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A Chrome extension to save snippets online

A Chrome extension to save snippets online

by the_law·Mar 24, 2026·1 point·0 comments
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AI Analysis

●●SolidCozyShip It

Self-hosted origins show craft, but Hypothesis already does social annotations.

Strengths
  • •Self-hosted Docker origin shows real technical depth behind the extension
  • •Friend-based snippet discovery adds social layer missing from basic bookmarkers
  • •Chrome extension + web app sync works without requiring email verification
Weaknesses
  • •No email verification is a privacy risk disguised as convenience feature
  • •Hypothesis.is and Readwise Reader already solve this with better infrastructure
Category
Productivity
Target Audience

Researchers, students, content curators

Similar To

Hypothesis.is · Diigo · Readwise Reader

Post Description

Hi HN!

A while back I made a post talking about a Chrome extension I had bootstrapped. At the time it could only be self-hosted and run locally with docker. In order to make it more accessible, I’ve taken the steps to deploy the web app and submit the extension to the chrome store!

Hopefully you’ll find collecting snippets from online articles as fun as I do. I haven’t enabled email verification for now so you don’t even have to use a real email to create your account.

I added a primitive networking feature so you can add your friends by their username and see what they've saved recently!

It’s more or less a passion project/useless tech, and probably has a few bugs, but it exists! Please let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback.

Of course I have endless ideas to expand it (friend list view, toggle the highlighting of popular snippets (or saved by friends) on websites, Youtube integration: video snippets, private snippets) but I'm helplessly pulled forwards to my next silly idea.

Thanks for reading!

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