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Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by bentossell »

I made a tutorial for something like this recently which you can use the Pocket extension with (https://www.makerpad.co/make/newsletter-generator-chrome-ext...) and the newsletter tutorial is here (https://www.makerpad.co/pro/automated-weekly-hourly-email-di...) but it's paywalled.

But you just set up zapier to link new bookmarks to airtable, then use the digest zapier trigger to weekly/daily send a list of all the new links sent to airtable via gmail or the zapier email action.

You can also link this with Mailchimp for a bigger newsletter too (which is in the paywalled tutorial)

Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by fastball »

monadi wrote: post #20

That's a really cool approach - I am operating in a similar space [1] but I have not introduced any rediscovery options like that yet. [1] https://www.randoku.co/

Your product looks fairly similar in scope to Pinboard[0] – what would you say differentiates the two?

0: https://pinboard.in/

Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by monadi »

fastball wrote: post #24
monadi wrote: post #20

That's a really cool approach - I am operating in a similar space [1] but I have not introduced any rediscovery options like that yet. [1] https://www.randoku.co/

Your product looks fairly similar in scope to Pinboard[0] – what would you say differentiates the two? 0: https://pinboard.in/

At its' current state Randoku mirrors Pinboard's features to a certain extent, but I'd like it to be much more than an archiving solution.

I'm working on introducing "read it later" features (à la Pocket/Instapaper), annotations, discovery of relevant content via RSS and re-discovery of content already bookmarked (which is what I liked about Link Drop).

Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by lgats »

monadi wrote: post #25
fastball wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your product looks fairly similar in scope to Pinboard[0] – what would you say differentiates the two? 0: https://pinboard.in/

At its' current state Randoku mirrors Pinboard's features to a certain extent, but I'd like it to be much more than an archiving solution. I'm working on introducing "read it later" features (à la Pocket/Instapaper), annotations, discovery of relevant content via RSS and re-discovery of content already bookmarked (which is what I liked about Link Drop).

Are any of these services able to ping archive.org with the bookmarked URL?

Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by ljm »

mettamage wrote: post #15
frindo wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh no it actually just sends whatever hte link is that you bookmarked. Sorry for the confusion! What you described is actually a _really_ cool idea though haha.

I think reminding ourselves of old things can be quite a good thing in some cases. I think your idea is a _really_ cool idea.

Agreed. So many things languish in my bookmarks and RSS reader. I won’t find them unless I know exactly the right words for them to be suggested. I won’t find them even if I’m trying to (had this problem finding the WildDuck post last week).

A periodical check in sounds amazing. “Are you still curious? Y/n”

Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by frindo »

arendtio wrote: post #28

Nice idea, would love to see an example on the page (e.g. screenshot).

Yeah I probably need to redo the landing page. There are a few more example screenshots on the chrome extension page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-drop/bdfpcani...

Thanks for the feedback!

Re: Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Post by monadi »

lgats wrote: post #26
monadi wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At its' current state Randoku mirrors Pinboard's features to a certain extent, but I'd like it to be much more than an archiving solution. I'm working on introducing "read it later" features (à la Pocket/Instapaper), annotations, discovery of relevant content via RSS and re-discovery of content already bookmarked (which is what I liked about Link Drop).

Are any of these services able to ping archive.org with the bookmarked URL?

Randoku does not do that at the moment - I could potentially extend my parser to keep a copy of the closest archived snapshot url from the archive.org public API. I will explore this - thanks
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