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Ask HN: Please review our new service - Zukmo

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Ask HN: Please review our new service - Zukmo

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Post by kumark23 »

We recently launched the alpha release of Zukmo, a service that is our attempt at solving Information Overload (http://www.zukmo.com).

If you come across any interesting content, you can add it to Zukmo with a single click using the browser button. It could be a bookmark, it could be an interesting person you see on Twitter, it could be an RSS feed or it could be your notes or to do list. We will process the content that gets added to Zukmo and make it easy for you to consume it on most devices.

The alpha release has the bookmarking component complete. Once a bookmark is added, you can search for it by using any term from within the content of the page.

Is this a service you that solves a problem for you? Any suggestions on features that will make the service more usable/attractive?

HN is pretty much our launch pad. We haven't publicised it much until now. Any feedback you could give is greatly appreciated.

Re: Ask HN: Please review our new service - Zukmo

#4

Post by BTBurke »

I spent a few minutes thinking about why I would want this service. It wasn't immediately clear to me what benefit it would provide over something like delicious or just standard bookmarking features in your browser -- then I got it... it indexes the page and lets me search for what I'm looking for later using the full content, rather than just the tags I assigned or information that can be found in the URL or page title. That's something you might want to make more obvious for users that only spend 30 sec on your landing page. Bring out the value proposition right away in simple language, rather than making them wonder what the difference is between filtering, crawling, indexing, recommending, etc.

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#5

Post by kumark23 »

wazoox wrote: post #3

Looks interesting. I'll test it. Just created an account. First comment : * it would be nice if the account creation page was SSL'ed. * The Firefox extension is a nice touch. I'll tell you how it goes, too.

Thanks wazoox. Do keep the feedback coming.

You're right. We should move the account creation page under SSL.

Re: Ask HN: Please review our new service - Zukmo

#6

Post by kumark23 »

BTBurke wrote: post #4

I spent a few minutes thinking about why I would want this service. It wasn't immediately clear to me what benefit it would provide over something like delicious or just standard bookmarking features in your browser -- then I got it... it indexes the page and lets me search for what I'm looking for later using the full content, rather than just the tags I assigned or information that can be found in the URL or page t…

Thanks, BTBurke. Good point. Indexing the entire content of the page so that you can search for anything within the page is a big part of what we do. However, there are several other things we do that we were trying to show on the landing page. For instance, we have an Easy Reader that shows only the essential content of the page without any ads, headers, menus, javascript etc.(similar to the Safari Reader/Instapaper Text View). The current version of the landing page is an attempt at bringing out all the stuff we do/plan to do.

You are right, though. We need to keep iterating on the messaging of the landing page until it is obvious to users within a few seconds of seeing the page.

Re: Ask HN: Please review our new service - Zukmo

#7

Post by mahmud »

I consume more information offline than online .. I think.

Plan to make this a desktop utility as well, something that integrates with the desktop that allows you to right-click and "Zukmo" any given file. Even if you have to fake it by copying files to a temp directory and later sync them with your servers (why? better keep it private on users' machines.)

You will need integration with (MS|Open) Office sometime in the distant future.

Call Insync and see if you can integrate with their clients:

https://www.insynchq.com/

P.S. Nice clojure-like logo :-)

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#10

Post by notahacker »

arb99 wrote: post #8

I don't use stumbleupon, but first thing i thought when I saw your page is "wow thats a big stumble upon icon". And when i compared them, they are pretty similar, just rotated.

I agree that it's a little too similar, especially given that it's a related concept. I'd make tweaking the logo a high priority.
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