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

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See, I wouldn’t call it self-hosted if you can’t actually… self-host it. Someone else’s server isn’t mine.

I totally get your point! Instead of self-hosting, you could call it a personal cloud.

You are not really helping yourself if you desperately attempt changing established words in a way that it would fit your business. You just alienate people and give yourself a bad reputation people will remember you by.

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

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> Deta Space made it really easy for me as dev to build something like WebCrate quickly and it's also awesome for users. The app keeps running even if I disappear and hosting, auth etc. is all handled for me

Ah yeah, love the concept, I had similar goals in mind when making Cardi (although I wasn't aware of many options at the time for putting data in control of the user -- I ended up just having people log in with AWS access keys and it stores data in DynamoDB, which is weird but has actually been working pretty well so far).

https://github.com/pickledish/cardi

Deta seems really interesting, looking forward to seeing where it goes from here! Would love more/better options in this space.

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

#64

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,…

@cyberge99 check out BrainTool[1]. Its a Chromium extension that allows you to capture bookmarks and notes into a hierarchical topic tree thats stored in an org-mode syntax plain text file editable w emacs or any org editor (incl Orgzly on Android). It's not browser dependent for capture and navigation (not sure how it could be) but otherwise checks your boxes.

[1] https://braintool.org/2021/08/25/Managing-your-Browser-with-...

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

#65

Is there any supported way to run it on a private server?

Not out of the box no. You could fork and modify it, but that would take a lot of work. Can't recommend Deta Space enough though, it is kind of like self-hosting it without managing an actual server!

I know not directly related to WebCrate, but it looks like the signup for DetaSpace is broken, so I am unable to try WebCrate.

When I try to sign up for DetaSpace, I get the following message:

> Exceeded daily email limit for the operation or the account. If a higher limit is required, please configure your user pool to use your own Amazon SES configuration for sending email.

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

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Webcrate is a great name, however the "crate" term strongly implies archival in this context to me. So as a user, I would actually assume that it takes an archive/snapshot of every website that I bookmark. The website doesn't seem to indicate it can do this?

lol, this wouldn't be an HN thread without people bikeshedding over an app's name, would it?

The programmer's curse - naming things.

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors."

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

See, I wouldn’t call it self-hosted if you can’t actually… self-host it. Someone else’s server isn’t mine.

come on, let's be a bit more inclusive about the term "self-hosting". For instance, I run a few apps in Linode. I manage the virtual servers, and consider myself to be a self-hoster of these webapps (Nextcloud, Drupal, PixelFed, et cetera) These aren't necessarily my servers but at some level, they are.

It does depend a bit on what you count as a “server”. I’d definitely count virtual servers where you control the software stack entirely (well, apart from ring −1), provided there’s nothing special about the hardware.

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

#70

Can someone recommend a truly self hosted solution? I too use pinboard but I would like to host on my raspi or something

I'm the author of linkding (1), an open-source, self-hosted bookmark manager that is similar to Pinboard, minus the social features. It uses Docker for deployments, SQLite as database and runs on Raspberry Pis.

There are many other solutions in the self-hosted space, such as Shiori or LinkAce.

1: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding

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