Show HN: Bookmarks.io - Full text search for your bookmarks (free trial)

Great idea. This is the kind of idea that falls into the 'why on earth did I not think of that first' area. Just some comments though. Your call to action is really camouflaged amongst the features. I'd suggest that you relocate your call to action as a huge button where your 'Already have an account?' section is. It could also do with more useful screenshots of the app itself. The app itself confuses me slightly. Your usage of a separate modal kind of threw me off. (I was thinking, is it a downloadable app? A webapp? An extension?) I'm not sure if everyone would agree, but I personally don't need the extra huge window for easy access to websites I commonly use. That never made sense to me. If I commonly use a website, I'll probably already know its URL or name at least. Your app's major value add for me is the ability to search for bookmarks where I KNOW I BOOKMARKED IT but can't seem to find it in the mass of them. Anyway, good job shipping! :) One question though, does the chrome extension automatically sync bookmarks after the first import?

I'm tangentially interested in full text search. What libraries are you using?

We've using Google App Engine and their Text Search feature (https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/search/o...). It's still experimental and slightly buggy but very easy to use and obviously scales well.

They haven't announced pricing for the service yet which is quite key since search is our main feature.

So actually a google search is possible on the limit set of your bookmarks. Why only search on this limit set when I look for something?

Secondly does it search a page in the version I bookmarked it?

This is really great!

Years ago when I was still in college (so probably before 2001) I had this exact same idea, but not the skills to implement it. Later, still wanting a searchable archive of pages I bookmarked, I wrote a Perl script that fetched every link in bookmarks.html into a SQLite database and indexed the content. It was very hackish and not very smart (just indexed the raw HTML), but it worked for my needs, kinda...

After a few years switching laptops and using multiple systems, I let it fall by the wayside - copying the DB and scripts from one system to another and keeping them all in sync was just too much of a PITA to be worth it to me... I'm still a rabid bookmarker though, and your service looks like the realization of all the stuff I wanted to do!

If you offer a free-trial (say two weeks) of this service, I am very interested in trying it and would certainly provide plenty of feedback. I'm not yet convinced that I want to pay $3.99/month, but I don't think it's an unreasonable amount at all, especially considering the iOS app, planned cross-browser support, and the very slick-looking interface.

Add to the existing features some mechanism to automatically/transparently sync new bookmarks, and add some assurance that the data is stored securely and encrypted, and only used for new things with my express permission, that $3.99 goes from maybe to deal!

I'm excited for this - I see a viable business in it since I know I'm not the only other data-packrat out there.

EDIT: I just saw the trial voucher and used it. Thanks!