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Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in

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I've been working on Recall for a while now, it had some initial traction in the beginning which has since died down now. I am facing the inevitable question of whether to continue with the project. I just put out a new release and it would be helpful to get advice from the community on what they think of the idea and my implementation.

Show HN: A tool to help you remember shit you are interested in
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#4
From the roadmap:

> Mobile apps in the Play and App stores.

> News subscriptions - this feature will allow you to subscribe to news events relating to a note helping you stay informed on things you are interested in.

> Add more built-in data sources.

> Improved categorization.

> Spaced repetition.

> News/article feed based on user interests.

Charge 5 bucks a month for those features and see if people bite. That's a lot of stuff that most apps don't have. Especially the subscriptions and the spaced repetition functionalities.

If people pay for your work, then you've got all the signal you need to keep going.

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post #4

From the roadmap: > Mobile apps in the Play and App stores. > News subscriptions - this feature will allow you to subscribe to news events relating to a note helping you stay informed on things you are interested in. > Add more built-in data sources. > Improved categorization. > Spaced repetition. > News/article feed based on user interests. Charge 5 bucks a month for those features and see if people bite. That's a l…

Yeah you are right. Charging is the best way to tell if your product is really providing value to users. I have been putting it off always wanting to add more features first.

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This seems really well built. It's fast and responsive. It looks nice. But I just don't understand what I would use it for.

It seems like the idea is to build a database of people, movies, Wikipedia articles and such and then be able to find them via search/links. But I'm not at all sold on why I need this in my life.

Is there a way to make the value clearer? Am I just not in the target audience? Who is going to see this and say "TAKE MY MONEY" and why?

I'm thinking of products that were instant sign-ups for me...

Spotify: For one price, listen to all the music on Earth whenever you want. TAKE MY MONEY!

Gmail: Fast email with 2 GB storage. This was such an instant sign-up they had to make an invite system to slow people getting access.

Maybe could add something like Lichess: Chess training and games, with modern UX, offered open source as a public good. I mean, if you're at all interested in chess, that's an instant sign-up, right?

Trying to say, this idea of presenting a clear value isn't limited to big players like Spotify and Gmail, but can also be done by smaller companies if the value presented is really clear.

What should someone see that makes them instantly recognize they need this in their life, because that's what I'm totally missing here.

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#7

This seems really well built. It's fast and responsive. It looks nice. But I just don't understand what I would use it for. It seems like the idea is to build a database of people, movies, Wikipedia articles and such and then be able to find them via search/links. But I'm not at all sold on why I need this in my life. Is there a way to make the value clearer? Am I just not in the target audience? Who is going to see…

Perhaps it’s your vantage point. I just saw this on mobile, and if it does what I think it does, I can’t wait to try it out. At least for me personally I think this may be exactly what I need for knowledge (interest) management.

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post #4

From the roadmap: > Mobile apps in the Play and App stores. > News subscriptions - this feature will allow you to subscribe to news events relating to a note helping you stay informed on things you are interested in. > Add more built-in data sources. > Improved categorization. > Spaced repetition. > News/article feed based on user interests. Charge 5 bucks a month for those features and see if people bite. That's a l…

This seems like a great idea.

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#10
I have a need for this and basically use Pinboard and Notational Velocity to satisfy it. For me to switch to your product, which looks nice and well conceived by the way, I would have to see the time investment and value as worthwhile.

Maybe it's having been burned too often by services that I pay for but still fail, but I'd only make the effort if it was independent of your continued operation as a business. If it were all local to my computer or phone and relied on a cloud storage service like iCloud or Dropbox, then I'd give it a whirl.

Sorry, but that's a possible hurdle you're facing if my hesitation is common.

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