microfeed VS kindle_clippings_webapp

Microfeed (https://www.microfeed.org/) is what I want from a UI/UX perspective, but it's not really self hosted (it's completely dependent on Cloudflare services for hosting).

If you like Cloudflare and want to host a few GB media files (e.g., audio, video...) for free, then you can try microfeed: https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed

Closest I find is https://www.microfeed.org/ but it's more for sharing media files rather than a microblog.

i’ve been using django/postgres for over a decade. if it were 5 years ago, i’d use django/postgres.

but recently i would use cloudflare pages, r2, d1, zero trust… in many cases, we don’t want to put eggs in the same basket. but in some cases (eg, building mvp, toy projects…), it’s convenient to be on an all-in-one platform .

for example, i recently launched a cms entirely on cloudflare: https://www.microfeed.org/

I feel like microfeed: https://github.com/microfeed/microfeed and Argun Ganesan’s Edge Blog, both enabled by the open alpha of D1, represent a point of change where users of Cloudflare’s developer platform are moving from deploying their own apps to deploying apps created by others.

This is the approach I use in most of my hobby projects. It's simpler, and faster and there are no loading screens.

In my kindle-clippings-manager (https://github.com/karlosos/kindle_clippings_webapp) I import highlights from Kindle and store them in localStorage. The major drawback is a size limitation (10MB). This should not be a problem in most cases but if you need to store more data then indexedDB (Web Storage) can solve the issue.

Linear (https://linear.app/) uses its sync engine to store the data in Web Storage. With optimistic updates, it feels like an offline app. You can read more about the sync engine here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36519448

Live demo • Source code

Source code: https://github.com/karlosos/kindle_clippings_webapp