Link Arena

Link Arena started as a personal itch: every read-it-later app I tried was either too heavy, too slow, or buried saving behind three taps. I wanted something that felt like a command line for the web — paste, tag, done.

What it does

• Instant capture — a global hotkey and a paste box that parses titles, favicons, and metadata in the background so saving never blocks you.
• Smart organisation — tags, full-text search, and collections that stay fast even past tens of thousands of links.
• Sync everywhere — a thin client backed by a Postgres source of truth with Redis caching the hot paths.

How it's built

The frontend is a Next.js App Router app with React Server Components doing the heavy lifting, so the initial payload stays tiny. Postgres holds the canonical data; Redis fronts the search and feed queries that get hit on every keystroke.

The result is a tool that disappears into the workflow — exactly what a bookmarking app should do.