Show HN: Pinterest for text

#1

Post by levng » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:32 PM UTC

Show HN: Pinterest for text
quotered.com

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

#2

Post by mchusma » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:43 PM UTC

I've always described Pinterest as "Twitter for images instead of text."

If this is a common description it might help to come up with a better proxy. If not, go for it. I have no clue personally how to evaluate consumer products like this. Seems just as likely as any to work (Low probability high reward).

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by bradhe » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:45 PM UTC

I can see a lot of utility in this tool. I don't care about quotes for quotes sake, but I could totally see this being useful as a tool for saving snippets.

No idea how that's a business, but you can figure that part out.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by BryantD » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:48 PM UTC

This is pretty cool. I'd like to be able to log in with something other than Facebook, but I like the idea of being able to save text snippets.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

I played around with this idea a couple of years ago, called it Quote Feed. I applied to Amazon -- thought it would be a great kindle app. Amazon seemed to have other ideas, though.

Good luck! For what it's worth, I think it's a really cool idea.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by webwanderings » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:54 PM UTC

bradhe wrote: post #3

I can see a lot of utility in this tool. I don't care about quotes for quotes sake, but I could totally see this being useful as a tool for saving snippets. No idea how that's a business, but you can figure that part out.

Try Tumblr for this, it works well.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by terhechte » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:56 PM UTC

I build something very similar in 2007: http://quotevault.appspot.com/

It has a bookmarklet to store quotes, and you can share selected quotes on a public 'quote feed': http://quotevault.appspot.com/public/terhechte

It never really took of, so I stopped working on it. Kinda stupid because I spend quite some time working on it. Good luck with your endeavour.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by levng » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 3:58 PM UTC

DanielBMarkham wrote: post #5

I played around with this idea a couple of years ago, called it Quote Feed. I applied to Amazon -- thought it would be a great kindle app. Amazon seemed to have other ideas, though. Good luck! For what it's worth, I think it's a really cool idea.

Thanks Daniel - so it didn't work out with Amazon? The Kindle annotation system is also part of the inspiration behind QuoteRed actually. I find it pretty useful myself.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by undershirt » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:00 PM UTC

mchusma wrote: post #2

I've always described Pinterest as "Twitter for images instead of text." If this is a common description it might help to come up with a better proxy. If not, go for it. I have no clue personally how to evaluate consumer products like this. Seems just as likely as any to work (Low probability high reward).

This seems like a way to separate the aphorisms and other significant musings from the everyday conversations on Twitter. I definitely see the value in this.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by ramayac » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:01 PM UTC

terhechte wrote: post #7

I build something very similar in 2007: http://quotevault.appspot.com/ It has a bookmarklet to store quotes, and you can share selected quotes on a public 'quote feed': http://quotevault.appspot.com/public/terhechte It never really took of, so I stopped working on it. Kinda stupid because I spend quite some time working on it. Good luck with your endeavour.

Well, use it as part of your portfolio, opensource the project on github and share your experience :)