RDLTR Read-Later App Targets Inbox Zero for Saved Articles
A developer released RDLTR, a read-later app that clears articles from an unread queue once they are opened while keeping them archived, in a Show HN post on Hacker News dated 9 September 2026.
The developer wrote that the project grew out of unread tabs spread across browsers on a Mac, a Linux machine and an iPhone, which cluttered the screen and got in the way of other work. Work on the idea began after Pocket shut down. The author tried Instapaper, Raindrop, Matter and several other services whose names were not recalled, describing them as fine but as handing users a list that only grows, which becomes another thing to maintain.
Safari's Reading List, where a read item drops off the unread list, came closer to the intended model, but the developer said the feature is Apple-only and "half worked."
Links enter RDLTR by pasting a URL into the page, dragging one in, using a bookmarklet, installing Chrome or Firefox extensions, or adding an Apple Shortcut to the iOS share sheet. The app offers Vim key bindings, TL;DR summaries on each link, search across everything saved or read, and RSS feeds for every list, and the developer said it works as well on a phone as on a desktop.
Two extension shortcuts were singled out in the post. Shift+DD pulls the text of an article, cleans it up and sends it to ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini in a new tab so the reader can ask the model questions about the material. Shift+AA opens the page in the Internet Archive, which the developer described as handy for paywalled sites when there is no subscription.
The software is built on Bun, TypeScript, HTMX and SQLite, with server-sent events updating the list the moment something is saved or read, and is deployed on a Hetzner VPS. The developer stated that Claude Code wrote most of the code and that substantial time went into dogfooding, testing and polishing the interface until it felt right.
The Show HN post had drawn 3 points and no comments at the time of publication. It closed by asking readers what their current setup is for saving articles.
Editor's Summary
RDLTR is a new read-later app that removes items from an unread queue once they are opened and keeps them in an archive, with browser extensions, iOS share-sheet support and shortcuts for sending articles to AI models or the Internet Archive. It was announced in a Show HN post on Hacker News dated 9 September 2026 and is built on Bun, TypeScript, HTMX and SQLite. The app positions itself against Instapaper, Raindrop and Matter, whose lists its author says only grow.