Show HN: LurkHub – Store your bookmarks, articles, feeds and posts in GitHub

Hi I'm Leslie and LurkHub is something I’ve been building to help me learn web development and scratch an itch: I wanted a simple way to save bookmarks and other stuff to help me navigate the web. Since I already use Git and GitHub to organise personal projects, it felt natural to store this data in a private GitHub repo and access it via the API. The data is in readable JSON files for future-proofing.

I’ve recently added a basic RSS reader to help me keep track of things I subscribe to. I don’t like being overwhelmed so it just shows the most recently updated feeds along with the most recent item posted. Clicking the feed title shows the full list of items in the feed.

The most recent addition is the ability to make public posts. I wanted to setup a blog and figured I could reuse some of my existing code to publish posts in markdown format to a public GitHub repo, and then serve those public posts at lurkhub.com/@username (I’ve started blogging at lurkhub.com/@leslielurker). Like the feeds it's basic but seems to work ok so far for my needs.

This is still a work in progress but anyone is welcome to use it. There are screenshots and more information on the homepage. You can login the standard way via GitHub’s OAuth which will automatically create the lurkhub-data private repo and the lurkhub-posts public repo. Or if you prefer a more granular approach you can login via a personal access token although this requires a bit of manual setup like creating the repos, setting up permissions for the token, etc. The source code is available on GitHub too.

If you have any thoughts or questions feel free to email me at leslielurker@gmail.com

Thank you for reading, Leslie