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

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Post by akavel »

frindo wrote: post #11
itake wrote: post #8

This would be cool if it linked with Pocket. I like to book mark articles for later viewing on desktop.

My initial plan was to integrate with Pocket (which I love). I have some ideas for how that would be done. Building this was more about learning how to build a chrome extension, but I think this might work even better as a tool on top of pocket. Given the interest this is getting + the other conversation about bookmarks I might take on the Pocket+ thing next. Thanks for checking it out!

Super cool idea. For my personal use, I'd love if it worked slightly differently, i.e. had the following (additional?) features:

- let me press a button in my browser ("lottery" or "Russian roulette") and just open a random link (from my bookmarks) immediately in the current tab; I'm not interested in emails, but I'm interested in getting inspired sometimes, exactly when I want it and how much I want it :)

- if it could also load bookmarks/favourites from HN & lobste.rs

- as other said, working on Firefox :)

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

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Post by frindo »

jaden wrote: post #44
frindo wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm that's interesting. I'm not very familiar with bookmarklets. Could I sync and persist a uid so that I can store the bookmarks per user?

You could generate a custom bookmarklet for users with their uid embedded in it.

Cool - I'll check out how portable the code from chrome extension to firefox/safari extension is. This could be a quick work around if needed. Thanks!

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

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Post by meremortals »

frindo wrote: post #34
ytwombly wrote: post #31

I hope you're considering a Firefox add-on next!

If I had known the response this would get I wouldn't have launched without it! I'll look into it over the next couple weeks. :)

Fantastic work! I would also very much love a Firefox extension

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

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Post by zorbash »

We at https://tefter.io are working on an alternative way to discover new content and organise bookmarks.

We started off with a similar idea to linkdrop but then thought there's more to bookmarking than that.

So a user may subscribe to a variety of feeds and users, https://tefter.io/~hackernews is of course one of them and have a personalised newsfeed. From the newsfeed posts can be bookmarked and kept in a "weekend reads" list. Bookmarks can be marked as read. However bookmarks can be easily added from any devise, since we offer browser extensions, mobile and desktop apps, slack integration. One can also import from pocket or pinboard.

Concerning newsletters, we thought they may be annoying. Imagine waking up on a Sunday to an email telling you to read stuff. We're trying to stay in the spirit of HN, sending as little notifications as possible. Our users have better things to do and their attention is important.

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

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Post by _eric »

plibither8 wrote: post #46
_eric wrote: post #38

Great idea! I love me some newsletter too, so this should be pretty handy. Minor nitpick: There's a type in the /about page: > I want to change the time I recieve (->receive) my drop

Ironic nitpick: the intended word "typo" in your comment has a typo

Oh, the irony
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