Instapaper is joining Pinterest • Hacker News Board

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#41

Post by bishnu » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

Worth re-reading Marco Arment's blog post about selling Instapaper 3 years ago: https://marco.org/2013/04/25/instapaper-next-generation

"Instapaper needs a new home where it can be staffed and grown, but I didn’t want to give it to a big company that would probably just shut it down in six months."

Oof.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#42

Post by S_A_P » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:05 PM UTC

Pinstapaperist?

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#43

Post by Numberwang » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:07 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #35

Ahahahahaha!

Mediocrity triumphs again!

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#44

Post by Analemma_ » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:08 PM UTC

fishtoaster wrote: post #31

> The Instapaper team will be moving from betaworks in New York City to Pinterest’s headquarters in San Francisco I wonder how the instapaper team feels about that (and/or how much say they had in it).

The "must be willing to relocate to San Francisco" meme now even applies to companies with no presence in San Francisco.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#45

Post by grandalf » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:10 PM UTC

Instapaper is one of my favorite apps and I hope it doesn't change and that I can always access all my stored articles forever and ever.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#46

Post by pixelcloud » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:10 PM UTC

brians wrote: post #15

Bummer. I love and use instapaper, gathering articles for a few weeks to read at altitude. It's a great product, and I paid for a subscription these last years in the hopes that I could therefore continue to enjoy it. Now it's sold to Pinterest, one of the two sites I don't bother with links to—because I know Pinterest and Quora will require me to sign in rather than show me what they showed a search engine. What els…

Readability and Pocket.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#47

Post by leejoramo » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:11 PM UTC

What do people use for the type of content extraction that the Instaparser API provides?

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#48

Post by dmix » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:15 PM UTC

Good opportunity to build an OSS alternative? Or even a side-project... in the possible event Instapaper gets sidelined. That always seems to happen. With the exception of maybe Reddit.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#49

Post by kejaed » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:16 PM UTC

idlewords wrote: post #35

Ahahahahaha!

Now you can get support requests for instapaper too.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

#50

Post by dhruvtv » Tue, Aug 23, 2016, 6:17 PM UTC

Analemma_ wrote: post #22

overcast wrote: post #19

Up next. https://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/

Based on your username, for a minute there I thought you might be Marco Arment, which would've made this comment even more hilariously cynical.

Haha, yes - a link to Tumblr with a comment 'Up next' by the username 'overcast' in a discussion about Instapaper.