After getting burned by Pocket, I moved everything into a self-hosted setup.

Current stack:

  • FreshRSS for feed ingestion
  • Readeck for actual reading
  • Linkwarden for long-term storage

Running on Docker Swarm behind Traefik, internal-only. Remote access via WireGuard.

A few gotchas that took longer than expected:

  • Readeck container entrypoint pointing at /readeck (dir) instead of /bin/readeck
  • Linkwarden auth issues due to build-time NEXT_PUBLIC_* vars
  • Had to seed the first user manually in Postgres with bcrypt
  • Internal SMTP relay quirks between services

It’s definitely more work than SaaS, but the upside is ownership.

Full write-up with configs + fixes: https://clifmo.com/blog/posts/saas-is-temporary-your-reading-list-doesnt-have-to-be

Curious what others are using for this now. I considered Wallabag but opted for Readeck, even tho the Readeck Android app has a crash loop right now (for me).