Read-it-later software seems surprisingly hard to monetize given how few are in the space. Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard seem to be the only valid players. T

Read-it-later software seems surprisingly hard to monetize given how few are in the space. Pocket, Instapaper and Pinboard seem to be the only valid players. The ability to facilitate "archiving a webpage" seems to be simple, but read-it-later software needs to be more than that to the modern internet user it seems. It needs to; + Save video and images + Most people require a TTS service of sorts + Even more people want text-extraction (and boy-oh-boy this is hard) + Cross-platform apps & syncing Where are the big costs here? Is it; 1. Scale (Syncing all that multimedia must be expensive) 2. Talent (doubt it's this all the teams seem to be extremely small teams) 3. AI & Scraping development (Most services are poor in their offerings here, not sure its this) I've been thinking about the space a LOT and started to try and develop some pieces of software that eventually I hope people will be able to stitch together into something great. When i've observed problems like this before it seems that eventually a large open source project comes along and kills the markets chance of generating any money, and read-it-later services seem to fit in that fuzzily-defined-in-my-head-only market segment.