Readr

A read-later app that gives the five items on your desk room to matter.

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Overview

Readr helps you choose what deserves your attention. Its Desk holds five active items, the Inbox holds future reads, and the Library keeps what you finish.

Product

Readr in light mode with an empty desk, an inbox video, and two finished videos in the library — The Desk, Inbox, and Library make each item's place clear.

Save a link in the app or with the browser extension. New items go to the Inbox first; you choose which five move to the Desk.

Readr article reader showing a connectomics article with reading time and extracted article content — The article reader keeps the source in a clear, focused layout.

Articles open in a focused reader. YouTube videos pair a player with a timestamped transcript that follows playback when captions are available.

Readr YouTube reader showing Write-Ahead Logs with a video player and transcript — Video and transcript stay together.

Readr YouTube reader with the current transcript passage highlighted during playback — The transcript follows the current passage.

Build

I led product direction, design, and development across the app, browser extension, and backend. The stack is React, TypeScript, and Vite, with Hono, Cloudflare Workers, and D1.

Readr saves a link before enriching its metadata, so a source failure does not lose the capture. Article extraction and transcript loading can fail independently of the saved item.