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Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by tripzilch » Thu, Apr 25, 2019, 3:33 PM UTC

burtonator wrote: post #108

zestyping wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tell a good story. A strong narrative is much more engaging and memorable than a list of features. Your front page at http://getpolarized.io mostly consists of a huge screenshot. When I look at the screenshot, all I see is a PDF viewer with some highlighting. Everybody already has a PDF viewer included with their OS that supports highlighting; there's nothing interesting about that screenshot that shows me what is us…

Good point!!! I'm going to revamp the home page to improve upon this.. part of the issue I have is that some of the features aren't really obviously cool once you don't have the whole. For example web page archival is kind of cool but it becomes a LOT more exciting when you add document management, highlighting, document sharing, etc.

So, write a short pitch story where Anna has been using web archival for a month or so, while on the bus remembers this discussion on a topic she had with Jamie and having seen a relevant web article some time back. She then uses the search feature in the app on her phone to find it, highlights the important quote, and shares it to Jamie.

BTW can Jamie receive this highlighted document if she doesn't use Polar? Say as a PDF? That would be cool, and really help spreading the word about Polar, simply by usage.

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by cldwalker » Fri, Apr 26, 2019, 1:41 AM UTC

burtonator wrote: post #25

Here's a better pitch based on your feedback and maybe more tailored to the Hacker News crowd. The Internet is broken as content primary pools behind walled gardens like Facebook and Twitter. These platforms are not open in the sense that the metadata is locked up inside them. Additionally, they're not very respective of the rights and privacy of their user base. Polar tries to reboot this by building out a generic d…

Have you looked into Solid, https://solid.inrupt.com/, for a distributed data store model? For annotations, have you looked at https://web.hypothes.is/ which uses the web annotations standard? These are both fairly large efforts and could be useful to build on

Re: I'm one of the inventors of RSS and I need your help to reboot the Internet

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Post by SamWhited » Sat, Apr 27, 2019, 11:55 PM UTC

burtonator wrote: post #83

SamWhited wrote: post #78

We've entered a future where not only does it give me an obnoxious cookie disclaimer (how about you just don't set a ton of cookies which make every request huge?) when I launch the web version, but if I try the desktop version it also shows me an obnoxious cookie disclaimer. Please don't launch multiple popups (there's also a welcome one) as soon as your app launches; it scares me away before I can actually try the…

Thanks.. my plan is to put the cookie disclaimer into a ToS thing which is part of the tour... think it has to be there though for GDPR reasons.

For anyone else running into this sort of garbage, I just discovered that ublock lets you block individual elements. Block the GDPR notice and you haven't accepted it and they can't be assholes and set a ton of tracking cookies (or if they still do, someone in the EU please file a GDPR complaint).