Can you add an easier way to browse the quotes people have already posted? Also, if you spend a few days adding more quotes to the database, the site would be a lot more fun to hang out on. Consider that there may be viewers who want to observe passively before adding anything themselves.
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#72I believe https://clipboard.com/ has been doing this for a while, too. It'll be interesting to see if there's a market for these services along with Evernote and similar.
So has https://findings.com/
http://www.bash.org/ since 1999 :)
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#73This looks excellent and well executed. It's disappointing that the only login option is via Facebook, but it's cool that one can also try the service without login in at all. Although after one adds the bookmarklet to one's bookmark bar and comes back to the site, we are caught in an endless loop of step-1-2-3 where we are indefinitely asked to add the bookmarklet again...?
Out of curiosity, what is everyone's preferred login mechanism?
Facebook? Twitter? Google?
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#74This looks excellent and well executed. It's disappointing that the only login option is via Facebook, but it's cool that one can also try the service without login in at all. Although after one adds the bookmarklet to one's bookmark bar and comes back to the site, we are caught in an endless loop of step-1-2-3 where we are indefinitely asked to add the bookmarklet again...?
Out of curiosity, what is everyone's preferred login mechanism? Facebook? Twitter? Google?
Google/gmail
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#75This looks excellent and well executed. It's disappointing that the only login option is via Facebook, but it's cool that one can also try the service without login in at all. Although after one adds the bookmarklet to one's bookmark bar and comes back to the site, we are caught in an endless loop of step-1-2-3 where we are indefinitely asked to add the bookmarklet again...?
Out of curiosity, what is everyone's preferred login mechanism? Facebook? Twitter? Google?
In the decreasing order of priority
* twitter
* github
* google
* ... many many galaxies later.
* facebook.Re: Show HN: Pinterest for text
#76I 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 :)
Thanks, not a bad idea. I'll look into it.
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#77I 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.
That's pretty cool. I notice you have both a public and private option for users. We're sticking to making everything public for now for network effects, but will be keen to add a private option later on, demand pending.
It actually started as a private-only thing, and I only added the social sharing & feed features later. My own use case was collecting quotes, and that's what I build it for. I then realized that I might need some social glue to attract users.
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#78Neat! Admittedly, when I saw the title, "Pinterest for text," I thought of something more like http://www.quoti.ca/
I dig the way I can select some text on a website and automatically turn it into a quote. Slick. Nice product tour too.
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, what is everyone's preferred login mechanism? Facebook? Twitter? Google?
In the decreasing order of priority * twitter * github * google * ... many many galaxies later. * facebook.
It depends on the target; i'm thinking about my friends (most non-techie), from most spread account to least spread:
1)facebook
..some planets later..
2)google
..some solar systems later..
3)twitter
..many galaxies later..
4)github
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#80This looks excellent and well executed. It's disappointing that the only login option is via Facebook, but it's cool that one can also try the service without login in at all. Although after one adds the bookmarklet to one's bookmark bar and comes back to the site, we are caught in an endless loop of step-1-2-3 where we are indefinitely asked to add the bookmarklet again...?
Out of curiosity, what is everyone's preferred login mechanism? Facebook? Twitter? Google?
- Mozilla persona
- OpenId
- Site specific account
In that order.