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Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by wazoox »

gildas wrote: post #20
wazoox wrote: post #15

First, it's not self-hosted if it's not running on my computer (or eventually my private cloud). Second it seems like it doesn't snapshot the web pages? That's the killer feature that made me use Zotero, though it's big, ugly and clunky. I was tired of getting broken links or free articles that later required payment to be read again. I was quite happy with Instapaper, but annoyed by the not "self-hosted" part.

SingleFile [1] has some basic options allowing you to archive pages you add in your bookmarks. [1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile

Good job :)

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by mynameismon »

betahuhn wrote: post #14
mynameismon wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a pricing plan for it? I can't seem to find one, and I prefer knowing what am I signing up for upfront.

Space (and WebCrate) are currently free! Even if they charge something for it in the future, the version of WebCrate you install today will always be free. On Deta Space updates are also opt-in, you choose when and if you want to update WebCrate.

Thanks!

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by cyberge99 »

res0nat0r wrote: post #21

I've been burned at least 3-4x now by bookmark sites shutting down, I just stick with Buku now: https://github.com/jarun/buku Local, text/cli based, sqlite.

Agreed. I use buku and bukuserver because I can view bookmarks on my terminal/cli in addition to the browser page.

Bookmark management is in a bad state of affairs. If I'm on my phone or misc. browser, I use Pocket. I then use 'puku' to sync my Pocket urls into buku (with tags).

I use bukubrow for Firefox as an extension.

I wish there was a better way, but for now it works.

If anyone can write an iPhone/Android app, I'd be open to collaborate on project that could optimize bookmark management.

A great product would be: browser independent extensions, cli tool, db backend, os independent, self-hosted (with option for cloud) and no requirement for a web interface.

Just my .02 cents.

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by betahuhn »

vorpalhex wrote: post #19
betahuhn wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Space (and WebCrate) are currently free! Even if they charge something for it in the future, the version of WebCrate you install today will always be free. On Deta Space updates are also opt-in, you choose when and if you want to update WebCrate.

How is the service currently being funded?

WebCrate is free since I as a dev don't run any servers and the data/compute lives with the users. I don't have any operational costs essentially.

Deta Space is just getting started -- their plan is to offer payments and take a percentage for paid apps.

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by hk1337 »

Can this import .webloc and .url files? If there's something I want to keep, I will normally just drag the url over to my desktop when then saves it as one of those files. I don't have a toolbar showing in my browser and trying to hunt for the link or button to save it is more work than just dragging the url to the desktop.

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by larrywright »

Neat product! I wanted to point out a couple of typos on the landing page:

“Subscribe directly to another users WebCrate instace“

“Stays running even if the we disappear.”

You might want to use a tool like Grammarly to help tighten up the marketing copy (or just pay a copywriter - you can probably even find someone at your university to do it for cheap). Not a criticism, just a suggestion.

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by betahuhn »

larrywright wrote: post #27

Neat product! I wanted to point out a couple of typos on the landing page: “Subscribe directly to another users WebCrate instace“ “Stays running even if the we disappear.” You might want to use a tool like Grammarly to help tighten up the marketing copy (or just pay a copywriter - you can probably even find someone at your university to do it for cheap). Not a criticism, just a suggestion.

Whoops! Thanks so much for pointing them out!

Thought I fixed all the typos, but some always get through! Grammarly might be a good solution, thanks :D

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

Deta Space appears to be very lacking in the product details department. I see a comment saying you can't self-host it, so it has to be on Deta's cloud, or can you even bring your own cloud provider?

Is there any technical/security guarantee's to Deta's privacy claims? For one, a casual reading of their privacy page suggests they integrate a half dozen analytics (aka monitoring) tools including Google Analytics.

Re: Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool

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Post by ocdtrekkie »

larrywright wrote: post #27

Neat product! I wanted to point out a couple of typos on the landing page: “Subscribe directly to another users WebCrate instace“ “Stays running even if the we disappear.” You might want to use a tool like Grammarly to help tighten up the marketing copy (or just pay a copywriter - you can probably even find someone at your university to do it for cheap). Not a criticism, just a suggestion.

I would strongly discourage use of Grammarly: It's essentially a keylogger which uploads everything you type to their cloud service, and there is really no guarantee of privacy or ability to delete that data.
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