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Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#21

how is this any different than delicious?

It's intentionally non-social, your stuff is yours. It doesn't require a redirect when adding a bookmark, and in general I find it simpler and quicker to work with than delicious (especially the newest version).

the delicious plugin for firefox is quite handy. i can save a link and tag it as 'do not share' in about 2 seconds.

sorry man, not trying to bash your idea, but it's been done before :-/.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#23
WoW .... dude you totally ripped off this http://readitlaterlist.com/ . ReadItLater has been around since august 2007 and featured on Digg here is an article from one of Om Malik's network sites http://tinyurl.com/5bsuf4

Dude reconsider the name it screams of copycat and a lack of innovation!!!

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#24

delicious + tag as "toread" is what i've been doing

Any bookmarklets for that? i.e., tag and save it automatically?

I have the firefox delicious extension so I just hit Cmd+D then tag it whatever I want (usually I add all the popular tags) and then type in "toread." a 3 second process and it works for me.

http://delicious.com/pstamatiou/toread

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#25

WoW .... dude you totally ripped off this http://readitlaterlist.com/ . ReadItLater has been around since august 2007 and featured on Digg here is an article from one of Om Malik's network sites http://tinyurl.com/5bsuf4 Dude reconsider the name it screams of copycat and a lack of innovation!!!

Meh, the problem and it's solution isn't that original so I wouldn't scream ripoff just yet. Also The other site want's you to install an extension. In my personal experience (a while back so don't know current situation) it was a bit buggy, and the offline reading thing didn't work very well. With this you can have sort of the same (minus offline reading). I still prefer delicious (tag: toread or towatch) though, have to admit I'm a bit of a fan of the delicious site, so I'm not that objective.

Edit: How do you plan to monetize this service? Or is this more for fun?

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#26
Hi, I like this.

+ Kudos for entering a market that already has leaders (delicious & instapaper for example)

+ I'd like to see some delicious integration, be it sending it to my delicious -- or the other way around (grabbing links tagged with "markitforlater"

+ the UI is gorgeous, the name is good.

- how do i remove links I accidently marked?

- when you first register, make it do something other than redirect you to /links/ -- I make a new account and the first thing I get is a blank page? whoop ... :) I want to know some good reading sources, I want to b taken back to the homepage for more instructions.

- the bookmarklet is a bit slow, the transparent thing takes a few seconds to appear causing me to think it didnt work.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#27
post #26

Hi, I like this. + Kudos for entering a market that already has leaders (delicious & instapaper for example) + I'd like to see some delicious integration, be it sending it to my delicious -- or the other way around (grabbing links tagged with "markitforlater" + the UI is gorgeous, the name is good. - how do i remove links I accidently marked? - when you first register, make it do something other than redirect you to…

oh and EXTRA MASSIVE KUDOS for not requiring an email.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's intentionally non-social, your stuff is yours. It doesn't require a redirect when adding a bookmark, and in general I find it simpler and quicker to work with than delicious (especially the newest version).

the delicious plugin for firefox is quite handy. i can save a link and tag it as 'do not share' in about 2 seconds. sorry man, not trying to bash your idea, but it's been done before :-/.

Unless I'm wrong, a "private" delicious link doesn't generate an RSS feed, which screws up my RSS/FF3 bookmark action.

Re: Ask HN: Review my web application

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's intentionally non-social, your stuff is yours. It doesn't require a redirect when adding a bookmark, and in general I find it simpler and quicker to work with than delicious (especially the newest version).

the delicious plugin for firefox is quite handy. i can save a link and tag it as 'do not share' in about 2 seconds. sorry man, not trying to bash your idea, but it's been done before :-/.

I never claimed it was entirely unique. Bookmarking via a bookmarklet has been around a long while. I took ideas from several places, and then trimmed it down to the simplest set of functions that solved my problem.
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