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Hi HN, my name is David (david@linkidex.com). I’ve been building Linkidex ( https://www.linkidex.com ) for a while now (first post on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33153…

I don't want to claim that Linkidex is better than Raindrop. Raindrop and Linkidex will serve different audiences. That said, we aren't quite ready to share our long term roadmap.

Thanks for your patience on this! This issue has been fixed.

Raindrop is great! Its written by one guy and the polish / quality of his work is top notch. Our roadmap is going to bring us in a different direction than Raindrop, but more detai…

1) sharing is on our roadmap and core to our long term value proposition. 2) That is a great idea. Right now we default the title to the URL if a user doesn't input a title. Your s…

I don't think a web app can do this, but a browser extension, which is on our roadmap could! Regarding auto-categorize, how would you want that to work? I imagine this could be a m…

100% agree. A browser extension is on our roadmap.

thanks for all of this info!

The front end app maintains its own state. The front end fetches all of a given users links when it loads and stores them in application state (memory within the front end applicat…

The database is PostgreSQL. We are using Material UI ( https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/overview/ ) on the front end which is what makes the website responsive and mobil…

archivebox is neat. Also it looks like they have the option to backup links to Archive.org, which was mentioned in another comment too.

I hope it does!

Making the error reporting of import / export is very high on my todo list. Right now the user just has to wait and doesn't get feedback, which is a bad experience. I see one impor…

We haven't plugged into a phone's "share" functionality yet, great suggestion!

Using web.archive.org is a fantastic idea I had not considered. I wonder if its ok to use their API to serve 'saved' versions of a given site instead of storing it myself. I shall …

by local storage / export, do you mean storing your URLs, or downloading the archived text versions of pages?

To clarify, the suggestion here is to search the contents of a given Link, not just the link's title or url? For example, if I have a webpage "www.linkidex.com/test" which displays…

To clarify, are you suggesting Linkidex automatically sync with whatever the user's bookmarks are on the user's current browser?

A naive solution could be to just display the first letter of whatever the user has named the given link. Not as helpful as a favicon, but it will prevent the page from looking bro…

This is a great point. The chrome extension I was using before building Linkidex had a fixed layout, and I was often times able to quickly navigate it without reading what I was cl…

https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori I haven't heard of this one before, thanks for the info. May I ask what made you decide to use Shiori instead of pocket or something else? It lo…

Notion Databases are neat! I’m not familiar with them, I just glanced over some of the documentation. I think its safe to say Notion Databases would let you create your own Linkide…

Not a problem, thanks for checking it out!

“Test account for HN” registers an account with an email I’ll purge later, so people don’t need to give me their email address if they don’t want to. 1) I think the biggest differe…

Hi HN! My name is David (david@linkidex.com) and I am the author of Linkidex (www.linkidex.com)! My goal is to make bookmarks better. I built Linkidex because I was getting overwhe…