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Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by vuknje »

nextmoveone wrote: post #19

Personally, I love the UI, awesome design, awesome execution. Bookmarklet is sweet as well. But, I don't know why I need to use this? Why will this help me? What would I store in there? Currently, my bookmarks menu bar is pretty sufficient.. Is the idea to bookmark stuff I don't know a lot about so I can learn about it via wikipedia?

Faviki is not for websites you visit frequently. It’s for websites you don’t want to forget. It provides a way to organize them and find it later. Wikipedia's role is to help organize bookmarks, and also to provide some useful info about concepts.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by vuknje »

noelchurchill wrote: post #12

I like the concept! Tags have never made sense to me because I may describe very similar things using very different tags depending on my mood that day, what I happen to be thinking about, or any other external influences. But if there are designated "tags" for each concept then your bookmarks really are better organized. Definitely a good job overall!

I’m glad you like the concept. That is one of frustrations I've had with other bookmarking tools. I hope you’ll continue to use it! :)

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by vuknje »

tokyotribe28 wrote: post #13

Great concept! Certainly does help to structure tags that can grow out of control in any tag cloud. I'm wondering if you've considered building this as an API or dev library so that it can be used by developers not just for bookmarking but also for tagging in general. But then, where's the money in that, eh? (^_^)

Thanks for feedback. Right now RSS feeds are available for every page, but I definitely plan to make API in the future, and make it as open as possible for developers.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by spencermiles »

Any way to import my existing bookmarks from del.icio.us (and clean up the tags)? Seems like that's one of your biggest barriers to adoption, at least from people who already use a social bookmarking site.

The app looks great, nice and clean, but I already have hundreds of bookmarks in del.icio.us, and don't want to start from scratch somewhere else.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by flupkear »

vuknje wrote: post #22
noelchurchill wrote: post #12

I like the concept! Tags have never made sense to me because I may describe very similar things using very different tags depending on my mood that day, what I happen to be thinking about, or any other external influences. But if there are designated "tags" for each concept then your bookmarks really are better organized. Definitely a good job overall!

I’m glad you like the concept. That is one of frustrations I've had with other bookmarking tools. I hope you’ll continue to use it! :)

yes, me too, I have been using del.icio.us for 1+ year and now I have a gigantic un-useful tag cloud. Your app will not solve the problem of having too much tags, but at least make tags more meaningful. I would suggest you to integrate it with del.icio.us in some way because I don't really feel like switching to another bookmarks system at this point.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by andr »

vuknje wrote: post #9
andr wrote: post #6

i'd say change your pitch. "semantic social bookmarking tool" sounds like it came from a random startup idea generator.

hmmm. you're maybe right. problem is that's really the shortest way to describe it accurately

yes and no. i know what all the words mean, but when i read it and reread it, i didn't get an idea of what's actually unique about the site.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by shawndrost »

Frankly, I hate to see someone with your kind of drive, cleverness, and design sense working on something so trivial. Is a bookmarking tool the most useful thing you can think of working on? If so, post on yc, I'm sure people will toss out a few ideas with no strings attached.

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by vuknje »

andr wrote: post #26
vuknje wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

hmmm. you're maybe right. problem is that's really the shortest way to describe it accurately

yes and no. i know what all the words mean, but when i read it and reread it, i didn't get an idea of what's actually unique about the site.

I see your point. I’ll tell my marketing team to get to work on that ;)

Re: Ask YC: Feedback on my webapp (semantic social bookmarking tool)

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Post by vuknje »

shawndrost wrote: post #27

Frankly, I hate to see someone with your kind of drive, cleverness, and design sense working on something so trivial. Is a bookmarking tool the most useful thing you can think of working on? If so, post on yc, I'm sure people will toss out a few ideas with no strings attached.

http://faviki.wordpress.com/2008/05/08/9/
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