Upnext is a nice read-later app —and the very beginning of something bigger

Upnext is a dumping ground for all your content, no matter what it is. | Image: Upnext

Upnext is a read-later app. No, it's a bookmarking app. No, it's a content-curation-social-network thing. Even Jeroen Seghers, one of the service's co-founders, struggles to explain it. Longer term," he says, I like to think about what we're building as a knowledge browser." But even he admits that doesn't mean much to anyone right now. Eventually, Upnext settled on A reader with superpowers," which is close enough.

Whatever you call it, here's what Upnext is: it's a place to save and interact with content from all over the internet. It handles articles and blog posts like Pocket or Instapaper but also serves as a dumping ground for all those YouTube videos you want to watch later, the podcast episodes you'll eventually listen to, the...

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