OmniKeep: self-hosted reader migration kit
Moves ex-Omnivore users' saved reading and highlights back onto their own server in one click
- Problem
- After Omnivore shut down, heavy read-it-later users lost their articles, highlights and reading habits, and the official export path is clumsy. Existing self-hosted readers require database setup, scraping config and sync plumbing that ordinary readers cannot handle.
- Solution
- A one-click deployable self-hosted reader image with import wizards for Omnivore exports, Pocket, Instapaper and browser bookmarks. It keeps article snapshots, highlights and tags, and adds full-text search plus a daily reading queue.
- Users
- Heavy read-it-later users, researchers and technical writers who used Omnivore and no longer trust closed cloud readers.
- MVP
- One-command Docker deploy; Omnivore export parser and importer; article extraction with offline snapshots; highlights, tags and full-text search; RSS and browser-extension capture
- Revenue
- Open-source core plus a hosted subscription (managed server, backups, multi-device sync), or a one-time paid desktop bundle
- Why now
- The Omnivore shutdown created an orphaned user base with real migration pain, and existing open-source alternatives are too hard to deploy for non-technical readers