Cozy Reader

A secure place for the articles that you want to read 🔒📑

3 followers

A secure place for the articles that you want to read 🔒📑

3 followers

Cozy Reader removes all the noise from the web articles that you want to read. It uses BlockStack to (forever) save all the articles; everythins is encrypted by default and accessible only by you. Nobody will see what are you reading and sell the data 🙅‍♀️👀

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Cozy Reader

Maker

Hey Hunters! 👋 This is my first application using Blockstack and the Gaia Storage. I wanted to create my read it later service for a long time, and finally this month I took some extra days to launch it 🚀 Cozy permits to: - save all the web articles that you want to read, access them later and read them whenever you want - have a permanent and private copy of the article: Blockstack saves the article on a decentralized and encrypted storage (Gaia), so even if the website deletes the article you will always have a copy. - choose your theme! 💅 You can change the background color, the font size and the line width. More customizations will follow in the next weeks ✨ - add a Firefox addon or a bookmarklet to add the articles directly from the webpage. Chrome extension is coming soon. I learned so much from this simple project, like how to create a serverless API to parse the web pages and find the article, how to create a (not so simple) extension for Chrome and Firefox and how to comunicate and save data on Blockstack. It was a great moment of experience. What do you think? Hope you like it!

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7yr ago

Dapp.com

@urcoilbisurco Hey Francesco! Would you like to share Cozy Reader on Dapp.com?

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7yr ago

Cozy Reader

Maker

@jun_gong I'm going to share Cozy right now on dapp.com!

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7yr ago

Blinqo

Hey @urcoilbisurco, nice idea :) Do you know about Reader Mode? I saw it a few weeks ago. Nevertheless i think both of your products have unique features!

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7yr ago

Cozy Reader

Maker

@vlad_gritsenko1 Thanks! Yes, I'm using it everyday to read articles when I find articles and have time to read in the moment, but doesn't permit to save the article to read it later or to have a secure private copy like Cozy. As you said, both products have unique features and different markets :)

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7yr ago

Wunderpresentation

Well done, Francesco! I like (and started using) it. Thank you for this brilliant piece! I made some good experience with the Readability lib (same as implemented in Firefox) https://github.com/mozilla/reada.... Is this it what you're running in the background? Just curious.... Also curious: Any plan or next steps in mind with this project?

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7yr ago

Cozy Reader

Maker

@danielpichel thanks Daniel! I started using that library for the first prototype but I switched to mercury parser (https://github.com/postlight/mer...) for this version as it suited better my needs

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7yr ago

Google translate will be good new function, i think). Very cool product🎈 Thanks. Can I ask about your business model? Who is paid?

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6yr ago

@urcoilbisurco Great product Francesco. I've started using it and love the aesthetic. Two features that would be incredibly useful are 1. the ability to jot notes alongside saved articles. I'm in the medical field so appraising papers/articles, highlighting things to remember to teach med students etc is something I do all the time. That leads to the second feature which is the ability to search articles/notes so you can find things later down the line. It's a great initial product though!

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7yr ago

Cozy Reader

Maker

@shrawanpatel Hi Shrawan! The notes are already on the to-do list :) I haven't thought about the search feature, I will put it in the next possible features Thanks!

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7yr ago

Great stuff! Recently I've been trying to find a good alternative to Pocket which I find super annoying. I'll certainly use this! :)

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7yr ago

NovaSynth by Noveum

Awesome product. What do you use to parse the article? Some library or you call some API?

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7yr ago

Cozy Reader

Maker

@itsshashank I'm using mercury parser (https://github.com/postlight/mer...), called on a serverless function on netlify

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7yr ago

NovaSynth by Noveum

@urcoilbisurco Thanks for sharing.

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7yr ago

NovaSynth by Noveum

@urcoilbisurco Mercury parser doesn't parses medium articles properly. Try with this article: https://medium.com/flutterpub/fl... Your app is still pretty great, just letting u know.

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7yr ago