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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/omccarth333 on 2025-01-30 23:24:48+00:00.

Recently got fed up with a news article where the whole page was covered in ads and links to other articles that I scrolled through just to hit a paywall, so I built a site that gets the article content from an archive and then uses Mozilla’s incredible readability package to get the article contents and display them nicely. Since it’s all client-side there is no maintenance cost and you can easily self-host since it’s open source.

This is my first time building anything this useful that is exclusively in the browser and I really found that not only was it a fun challenge, but it is incredibly effective for open-source since it becomes so easy to fork and host. I know others have taken on projects like running LLM models in the browser with WebGPU, but have any of you built any reasonably complex programs all on the client-side? I’d love to hear about your projects and learn more about what can be accomplished like this. Bonus points if it saved you from having to deploy a ton of infrastructure or maintain some complicated codebase.