I've been using Raindrop.io for a few months as a bookmarking service, and it's wonderful to use. It's similar to Pocket, but provides much more flexibility. Plus, the mini-app extension is great.
I've been building something similar to OP's for my own personal use lately. At the moment I use Raindrop.io as well but the main thing I don't like is (I think because it is a webapp?) switching folders can be very slow, perhaps because it doesn't seem to cache results? Other than it is an awesome product
Fantastic recommendation, thanks :-) Have been using a combination of Pocket for "read later" and pinboard.in for bookmarks - but looks like Raindrop will do both in one place...
Why not Pocket for everything? I have used pocket of over eight years and I no longer organize. I just search when I need it or just browse through on a random Sunday. Seriously Pocket have been great and flawless in every possible integration.
Do the clients encrypt data before sending to the servers (clients are open source though but it's react so I wouldn't have understood anyway) - are they e2ee?
Good work. I've been following Hello Code (the company that makes this) and Exist (another app of theirs) as well as your podcast for a few years now, nice to see you're making 5 figures MRR!
How is this different from Pocket which has better integration and is free? If the tool can automatically organize all my bookmarks (with some hint here and there), that would be much easier.
Workflow can be -
1. Initially, user creates some top-level categories manually. Ex. programming languages, philosophy, art, computer networks, etc.
2. Tool starts filing bookmarks under these top level categories and further creates sub-categories by itself where it's obvious (e.g. under prog lang - python, js, java, etc)
3. Only if the tool is unable to find categories clearly, it should require user's attention.
For #2, tool should use factors like content, tags used by author in article, what type of content website usually posts, etc and generate score. If multiple categories above 90% score, bookmark under all those categories.
How is this different from Pocket which has better integration and is free?
It integrates with Github and Stackoverflow in ways that Pocket doesn't. Not sure how useful that really is, but it's certainly trying to be "for developers".
Great looking app. I tend to setup a table in Notion, and then use the chrome web clipper to add pages to it. Cmd+K and enter is all it takes. Hitting enter again takes me to the page where i can add tags or notes which make them searchable later.
This looks interesting. I’ve been using using Google Custom Search to add programming related bookmarks for git repos, blog posts, and solutions to problems to a private index. The downside is that adding new links to the index is a pain since google doesn’t have an add API. This looks like it could be a good alternative.
Been using Larder for a few years now, does the job pretty well. I’m not sure why their iOS app is perennially in test status, but when I reported bugs they were fixed quickly.
Before that I was a Pinboard user, but it had become unreliable, effectively rotting during the long stretches Maciej dedicated to his other interests.
fwiwi, I use Firefox's bookmarking only. When bookmarking, I add some keyword tags to it though. Later, it would be only a matter of typing _* keywords_ in the address bar.
I'd like to see a similar product but with end-to-end encryption and ability to make written notes, like a single place for both bookmarks and notes. I don't understand why do people separate them.
> On December 16th Yahoo held an all-hands meeting to rally the troops after a big round of layoffs. Around 11 AM someone at this meeting showed a slide with a couple of Yahoo properties grouped into three categories, one of which was ominously called "sunset". The most prominent logo in the group belonged to Delicious, our main competitor. Milliseconds later, the slide was on the web, and there was an ominous thundering sound as every Delicious user in North America raced for the exit.
> I got the message just as I was starting work for the day. My Twitter client, normally a place where I might see ten or twenty daily mentions of Pinboard, had turned into a nonstop blur of updates. My inbox was making a kind of sustained pealing sound I had never heard before. It was going to be an interesting afternoon.
It's hard to even look closer at anything comparable once pinboard has become the main destination for anything bookmark related.
I have been using it for years and since it's API is based on the original Delicious one there is most surely not a single tool out there that does not speak to Pinboard.
While there might be quite a few alternative solutions our there that are feature wise on par with (or better than) Pinboard - the latter one has a proven track record and a positive future outlook.
I was recently going to get a Pinboard subscription, but noticed the price doubled to $22/year. That's still a low price but at the same time I don't see obvious benefits over services I can use for free. This appears to be specialized for developers, so at least after an initial glance, it might be worth $24/year. Plus it comes with a six month trial.
Paying for a bookmark archive should be considered a feature, an archive with no sustainable business model is less of an archive and more like a black hole.
Partly because of that I also subscribe to Pinboards optional archiving of the actual pages bookmarked, so that even if they disappear from the internet I still have a copy from the day I bookmarked it.
