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Post by notatoad »

onyva wrote: post #250
mercer wrote: post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In some ways Mark Zuckerberg was cut from the old cloth. The original Facebook was in many ways amazing, quickly evolving, and so open. Everything took a turn for the worse with advertising. At the same time, for me, Facebook was the first example of the internet becoming more samey, centralized and where its users became more consumers of a platform instead of individual creators. When I first got to use Facebook…

Same cloth? Zukerburger was an asshole to begin with, based on the stories told so far. No he’s just behaving with impunity after selling his soul to the Drumpf.

the old-school nerds that get celebrated like this are mostly all assholes. building cool things doens't make you a nice person.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by captainmuon »

marcus_holmes wrote: post #116
dajohnson89 wrote: post #111

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adding rss feeds to (say) google reader doesn't require technical expertise. email newsletters require your email address, which is obviously prone to abuse and spam. newsletters aren't the new rss, but rather an arguably inferior replacement.

ah, but newsletters allow you to serve adverts, which is really why RSS "died".

Nothing stops you from putting ads in RSS.

I personally think RSS was killed when social networks shifted to social media...

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by simantel »

daguar wrote: post #285
spieden wrote: post #282

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My favorite is https://readwise.io

Is there any existing directory of similar products? Small team, sustainable. I ask because I know one of the big tradeoffs of bootstrapping is no growth "war chest" — but I would love to find and use more of these!

Indie Hackers has a pretty big database of products: https://www.indiehackers.com/products

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by joshu »

whym wrote: post #25

Ask HN: Why did delicious.com fail? (2017) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15493212 After some digging, the above thread seemed like the most informative one as to what happened to Delicious (with a top comment from joshu, no less).

good thread. i like the guy explaining to me that i am wrong about what happened.

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by joshu »

julienchastang wrote: post #289
kerrsclyde wrote: post #41

I went to a talk by Joshua Schachter not that long after del.icio.us started gaining traction. It was a most fantastic time for the web, the possibilities seemed endless. I happen to think if it hadn't been bought by Yahoo! who seemed to have no vision for it then it would still be a tool I relied on.

I am surprised to see Joshua Schachter only mentioned once throughout this entire thread. I loved the story of how he started Del.icio.us from essentially nothing. He was one of my heroes at the time.

:)

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Post by jslakro »

After del.icio.us shutdown my bookmarking simply exploded, splashing in any existent service, Keep, twitter favs, feedly read-laters, g+ +1 posts, myself emails, plaintext, around 8 browsers favs (mobile and desktop) along 10 years.

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Post by crispyambulance »

millstone wrote: post #26

This is old school weird web! For those who did not experience it, del.icio.us was a bookmarking service, and one of the first to have "tags", but also had a sense of fresh discovery. You can bookmark and tag your sites. But you can also browse the bookmarks and tags of people you know, and people they know, getting deeper, freed from algorithmic manipulation. Like Wikipedia, but you start at you.

del.icio.us along with Flickr were the darlings of the old "Web 2.0" ethos.

In particular, I think it was del.icio.us that introduced or at least popularized "tag clouds".

I now am using google keep, but if Ceglowski can bring back and freshen up the old del.icio.us, I will switch over.

Now... somebody resurrect google reader :-)

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Post by semireg »

duxup wrote: post #215
haywirez wrote: post #151

What a hero — love how the story of Pinboard stacks up against the long-term unsustainability of VC-funded and overhyped startups. Quote from the 2011 article[0]: "My dream is to keep this a one-person project," says Ceglowski. "I am competing against billionaires like the YouTube guys running Delicious and I can hold my own. The tools I use have gotten so good and they are the same ones that Yahoo and Google use." I…

It does seem like there might be room out there for things that aren't unicorns, but are sustainable / good products that can operate, even at a profit, with small teams. I always think of / mention Gumroad when I think of that: https://sahillavingia.com/reflecting I worry in the rush to the tip top we lose some good products / services / economic activity that are billion dollar wins... but are still way good ideas.

The tooling has become insanely good, so long as you trust the shoulders of the giants you’re standing on. For example, a month ago the Electron team introduced a bug that made my Microsoft Store app think it was outside the store. The users of my app were not happy - so I looked into how I could test the app “in the store” as a beta ... it’s basically an exercise in frustration. Package flights are a joke, build numbers don’t make a package unique. Just all sorts of hassle for a store that’s 1% (I’m being generous) the size of Apple’s.

Anywho, I’m a solo developer that created a desktop electron app that lets you design and print labels (either roll or sheets) and can import spreadsheet data for use in text, barcodes and even colors. It’s been a hell of a ride so far because my customers run the gamut of “organizing my yarn” to “storing nuclear isotopes.” I get emails and calls like, “I need to print 15,000 labels by Tuesday or I’m fired!” Those are always fun. My customers are in my small town of Minnesota USA, California, UAE, Russia, China, India, Brazil, Australia, NZ. I have global reach in this funky little niche.

All this made possible by some insane tooling (and toiling). It’s a really fun time to be a developer... even if my app takes up 500MB memory. Ha!

You can download my app from https://label.live

Re: Del.icio.us

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Post by myself248 »

dhosek wrote: post #266
mercer wrote: post #141

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> In some ways Mark Zuckerberg was cut from the old cloth. The original Facebook was in many ways amazing, quickly evolving, and so open. Everything took a turn for the worse with advertising. At the same time, for me, Facebook was the first example of the internet becoming more samey, centralized and where its users became more consumers of a platform instead of individual creators. When I first got to use Facebook…

That customizability on MySpace was a security nightmare. My wife was the head of the security team back in the day and a lot of what they did to secure the site was duct tape and baling wire. It was kind of entertaining to log onto the hacker forums and see commentary on my wife's work for the day.

I would read that memoir!
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