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Re: Learnings from building reread.io

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Could someone please build something like that for my local Firefox bookmarks? Make it a gamelike "Discover my bookmarks" or something ;)

It works now if you push all your Firefox bookmarks to Pocket. :)

It is sounding more and more like an FOSS project more and more. That kind of answer to a potential customer is only really useful to people that are fine with solving their own problems.

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#12
post #9

>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options). And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while. If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

The usage data disagrees (see his open and click-through rates).

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#13
post #2

Could someone please build something like that for my local Firefox bookmarks? Make it a gamelike "Discover my bookmarks" or something ;)

That really is a great idea! I would want that too. Adding gamification would certainly be a fun MMO-like experience.

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#14
post #2

Could someone please build something like that for my local Firefox bookmarks? Make it a gamelike "Discover my bookmarks" or something ;)

It works now if you push all your Firefox bookmarks to Pocket. :)

Is there an easy way for that with hundreds of bookmarks?

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#15
post #9

>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options). And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while. If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

On this front -- I hate email. I'm tempted to do a pull request that creates todoist tasks for you each day. If you don't complete them it puts them back into the pool for a future date -- the last thing I need is my todo list guilt tripping me :p.

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#16
post #8

This may only be me but I found the color scheme on your site a horrible eye-strain. There's a reason red text is used for error messages.

It's blinding. I get that it's supposed to imply the pocket connection, but if you go to pocket's website they only use that pink/red color in their logo and for accents like on buttons.

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#18
post #9

>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options). And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while. If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

On this front -- I hate email. I'm tempted to do a pull request that creates todoist tasks for you each day. If you don't complete them it puts them back into the pool for a future date -- the last thing I need is my todo list guilt tripping me :p.

For me, it's the Inbox-Zero-Guilt, but I guess everyone has a different guilt that they are trying to avoid.

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#19
post #9

>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options). And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while. If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

> If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.

You might be right. But there's also the use case of it being just a timehop for your bookmarks vs. a read your unreads tool.

Re: Learnings from building reread.io

#20
I applaud the OP's effort to build and market this from scratch -- then write about it!

I will say, though, there's a reason marketing is an entire function led by separate people. It's hard, uses different strengths and experience, and requires consistent effort -- not variations on "post it and they will come."

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