Pretty cool, interested to see where you take this. Have you checked out Hypothesis? It's a similar tool thats been around for a long time: https://web.hypothes.is/
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#12Pretty cool, interested to see where you take this. Have you checked out Hypothesis? It's a similar tool thats been around for a long time: https://web.hypothes.is/
Thanks. Ya, I actually spoke with the founder of Hypothesis a while back, and a former contributor who was looking into using Kontxt. Kontxt not only enables rich web collaboration, but it helps atomize the web to re-use key pieces in secondary contexts like a social network or in the future, to create new content. Kontxt takes a social first approach with many ways to share and follow with others.
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#13Ambitious! Cool idea, but its scope is so broad... I think your roadmap will need to include robust support for integration with related tools. For example, it's hard to imagine committing to creating highlights in an all-in-one service like this, vs something like Readwise, which lets me export highlights to my Obsidian vault.
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#14Ambitious! Cool idea, but its scope is so broad... I think your roadmap will need to include robust support for integration with related tools. For example, it's hard to imagine committing to creating highlights in an all-in-one service like this, vs something like Readwise, which lets me export highlights to my Obsidian vault.
Thanks. Ya, it's a grand vision. Every big journey begins with a single step and a lot will depend on how people actually end up using it and what they want. And I agree, I can definitely see myself adding an export feature in the future.
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#15First impression harsh feedback: It takes too many seconds between opening your landing page and understanding what your product is. The first thing I should see is your product doing something I want. By the time I scrolled to the cute icons with aspirational text, I did not understand what it is. To actually see what any of the product looks like, I have to click a video and watch about 15 seconds of contentless title screens.
Re: Show HN: Kontxt – Social web layer with CMS and social network
#16First impression harsh feedback: It takes too many seconds between opening your landing page and understanding what your product is. The first thing I should see is your product doing something I want. By the time I scrolled to the cute icons with aspirational text, I did not understand what it is. To actually see what any of the product looks like, I have to click a video and watch about 15 seconds of contentless ti…
Noted. Thanks for the feedback.
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#18What are your plans for dealing with people who do not wish to have a third-party commenting layer they have no moderation power in forced upon them, and for the problem of a “let’s find weird people and mock them until they are on the verge of suicide” community like LJDrama/Something Awful/4Chan/Kiwifarms/etc starting to use Kontxt? This is a problem that every “we made a comments layer for the entire web!” project…
There will always be a delicate line to be addressed between free speech and moderation / censorship. There's a web layer, but pieces can also be extracted and shared in groups and feed in the app. There is an option for publishers / site owners to natively add Kontxt directly to their site with a single line of javascript to give them an initial point of control and moderation (view only, comment, or user added high…
Is there an opt-out option for publishers and site owners?
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#19Hey David, congrats on the launch. Really happy to see the product here and all the best with the venture.
David has been working hard on this for quite some time and regularly reaching out
to different audiences in different mediums to collect feedback and work on product. I was part of the early test and I did really like the idea. It is quite comprehensive, for people organizing stuff in a workflow this will be a new change.
Re: Show HN: Kontxt – Social web layer with CMS and social network
#20Hey David, congrats on the launch. Really happy to see the product here and all the best with the venture. David has been working hard on this for quite some time and regularly reaching out to different audiences in different mediums to collect feedback and work on product. I was part of the early test and I did really like the idea. It is quite comprehensive, for people organizing stuff in a workflow this will be a…
Many thanks for your early feedback!