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Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

#1
Hi HN,

[yorgos_kats][1] posted [My Screen Break][2], which looks really nice! People sent me messages about it because it has a lot in common with what I'm working on: [Walden Pond][3] ( https://WaldenPond.press ).

You connect your [Pocket][4] account, and once a month you get a printed magazine. You can subscribe for 1, 2 or 4 hours of reading time. I got my 7th one on [Monday this week][5].

We deliver anywhere in the world, except Antarctica.

It has been a pandemic project to build it as a "real" product, but I've been making these zines for my friends for a bit over 2 years now. This means that I've come across and fixed an amazing number of edge cases!

I initially started building it because I couldn't find anything that did the job. I've since turned up [Quarto][6] by [Elan Kiderman][7], which is similar; [newspaperclub.com][8] had a product that did something along these lines but using their presses, and as [jamez][9] noted in the replies to [yorgos_kats][1] post, [Memeoirs][10]; and [pulp][11] by [Outofthebot][12], but that's shut down.

The pagination is done using [Paged.js][13], and their community has been super helpful. It's amazing what can be done with the holy trinity of HTML, CSS & JS.

If you want to see some pictures of the physical thing, take a look at [Instagram][14] and [Twitter][15].

  [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=yorgos_kats
  [2]: https://myscreenbreak.com
  [3]: https://WaldenPond.press
  [4]: http://getpocket.com/
  [5]: https://twitter.com/notionparallax/status/1313313422499483648?s=20
  [6]: https://elankiderman.com/quarto/
  [7]: http://elankiderman
  [8]: https://newspaperclub.com
  [9]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=jamez
  [10]: https://www.jamez.it/project/memeoirs/
  [11]: https://getpulp.io/
  [12]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=Outofthebot
  [13]: https://www.pagedjs.org/
  [14]: https://www.instagram.com/waldenpondzine/
  [15]: https://twitter.com/WaldenPondZine

Re: Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

#2
Your privacy policy is completely blank except for the phrase "WIP", which isn't very reassuring. [0]

On the other hand, I like how with your Terms of Service, you have the actual terms in one column and then summarize/simplify them in a second column. [1]

[0] https://waldenpond.press/privacy [1] https://waldenpond.press/tos

Re: Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

#3
post #2

Your privacy policy is completely blank except for the phrase "WIP", which isn't very reassuring. [0] On the other hand, I like how with your Terms of Service, you have the actual terms in one column and then summarize/simplify them in a second column. [1] [0] https://waldenpond.press/privacy [1] https://waldenpond.press/tos

Well spotted. I set that page up before I've even started on the rest of the site because I needed it for the auth, and haven't gone back to it. It'll give me something to do this weekend! Thanks for the reminder.

Re: Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

#5

Really cute project, do you have any curated lists or do I have to build my own?

Thanks! We don't have any specifically curated lists yet. We've talked about it a lot though.

There is a mega list of articles that other people have saved here: https://waldenpond.press/2020/08/30/popularity.html

There are also some really good curated lists out there, e.g. https://tetw.org/ to plug the gap for now

Re: Show HN: Saved articles, in a zine, delivered every month

#6

Really cute project, do you have any curated lists or do I have to build my own?

Thanks! We don't have any specifically curated lists yet. We've talked about it a lot though. There is a mega list of articles that other people have saved here: https://waldenpond.press/2020/08/30/popularity.html There are also some really good curated lists out there, e.g. https://tetw.org/ to plug the gap for now

awesome, thank you for the links