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K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

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Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

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Post by dhimes »

cik wrote: post #28

The problem I find with this entire segment of the industry - is that nothing seems to work as I grow and change. Everyone is actively trying to achieve vendor lock in. It's true for Evernote, OneNote, Notion - and all the other things too. To make it worse, none of them are better than pen and paper. I want the ability, from my desktop to clip sections of pages, capture pages, annotate them, etc. I want to have the…

Does Rocketbook have OCR now? I used them when they first came out but the lack of OCR limited what I would use them for.

I just tried to start the app after reading your comment and apparently I have to log in or something and I have no idea how to do that. It was such a cool idea that it's a shame that it never quite got its act together.

Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

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Post by WealthVsSurvive »

cik wrote: post #28

The problem I find with this entire segment of the industry - is that nothing seems to work as I grow and change. Everyone is actively trying to achieve vendor lock in. It's true for Evernote, OneNote, Notion - and all the other things too. To make it worse, none of them are better than pen and paper. I want the ability, from my desktop to clip sections of pages, capture pages, annotate them, etc. I want to have the…

You've just described the problem of all technical products that are designed under the auspice of producing a profit for its investors. I simply call it babel-tower building, as it's the earliest and simplest metaphorical example of what happens when Turing-complete languages interact with ergodic, evolutionary human incentive. Namely, differing incentives create Balkanizing forces in information processing and human trade; it's the creation of a disaster in slow-motion, and one in which the outcome will be worse for all parties than if cooperation was involved.

Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

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Post by dhimes »

masc98 wrote: post #10
d3nj4l wrote: post #5

A recent thread about a similar product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004588 Personally, I think just those limits make this a non-starter for me. 30 resources per topic over 250 topics is a total of just 7.5k links, which is nothing. Charging $19.99 a year for that (and that's introductory pricing!) is insanity, especially when there's free bookmarking tools, some of which are even open source or self host…

Thank you for your comment. It may sound a coincidence but I've updated the pricing and bundle limits (there was a typo in the pro 30 instead of 130..) just some minutes ago. Have a good day!

I'm a little confused: do you store a copy of the information/page, or just a link to it?

Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

#44

Post by cik »

dhimes wrote: post #41
cik wrote: post #28

The problem I find with this entire segment of the industry - is that nothing seems to work as I grow and change. Everyone is actively trying to achieve vendor lock in. It's true for Evernote, OneNote, Notion - and all the other things too. To make it worse, none of them are better than pen and paper. I want the ability, from my desktop to clip sections of pages, capture pages, annotate them, etc. I want to have the…

Does Rocketbook have OCR now? I used them when they first came out but the lack of OCR limited what I would use them for. I just tried to start the app after reading your comment and apparently I have to log in or something and I have no idea how to do that. It was such a cool idea that it's a shame that it never quite got its act together.

They do - though it no longer solves any of my other needs. I use their whiteboard sticker things so that I can have pictures immediately go into a OneDrive, Google Docs, or email destination. That they solidly got right and it's one of my favourite things.

Admittedly, with the android share button, it's not really that useful, though I love it.

Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

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Post by jamesrr39 »

Looks nice!

I wrote a chrome extension for natural language searching of bookmarks a while ago (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bookmark-search/fc...), I like your grouping of topics though (so you can see everything in the topic, not just the search results).

I don't really understand the comments complaining about the pricing; there's a free version, or the paid versions are really not that expensive. If I find myself wanting something more than bookmarks for links, $3/$10 a year seems fine to me for the productivity gain.

Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

#46

Post by d3nj4l »

masc98 wrote: post #10
d3nj4l wrote: post #5

A recent thread about a similar product: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24004588 Personally, I think just those limits make this a non-starter for me. 30 resources per topic over 250 topics is a total of just 7.5k links, which is nothing. Charging $19.99 a year for that (and that's introductory pricing!) is insanity, especially when there's free bookmarking tools, some of which are even open source or self host…

Thank you for your comment. It may sound a coincidence but I've updated the pricing and bundle limits (there was a typo in the pro 30 instead of 130..) just some minutes ago. Have a good day!

Congrats on your launch! The current limits are better, but having any limits at all on the top tier is kind of tough to buy into, because it's easy to wonder what I'll do if I run out of space after a while. I'd either have to create another account and pay for another subscription there, doubling my bill and splitting my workspace. If you think unlimited links for your current pricing is too generous, don't be afraid to set up a higher tier with truly unlimited capacity - if people like your product, they will almost certainly pay that.

Re: K-Stash: A search engine for your useful links – for devs and researchers

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Post by zorbash »

goleary wrote: post #40
zorbash wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm working on yet another alternative, which we're about to launch: https://www.tefter.io/teams/free-trial We charge 39$/month flat, no limitations on the number of users, links, lists. The domain of bookmarking is definitely crowded, but we're focusing providing a solution where you forget you're dealing with bookmarks. With our browser extension, you can quickly jump between tabs, search you history and bookmarks…

Cool! My biggest complaint about golinks is the lack of a command activated search...looks like you're tackling that problem.

Yeah, with our implementation of golinks, we quickly discovered that people tend to forget golinks they set. Is it go/docs or go/doc for example.

So, with our /go command in the browser extension, all the golinks are listed and the user can use the autocomplete to find they one they need.

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