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Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by jacknews »

jacknews wrote: post #29

Wasn't there something called tribal fusion or something similar many years ago, amongst several others. Personally, I can't see the point, for example, if I were a product site, I wouldn't some 3rd party able to spew messages all over it, so at best, getting sites to pay you is probably not a business model. But good luck anyway.

Actually, I think I'm referring to ThirdVoice, which was shut down due to lack of success, and websites didn't like it because it "externalized discussions" according to the wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Voice

Also there are many other web annotation systems described here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_annotation and the see-also section shows several failures.

As I said, I personally don't think this is a good idea, I can't see the point, but best of luck in any case, I guess at least some others are finding it useful.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by vxNsr »

shwinnabego wrote: post #9
Kiro wrote: post #8

> Point is currently only for desktop Google Chrome. > Visit getpoint.co from your laptop to check it out! This is very bad. I have absolutely no way of accessing it from desktop right now. If you at least told me what it is about I may come back later. Now I will definitely not.

We played with explaining it on mobile but found that it led to confusion. It's an unfortunate stop gap for now until we have a mobile experience, but certainly agree that copy and mobile landing page isn't the best.

Why not at least have the video available? most people visting your site at this point are probably coming from more affluent backgrounds, thus even if they did get to your site on their phone they likely have a computer and would understand a video explaining whats going on.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by vxNsr »

fiatjaf wrote: post #32

The same thing can be achieved, in a maybe nicer way, with http://www.words4chrome.com/ , a Chrome extension that does public comments in any page ans has already a lot of users.

I've been interested in something like this for a long time, I just with the community was larger, as it is right now there just aren't a lot of comments

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by abhoopathy »

jacknews wrote: post #29

Wasn't there something called tribal fusion or something similar many years ago, amongst several others. Personally, I can't see the point, for example, if I were a product site, I wouldn't some 3rd party able to spew messages all over it, so at best, getting sites to pay you is probably not a business model. But good luck anyway.

"No idea's original, there's nothing new under the sun \ It's never what you do, but how it's done"

- Nas

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by shwinnabego »

bvm wrote: post #35

Cool stuff, one complaint is that my @ sign is most definitely not Shift-2, which was very confusing when i was trying to get past the onboarding process. I've got a UK keyboard, so it's shift-' but you should probably just say "type @"

Good point! We've heard this a lot and will be modifying that.

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by abhoopathy »

fiatjaf wrote: post #32

The same thing can be achieved, in a maybe nicer way, with http://www.words4chrome.com/ , a Chrome extension that does public comments in any page ans has already a lot of users.

Thanks, I hadn't seen this before. Though there are parallels in the medium we use, the products are quite different. We do quick, private sharing with friends - not public commenting.

Their website was down but I found it here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/words/lgdfecngaioi...

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by Tangokat »

abhoopathy wrote: post #27
Tangokat wrote: post #25

Note that for people without American layout on their keyboard the shift + 2 will not work. I had to set my keyboard layout to American for it to work - you should probably fix that. Edit: Came off a little hostile, I like the idea otherwise and may try to convince my friends to use it.

Thanks Tangokat, We've heard this a bunch. Just for my notes, what keyboard are you using and what is the shortcut on that keyboard?

Was using DA. The shortcut would be Alt Gr + 2 (so the right side alt key).

Re: Show HN: Point – a Chrome plugin for private sharing and discussion on any website

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Post by shwinnabego »

vxNsr wrote: post #33
shwinnabego wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We played with explaining it on mobile but found that it led to confusion. It's an unfortunate stop gap for now until we have a mobile experience, but certainly agree that copy and mobile landing page isn't the best.

Why not at least have the video available? most people visting your site at this point are probably coming from more affluent backgrounds, thus even if they did get to your site on their phone they likely have a computer and would understand a video explaining whats going on.

Good idea, we'll probably do this!
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