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tide

Self-hostable read-later — Pocket / Omnivore replacement.

Next.js 16 React 19 Drizzle pgvector BullMQ Anthropic SDK

tide

Self-hostable read-later · Next.js 16 + RSC + pgvector + Anthropic

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capture surface

→ paste url

article · building tide v12m read

extract…running
tag
embed
summarize

lighthouse 100·100·96·100streaming ai

Elevator pitch

Modern read-later that actually gets used. Save from anywhere (web, browser extension, share sheet, email, API), read in a clean RSC reader, get streaming AI summaries on demand. Self-hostable on Oracle Cloud Free.

What it is

A Next.js 16 read-later app filling the gap left by Pocket shutting down in March 2025 and Omnivore EOL-ing in November 2024. The only OSS option left was Wallabag, which feels like 2014.

Four capture surfaces:

Web — paste a URL, save (server action, optimistic ack)
Browser extension — Chrome + Firefox MV3, toolbar button + keyboard shortcut
iOS / Android share sheet — PWA Web Share Target API
Email — every user gets save+{uuid}@tide.example; Resend inbound webhook persists
API — bearer-token POST /api/v1/articles for shortcuts.app and power users

Why this exists

Personal itch. The current OSS options either died (Pocket, Omnivore) or feel abandoned (Wallabag). Nothing in 2026 matches the daily-driver UX of Pocket-at-its-peak with a modern stack underneath. Built it to replace what I lost.

Architecture

   web   extension   share sheet   email   api
    │       │             │          │       │
    └───────┴──────┬──────┴──────────┴───────┘
                   ▼
        ┌──────────────────────┐
        │  edge save endpoint  │  ← idempotent (user_id, url_hash)
        └──────────┬───────────┘
                   ▼
          ┌────────────────┐
          │   BullMQ jobs  │
          │  extract / embed
          │  tag / archive │
          └────────┬───────┘
                   ▼
        ┌──────────────────────┐
        │  postgres + pgvector │  ← fts + ann hybrid search
        └──────────┬───────────┘
                   ▼
     ┌─────────────┴─────────────┐
     ▼                           ▼
  RSC reader               streaming summary
  (typography +            (Anthropic +
   highlights +             Suspense
   listen mode)             boundary)

The save endpoint runs on edge runtime for low-latency global ingest. Heavy work (extraction via Mozilla Readability, embedding, tag inference) is enqueued to BullMQ workers. Reader is RSC with no client JS beyond the typography toggles + highlight gestures.

Key decisions

Better-Auth, not Clerk/NextAuth — OSS-pure, no vendor lock; magic link + GitHub + Google.
Drizzle, not Prisma — typed migrations, no ORM lock-in, faster cold-start on edge.
Postgres FTS + pgvector, not Algolia/Meilisearch — at under 100k articles per user, tsvector + trigram + ANN cosine is faster than a separate service hop.
Server Actions only — no /api REST routes for app traffic; mutations return typed Result<T, AppError>.
Anthropic Haiku 4.5 for summaries — fast, cheap, streams cleanly via Suspense.
Dual driver (postgres / sqlite) — solo self-host uses SQLite + local FS; teams use Postgres + R2/MinIO.
Oracle Cloud Always-Free for hosted demo — €0 hosting on Ampere A1 ARM + autonomous Postgres + 10GB object storage.

Numbers worth knowing


Commits	91 (2026-01-15 → 2026-06-08)
Lighthouse mobile	100 / 100 / 96 / 100 (perf / a11y / best-practices / SEO)
Lighthouse desktop	100 / 100 / 96 / 100
Extraction fixtures	10/10 pass (NYT, Substack, dev.to, Medium, Wikipedia, GitHub, BBC, ArXiv, paywall, SPA)
ADRs documented	9
Capture surfaces	5 (web / ext / mail / share-sheet / api)
Self-host one-liner	`docker compose up` or `pulumi up`

Status


Repo	github.com/mateokadiu/tide
License	MIT
Build	green
Lighthouse	published in `docs/performance.md`
Self-host	docker-compose + Pulumi-TS on Oracle Cloud Free
Deploy	not yet — self-host only for now