Three weeks ago, Mozilla announced that Pocket will shut down tomorrow. The web received the news with disappointment: Pocket was widely used and loved.

While many started evaluating alternatives, I won’t need to. I have used Pocket in the past, but two years ago I switched to a self-hosted solution rocking Miniflux and Zap-It, a thin Rust wrapper around an SQLite DB that serves an RSS feed. Miniflux subscribes to the RSS feed, downloads the full page content and makes it available for reading.

After “zapping” hundreds of articles, I am satisfied with the results.

The stack requires minimum maintenance, has a light footprint, and works offline thanks to the Reeder Classic app. Most importantly, I do not depend on any external service to consume my reading list.

The downsides of self-hosting are usually around maintenance and availability. I monitor uptime of my setup through Uptime-Kuma and have just checked the numbers. Over the last year, Miniflux was up 99.9% of the time. Not bad for a self-hosted instance with a single customer, myself.