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#21

Congrats on launching! Excited to try it out! Full disclosure: I’m the creator of Pushpin…and yes I feel guilty about how long it’s taken me to make improvements. Your client looks fantastic, awesome job!

Thanks for your kind words!

I'm a Pushpin user as well. Love how feature packed the app is.

Re: Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS

#23
This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently. (I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, but Pushpin has been timing out on me a lot. Maybe I should just clean up my bookmarks...)

Re: Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS

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post #23

This looks promising. I've been looking for a new Pinboard iOS client, since Pushpin started flaking out on me recently. (I have over 17,000 bookmarks, so maybe I'm an edge case, but Pushpin has been timing out on me a lot. Maybe I should just clean up my bookmarks...)

For what it's worth, I haven't been able to get it to download my bookmarks, using either my username/password or API key. And I tried it on both my iPhone and iPad.

Re: Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS

#25
Just to update as I posted a lot here.

I would still like a handful of features spread between Spillo and especially/mainly Pushpin, which is the gold standard for me. Just like with Pushpin, I’ll pay for a solid Pinboard app just to support it. Hopefully you continue updating!

I know SaaS for software like apps is frowned upon here, but I’d be cool paying $10-25 a year (when paying annually) for a solid Pinboard app across iOS and Mac.

Re: Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS

#26

Are tag auto complete on the horizon? I use tagging a lot and it is really hard to tag without. Also one amazing feature Pushpin has I haven’t seen elsewhere is they also tell you how many times you have used a tag during auto complete. If this could be available cross platform, it would be amazing. Paying is not a problem.

There's tag completion in the free-to-try version! Just start typing in the Tags field and Pins will offer you the 3 most used tags that matches it above the keyboard.

I did a top level comment update saying I bought Pins no matter what to support and a bit more info. Thanks

Re: Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS

#27

Congrats on launching! Excited to try it out! Full disclosure: I’m the creator of Pushpin…and yes I feel guilty about how long it’s taken me to make improvements. Your client looks fantastic, awesome job!

Hah I just did an update saying I paid for this app and would be up for paying a yearly subscription for a solid updated iOS and Mac pinboard app.

Pushpin has been the gold standard for me since I got it years ago.

I have yet to see any other browser extension, mobile, or desktop app tell me how many times I’ve used a tag when entering them. I absolutely adore that feature. Also offline archive support. Not sure if any one else provides that either.

Re: Show HN: Pins – A modern Pinboard app for iOS/macOS

#28
post #17

Looks great. Unfortunately login with api token doesn't seem to work for me on iOS ("Invalid login credentials"). Also tried resetting my token.

That sounds weird. I know this is not ideal but you can also use the password option - it isn’t stored on device and only used once to retrieve the API token. All subsequent requests use that token as well. I added that so less savvy users can still log in easily without having to hunt for the token.

I'm not sure if this is related, but I had a similar problem the other day with ReadPaperback in using my token to allow access to my Pinboard account.

The dev responded really quickly:

> "I’m not sure why but it looks like pasting a token on both Safari and Focus change part of the token to be lowercase and I wasn’t properly handling the different case."

Not sure if this the problem here too?

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