Ideas that have been beaten to death
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#2Idea* that has been beaten to death :)
From a consumer perspective, a product has to be 10x better for me to pay for it. There’s simply no way to make a bookmarking app that’s 10x better - there’s just not that much room for improvement.
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#3There are plenty of good paid bookmarking services. Pinboard is popular around here.
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#4Oh I’ve been building one! But mine is truly different™, basically I gave up the idea of organizing bookmarks, in favor of searching them instead, building your personal search engine
In fact I’ve been blogging about it as I build it https://omnindex.substack.com/
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#5Pinboard is the clear winner in this market, as evidenced by the fact that Pinboard acquired at least one other defunct bookmarking site.
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#6Well you could say the same about todo lists. Yet a lot of people make money with todo lists.
I am sure there are some people making money with bookmarking somewhere…
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#7Pinboard is the clear winner in this market, as evidenced by the fact that Pinboard acquired at least one other defunct bookmarking site.
I'm all for functionality-first but Pinboard's UI is ugly to the point of ignorance.
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#8Idea* that has been beaten to death :) From a consumer perspective, a product has to be 10x better for me to pay for it. There’s simply no way to make a bookmarking app that’s 10x better - there’s just not that much room for improvement.
Author here, I took the bookmarking idea as an example. But there are plenty of ideas such as this, for example todo lists etc
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#9A very interesting solution that has worked for me is...Zotero.
Zotero + the web connector basically allows me to do a lot of things that are usually only achieved with paid products. For example, full text search, saving HTML copies offline, linking related websites, adding tags and notes, all of this (and more) is possible.
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#10The problem with bookmarking applications is that aside from a few websites you visit regularly, browsing and searching your bookmarks isn't going to be substantially different from browsing and searching the web, so you can just as well do the latter. If somebody came up with a revolutionary new way to browse bookmarks, then this would also be a revolutionary new way to browse the web (or your filesystem, while we're at it). Whatever you come up in terms of search, however, has to directly compete with the quality of Google's search engine.