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Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by ruswick »

This sort of thing never appealed to me. It seems sort of superfluous: with good tagging and organization, you should be able to retrieve bookmarks with ease. Paying for a service just seems wasteful, and I certainly have no intention of subscribing to a service like this (even if I could afford it, which I can't).

Moreover, it's fairly expensive as bookmarking services go. Pinboard offers identical functionality for significantly less money. A few bookmarking services offer search for free. I just can't comprehend how this product can compete on price.

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by hammondos »

shutton wrote: post #11
hammondos wrote: post #10

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nice project, similar to my commuting project bkmrx.com but with a nicer design :)

Looks good. What's your plans with the site, are you going to start charging?

Thanks - no plans to start charging as I essentially want it to grow into a community-based search engine.

Largely a proof of concept for now, maybe one day in the future might charge for indexing of private bookmarks, PDFs, etc, but those features aren't currently implemented due to technical complexity.

On a related note I'm interested to see how www.lumi.do does as this is one of the future feature possibilities I was thinking of for bkmrx...

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by shutton »

hercynium wrote: post #20
shutton wrote: post #13

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Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated. I know what you mean about the call to action being camouflaged, I think we're trying to be too clever, we should make it more obvious. I don't think we're doing a good job of showing how the service should be used either. The idea is you install the bookmarklet or browser extension and then from any page on the internet when you launch the bookmarklet/extension the modal wi…

This is really great! Years ago when I was still in college (so probably before 2001) I had this exact same idea, but not the skills to implement it. Later, still wanting a searchable archive of pages I bookmarked, I wrote a Perl script that fetched every link in bookmarks.html into a SQLite database and indexed the content. It was very hackish and not very smart (just indexed the raw HTML), but it worked for my need…

Thanks for the comment, good to know you can see the potential.

You can use the voucher code HNTRIAL for a two month free trial, please let us know what you think.

About the price. We've kept it high while we wait for Google App Engine to announce their pricing for the text search feature we use. We do expect to be able to charge less once we know their pricing (hopefully 25% to 50% less) at which point we can announce our price drop.

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by shutton »

ruswick wrote: post #21

This sort of thing never appealed to me. It seems sort of superfluous: with good tagging and organization, you should be able to retrieve bookmarks with ease. Paying for a service just seems wasteful, and I certainly have no intention of subscribing to a service like this (even if I could afford it, which I can't). Moreover, it's fairly expensive as bookmarking services go. Pinboard offers identical functionality for…

Fair point. Which free bookmarking services do you know that provide full content search?

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by marknutter »

StavrosK wrote: post #25
marknutter wrote: post #17

I've been using http://historio.us for quite some time now and really like it. It's basically the same concept.

Thanks Mark, I'm glad you like it! (I'm the creator).

It's been great. And I just realized I'm still on the free account so I upgraded to premium for the year. Keep up the great work (and stay in business, please :)!

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by StavrosK »

marknutter wrote: post #26
StavrosK wrote: post #25

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Thanks Mark, I'm glad you like it! (I'm the creator).

It's been great. And I just realized I'm still on the free account so I upgraded to premium for the year. Keep up the great work (and stay in business, please :)!

Haha, don't worry, it pays for itself already! Thanks for the upgrade, I just got the email :)

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by arikrak »

It makes sense to charge for a service like this which keeps a copy of the page. But I wonder if there are services that just rely on Google and do some form of Google custom search on your bookmarked pages.

It might be Google comes with such a service already. I was able to do a full text-search of my Google History (http://www.google.com/psearch), but it didn't work when I tried an old result from my bookmarks.

Re: Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

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Post by ju »

StavrosK wrote: post #27
marknutter wrote: post #26

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It's been great. And I just realized I'm still on the free account so I upgraded to premium for the year. Keep up the great work (and stay in business, please :)!

Haha, don't worry, it pays for itself already! Thanks for the upgrade, I just got the email :)

Can you tell me pls, do you archive only HTML or also and other assets?
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