Show HN: Pinterest for text • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by DanielBMarkham » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:52 PM UTC

levng wrote: post #8

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.

I believe they saw it as a conflict. It could have just been my application, though. Might work if another team took a run at it.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by gdilla » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:54 PM UTC

You can just use pinboard.in for this, though pinboard.in is like pinterest for introverts (except it's just better).

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by levng » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

bambax wrote: post #30

levng wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Looking into this right now - in Step 3, did you highlight the quote and click the "Quote It" button? Thanks for letting us know about this.

> in Step 3, did you highlight the quote and click the "Quote It" button? Ah! No, I didn't. I since created a quote and that broke the loop; now when I reach the website I access the list of my quotes. Sorry for the false alarm (although step 3 is maybe a little obscure?)

We were tweaking the UX for that part just before posting to HN. Thanks for the input - we'll definitely look into changing this to make it more intuitive.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by ereckers » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

I'm glad that it wasn't called a "weekend project". I think you can do a little to the right column design-wise to separate out the different components. The quote, attribution, and link to more seem to meld altogether.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by sspiff » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

I love the idea behind being able to collect the snippets and quotes you come across, but not having an alternative for a Facebook sign in pretty much makes this useless for me.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by olegp » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

sspiff wrote: post #36

I love the idea behind being able to collect the snippets and quotes you come across, but not having an alternative for a Facebook sign in pretty much makes this useless for me.

Agreed. I think this would be very useful in a business context as well, but business users need an alternative form of login. In the end I ended up to our B2B web app directory anyway though: https://starthq.com/apps/quotered

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by itsybitsycoder » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 5:23 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).

Twitter's primary use is to broadcast information to other people, or to read snippets from people you find interesting (particularly celebrities). Pinterest's primary use is to collect images for your own personal benefit. I use Pinterest and have boards for recipes, pictures of places I'd like to visit, fashion choices I'm interested in trying, etc. Most of my pins come straight from the web, and while it's nice if others repin/like/follow me, I don't really care. I have no interest in Twitter, but I might use QuoteRed.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by jperras » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 5:27 PM UTC

I'd just like to mention that https://gimmebar.com allows you to save text snippets in a similar manner, in addition to pretty much any other media type, and doesn't require you to use Facebook for login.

Disclaimer: We (Fictive Kin) built Gimme Bar, so there's quite a bit of bias in my previous statement.

Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text

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Post by darkarmani » Tue, Apr 16, 2013, 5:30 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).

Twitter doesn't allow very much text.