Show HN: Fav.sh – a bookmark manager with Gist integration

2 pointsglvn6y ago1 comments

A while back I saw a post on ProductHunt from Evernote Design promoting their bookmarks for designers (https://www.evernote.design/). Around the same time, I saw another collection of bookmarks for developers (don't remember what it was exactly but it was just like Evernote Design). At the time I thought it was really cool but it irked me a bit that all these bookmark collections used their own UI or were just thrown up on Github in the form of an awesome list.

I thought to myself, wouldn't it be great if there was a tool that could be used for these bookmarks, rather than having to build a UI to display them. I looked around and while I found several online solutions all had 2 major issues:

1. They were mostly aimed at scrapbooking, emphasizing visual over just displaying the data.

2. All required an account with the app and the app-controlled your data. If the app goes away in the future, so do your bookmarks.

So in response, I created fav.sh. Fav.sh lets you create bookmarks and keep them in your browsers local storage and then lets you either backup/restore your data via JSON upload/download or backing up to Github Gist. I tried to make it as agnostic as possible, opting for bookmarklets to achieve things like adding a bookmark or popping open a mini-window rather than a browser-extension approach. In addition, you can quickly share any created bookmarks.

Check it out if you're interested:

Main Site:

https://fav.sh

App:

https://app.fav.sh

Example of a shared bookmark collection (the guidon the end is a gist ID): https://app.fav.sh/view/ae2c91fda599f907cf157bf45631bccb

I'd love to hear from you guys in ways I can improve it.

1 comments

darekkay6y ago

> 1. They were mostly aimed at scrapbooking, emphasizing visual over just displaying the data. > 2. All required an account with the app and the app-controlled your data. If the app goes away in the future, so do your bookmarks.

I know that pain, so I've written an open-source tool myself, that is neither of those [1].

I like your approach, except for two things: A single bookmark takes a lot of space. If I have 100+ bookmarks, the scrolling will become really tedious. I'm also missing a search to quickly find a certain bookmark.

[1] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/

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