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Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Re: Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by jimmyjim »

overshard wrote: post #20
kmfrk wrote: post #5

I can't find it if there is one, but it'd be great to have an example site.

There is none and I don't plan on creating one. I understand why you want one but I don't want to bother with hosting a dynamic website that I would have to manage. (Rather spend the time improving the app itself.) I include a screenshot and an example is wookmark or pinterest's websites. It functions like those. If you want a demo of this exact app then clone it and run it. It's free and open source!

> I don't want to bother with hosting a dynamic website that I would have to manage.

Out of curiosity, after once deploying it, what're some responsibilities that entail from hosting a dynamic website vs. a static one? Isn't it basically a matter of writing (/copying a good one and retrofitting) a fabric script, perhaps doing just a few things with some Apache/nginx config files, and just putting it up? What exactly makes it more hands-on post-launch?

I had been under the impression that this process would not take more than a few hours by itself.

Re: Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by DanBC »

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #33
kmfrk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make money on Pinterest as well: http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-steve-amazon-spammer-... . I couldn't get Amazon referral links to work at first, but if you use amzn.to, your referral is preserved. :) (I'm not saying you should spam the site, but it is possible to get credit for referring people from your pins.)

I consume a lot of stuff from Amazon, so I initially thought I'd just pin whatever I liked and use an affiliate link. That way if somebody else liked my image recommendation enough to chase it down over on Amazon, I'd get a small cut. But Pinterest does not like you doing this. Somebody said they were stripping out your affiliate code and adding their own. I thought about the 10 million ways around this, but at the e…

They used to use Skimlinks - which convert any links (affiliate or not) to their affiliate links. It was in their TOS. I was happy with that, because they've got to make money somehow. Lots of sites do it. But the blogosphere hated it, and I think Pinterest stopped doing it. There have been threads on HN giving clear details about how to bypass it.

Re: Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by DanBC »

sbraford wrote: post #39
sp332 wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think you missed the point of Pinterest. If you like the point of Pinterest, use Pinterest. If you just like the look of Pinterest, you can use Pinry.

Pinterest has recently banned pro-Ana/Mia pins. I could see something like Pinry being useful for creating communities that respect freedom of speech / information / image posting, so long as the content is not illegal.

A search for "thinsperation" shows they're not doing a very good job of it.

I know (many) people with anorexia. They are amazing at hiding stuff. (Fishing weight shot sewed into bras; heavier weight sewed into hair scrunchies. This made the weekly weigh-in easier to pass while still starving.)

I'm glad Pinterest has made the gesture, but they'll never win.

Re: Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by tocomment »

kmfrk wrote: post #32
DanielBMarkham wrote: post #16

I'm getting into Pinterest, trying to figure out what the sharing, socializing, and marketing opportunities are over there. Some of those members have millions of followers. Amazing. It's like having your own private newspaper. But heck if I want to spend my time creating yet more content for some other third-party to make money on. So I can kind of see what they're getting at here. What I decided to do was create a…

You can make money on Pinterest as well: http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-steve-amazon-spammer-... . I couldn't get Amazon referral links to work at first, but if you use amzn.to, your referral is preserved. :) (I'm not saying you should spam the site, but it is possible to get credit for referring people from your pins.)

Could you also use a url shortener to hide your affiliate links? BTW does Facebook preserve Amazon affiliate links?

Re: Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by kmfrk »

tocomment wrote: post #54
kmfrk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make money on Pinterest as well: http://www.dailydot.com/news/pinterest-steve-amazon-spammer-... . I couldn't get Amazon referral links to work at first, but if you use amzn.to, your referral is preserved. :) (I'm not saying you should spam the site, but it is possible to get credit for referring people from your pins.)

Could you also use a url shortener to hide your affiliate links? BTW does Facebook preserve Amazon affiliate links?

It works with amzn.to. Haven't really tried it with anything else; I just pinned an item that was available at Amazon, and I preferred to use my own referral on it. I don't intend to make a business out of posting on Pinterest.

Re: Introducing Pinry, a self-hostable Pinterest.

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Post by dugald3 »

Very cool, I already adapted Pinry to a direct PHP/MySQL implementation, as I'm not a Django user (yet). Applying the new UI to http://www.myinfoq.com/ to make it easier to discover information about your interests and should help as a demo/reference site. Thanks overshard, hope I can contribute back to the community. @dugald3
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