I love the UI and everything about this, however it's another free service I won't be using - no revenue therefore highly likely these guys will get acquired as a talent acqusition and then the service will be shut down.
Kippt (YC S12) Launches Bookmarking App To Become The GitHub For Links
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Re: Kippt (YC S12) Launches Bookmarking App To Become The GitHub For Links
#12You need to improve your onboarding process.
The sign up process is slick but way too long. Need to provide some instant gratification.
Just because I like to check out new products, I was patient and did all the steps properly. But, in the end I just got a blank screen saying "this list is empty". That was pretty disappointing. Then I imported my Instapaper articles and still the list is empty.
If speed is an issue, why don't you just show me "today's popular articles" or just fetch the last 10 links I shared on twitter? Show me something or I might never come back. This is not exactly a space without competition.
Edit: I'd like to be able to save articles with a single click. The 2-click save thing is what everyone gets wrong and why I end up using Instapaper for all my bookmarking.
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#13Am I the only one who doesn't use bookmarks?
99% of the time, if I need to find something I've read before, I'll just search for it & find it.
The exception to this is when I was working support and had several product spec sheets & other reference pages bookmarked for quick access to email links to customers. Even while I was at Uni, I'd download articles to PDF.
On the rare occasion that I like or am interested in something enough to want to bookmark it, I find I rarely actually come back to it. Just looking now, in my Bookmarks menu I have a couple of folders — apparently the result of me saying "save all open tabs as bookmarks" in the hope of coming back to it later — but never having done so.
Long-form articles I come across while I should be doing something else go to Instapaper to be read later (is this what people use bookmarks for?). Even then realistically I only actually read 20% of them.
Anything I really think a friend of mine should read, I email a link there & then. This is a 1- or 2- click operation.
Anything that I think is just too interesting/funny/important to keep to one or two friends, I put on Twitter, or here on HN. (I guess that ends up being a kind of bookmark service; I have scoured my submitted stories (and upvoted stories) to find them again.)
For my frequently visited sites without RSS, the browser URL bar is my friend - just start typing & it autocompletes. The only bookmark in my bookmark bar is the "Instapaper: Read Later" bookmarklet.
What does everyone else use bookmarks for? Is there some awesome use case I've been ignorant to since 1996? Am I just a freak for never wanting to revisit things?
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#14I see there's a wide range of import options, is or will there be a way to export bookmarks too?
import isn't instantaneous - I uploaded my delicious links, and was promised an email when import finished.
Still no email (an hour or so later) :) - tbf, there's about 3000 links
Re: Kippt (YC S12) Launches Bookmarking App To Become The GitHub For Links
#15You need to improve your onboarding process. The sign up process is slick but way too long. Need to provide some instant gratification. Just because I like to check out new products, I was patient and did all the steps properly. But, in the end I just got a blank screen saying "this list is empty". That was pretty disappointing. Then I imported my Instapaper articles and still the list is empty. If speed is an issue,…
There are one-click bookmark lets for each list you create, as well as your inbox and read later list, on the tools page[1], under Quick Bookmarklets
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#16The UI is very very slick, saw them a few weeks back featured as one of the twitter bootstrap example apps. Reminds me of the warm fuzzy feeling I got when I first used Path. I especially like the introduction flow for connecting accounts (fb, twitter) and the call to action to install the browser extension in the end. kudos.
Yup this is a really good example. Only thing I didn't understand was I signed up with FB so I had a verified e-mail address, yet they asked me to put one in - the default of my FB one would have been a little bit better
We should get it via the API. Thanks for the tip!
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#17I see there's a wide range of import options, is or will there be a way to export bookmarks too?
import isn't instantaneous - I uploaded my delicious links, and was promised an email when import finished. Still no email (an hour or so later) :) - tbf, there's about 3000 links
Shouldn't take that long. Could you email me at hello@kippt.com with your username and I'll take a look?
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#18This could be popular with readers of text erotica. See, for example, the Pinboard spikes when delicious changed. ( http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/10/the_fans_are_all_right/ ) I think it's a cool idea. It could be really useful for some things I do. I'm glad to know about it. I have no freaking idea what you mean when you say "The github for links" - and the people I'd want to use this with will never have heard of git…
That blog post was fascinating — I had no idea the Fan community was so mobilised (nor that they were even a community cohesive enough to have a name, nor that the name was Fans).
I wonder how many other comprehensive communities exist like this, somewhat under the radar, serving themselves.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
import isn't instantaneous - I uploaded my delicious links, and was promised an email when import finished. Still no email (an hour or so later) :) - tbf, there's about 3000 links
Shouldn't take that long. Could you email me at hello@kippt.com with your username and I'll take a look?
mail sent, thanks for taking a look. Same username as here.
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#20Nice use of bootstrap, but modifying it on the homepage as well. Great design.
Thanks! Bootstrap has been a big help for us