmark links, take simple notes and store images.
- ⬇️ Automatic fetching for link titles, descriptions and images.
- 📋 Sort your bookmarks into lists.
- 🔎 Full text search of all the content stored.
- ✨ AI-based (aka chatgpt) automatic tagging. With supports for local models using ollama!
- 🔖 Chrome plugin and Firefox addon for quick bookmarking.
- 📱 An iOS app, and an Android app.
- 🌙 Dark mode support (web only so far).
- 💾 Self-hosting first.
- [Planned] Downloading the content for offline reading.
You can access the demo at https://try.hoarder.app. Login with the following creds:
email: demo@hoarder.app
password: demodemo
The demo is seeded with some content, but it's in read-only mode to prevent abuse.
- NextJS for the web app. Using app router.
- Drizzle for the database and its migrations.
- NextAuth for authentication.
- tRPC for client->server communication.
- Puppeteer for crawling the bookmarks.
- OpenAI because AI is so hot right now.
- BullMQ for scheduling the background jobs.
- Meilisearch for the full content search.
I browse reddit, twitter and hackernews a lot from my phone. I frequently find interesting stuff (articles, tools, etc) that I'd like to bookmark and read later when I'm in front of a laptop. Typical read-it-later apps usecase. Initially, I was using Pocket for that. Then I got into self-hosting and I wanted to self-host this usecase. I used memos for those quick notes and I loved it but it was lacking some features that I found important for that usecase such as link previews and automatic tagging (more on that in the next section).
I'm a systems engineer in my day job (and have been for the past 7 years). I didn't want to get too detached from the web development world. I decided to build this app as a way to keep my hand dirty with web development, and at the same time, build something that I care about and use every day.
- memos: I love memos. I have it running on my home server and it's one of my most used self-hosted apps. It doesn't, however, archive or preview the links shared in it. It's just that I dump a lot of links there and I'd have loved if I'd be able to figure which link is that by just looking at my timeline. Also, given the variety of things I dump there, I'd have loved if it does some sort of automatic tagging for what I save there. This is exactly the usecase that I'm trying to tackle with Hoarder.
- mymind: Mymind is the closest alternative to this project and from where I drew a lot of inspirations. It's a commercial product though.
- raindrop: A polished open source bookmark manager that supports links, images and files. It's not self-hostable though.
- Bookmark managers (mostly focused on bookmarking links):
- Pocket: Pocket is what hooked me into the whole idea of read-it-later apps. I used it a lot. However, I recently got into home-labbing and became obsessed with the idea of running my services in my home server. Hoarder is meant to be a self-hosting first app.
- Linkwarden: An open-source self-hostable bookmark manager that I ran for a bit in my homelab. It's focused mostly on links and supports collaborative collections.
- Omnivore: Omnivore is pretty cool open source read-it-later app. Unfortunately, it's heavily dependent on google cloud infra which makes self-hosting it quite hard. They published a blog post on how to run a minimal omnivore but it was lacking a lot of stuff. Self-hosting doesn't really seem to be a high priority for them, and that's something I care about, so I decided to build an alternative.
- Wallabag: Wallabag is a well-established open source read-it-later app written in php and I think it's the common recommendation on reddit for such apps. To be honest, I didn't give it a real shot, and the UI just felt a bit dated for my liking. Honestly, it's probably much more stable and feature complete than this app, but where's the fun in that?
- Shiori: Shiori is meant to be an open source pocket clone written in Go. It ticks all the marks but doesn't have my super sophisticated AI-based tagging. (JK, I only found about it after I decided to build my own app, so here we are 🤷).
