The ability to capture online content, save it in a virtual library and read it later is a simple, yet powerful idea. It also presents a highly complex challenge. We designed and built the Omnivore reader view, an exceptionally effective solution for saving and sharing content from anywhere on the internet.
Services
Deliverables
From news articles to social posts, online content is diverse, ever-growing and cluttered with ads. Capturing only the consumable part is a near-impossible problem for most web reader apps. Omnivore needed to create a reader view that would allow users to save only the important content and leave out all the filler.
Observing that solutions for one website often proved ineffective on other, differently-formatted sites, we continuously refined Omnivore’s capabilities against content from the top 200 websites. We quickly solved key challenges that other web readers couldn’t, like the ability to easily select content from endlessly-scrolling sites, and designed a clean, simple UI that removes unnecessary elements from saved pages. Omnivore lets users highlight, comment on and share content, and features a reading progress bar and an easily searchable personal library.
Technologies
Node.JS 
Express 
Apollo Server 
Knex.js 
Next.js Apollo Client 
Typescript 
GCP 
PostgreSQL Our tests showed that Omnivore surpasses all other web readers in its ability to parse content from across the web and save it in a reader-friendly virtual library. It’s setting the standard for content curation and sharing, and – having since been open-sourced on Github, with over 8,000 stars – is helping to make sense of an ever-expanding world of online information.
“Fluxon delivered an experience that goes above and beyond any other web reader available today. They approached the project with a reader-centric mindset, and built the custom capabilities and features that make Omnivore so appealing to our users.”
Jackson Harper
Founder & CEO Omnivore
