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Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by endtime »

cheald wrote: post #2

After spending some time last night bemoaning Delicious' impending demise, I decided to just write my own stand-in. So I put in a few extra hours last night and banged this out. It's running on a free Heroku instance with a $5 MongoHQ DB backing it, so I fully expect it to explode if it gets any appreciable attention, but I'm pretty proud of it for an evening project and wanted to share. Thanks to HNer mslagh for the…

Funny, I was thinking of doing the same with the domain I got from mslagh, but I saw that Delicious isn't dying after all before I got a chance to start.

Anyway, good on you and good on him for the domains.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald »

Pfiffer wrote: post #32

Is there any way to import bookmarks from Chrome? I see it mentioned but then it just redirects me to the delicious importer. Place-holder text? Edit: Also it appears to be down atm.

It's Heroku's free plan, so there's only one worker. When someone's doing a big import, everyone else gets backed up behind them. I just added another worker, getting me out of "free" but into "functional". :)

You can do a bookmarks export from Chrome to HTML, then import that HTML file. All the browsers use the standard Netscape bookmarks file format, AFAIK.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald »

joshuarr wrote: post #26
cheald wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yup. Once you log in there's an import tool that'll import any standard Netscape bookmarks file, which is what Delicious exports as.

I'd mention that fact on the landing page. It seems more important than the domain name stuff (which I'd remove, personally). It may be also a good idea to let people import their bookmarks and then make an account. Edit: I see now that in the But... section you mention the import thing. I'd rewrite your main headings to be more persuasive. If one just reads the titles and the first paragraph then one misses the impo…

Good point.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by dekz »

cheald wrote: post #33
Pfiffer wrote: post #32

Is there any way to import bookmarks from Chrome? I see it mentioned but then it just redirects me to the delicious importer. Place-holder text? Edit: Also it appears to be down atm.

It's Heroku's free plan, so there's only one worker. When someone's doing a big import, everyone else gets backed up behind them. I just added another worker, getting me out of "free" but into "functional". :) You can do a bookmarks export from Chrome to HTML, then import that HTML file. All the browsers use the standard Netscape bookmarks file format, AFAIK.

I think your heroku instance is dying under the traffic :P

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald »

dekz wrote: post #35
cheald wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's Heroku's free plan, so there's only one worker. When someone's doing a big import, everyone else gets backed up behind them. I just added another worker, getting me out of "free" but into "functional". :) You can do a bookmarks export from Chrome to HTML, then import that HTML file. All the browsers use the standard Netscape bookmarks file format, AFAIK.

I think your heroku instance is dying under the traffic :P

Yup. I'm gonna crank it up for a short bit then see if I can scale it down to not end up with a $500 bill at the end of the month. :)

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by foomarks »

I've always wished Delicious would get more social and more niche-y. One particular idea I'm interested in is to uncover user bookmarking patterns and not just bookmark popularity. I wonder if this this clone experiment would play with these ideas:

+ Finding the people who shared the same bookmarks as you, and also measure how different they are from you: This might uncover bookmarks and areas of interests that weren't on my radar.

+ Look for users who have similar tagging patterns: Finding similar people would be handy, then I could subscribe to their bookmarks. Delicious has a feature called the user's Top 10 Tags. I wonder if there is a way to compare how similarly you tag with other users to find similar users?

+ When performing a search, look for the most popular bookmarks and the most unpopular to find more esoteric and possibly interesting items.

+ An RSS feed for people who bookmarked the same thing I did: as a way to find new people who share the same interests as you.

Re: Show HN: I wrote my own Delicious clone

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Post by cheald »

ghshephard wrote: post #39

Nice, Clean interface. Fast, responsive. It's broken right now (Won't import my book marks, refers to me as "4d0c26c34caddf4914000003!") - but I'm looking forward to trying it out.

Can you email me your bookmarks file (provided it's not too sensitive)? cheald at gmail - I will play with it and see what's up.

You can change your displayed name in the settings. :)

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