# Link Arena

> A fast, keyboard-first bookmarking manager for people who collect more links than they can read.

_2026-05-10_

[Live](https://linkarena.app/) · [Source](https://github.com/sayeedjoy)

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.