That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!
Thanks for checking it out!
I manage a multi-author blog, and I've tried lots of different ways to share story ideas with the authors. This provides an easy way to send out the day's reading.
Whatever revenue model you need to make this viable long-term, I hope it works out. I'd gladly pay a subscription price for this service.
One idea for an integration would be with Pinboard. I use read later on pinboard, and would love to have those sent to me this way.
We started off with a similar idea to linkdrop but then thought there's more to bookmarking than that.
So a user may subscribe to a variety of feeds and users, https://tefter.io/~hackernews is of course one of them and have a personalised newsfeed. From the newsfeed posts can be bookmarked and kept in a "weekend reads" list. Bookmarks can be marked as read. However bookmarks can be easily added from any devise, since we offer browser extensions, mobile and desktop apps, slack integration. One can also import from pocket or pinboard.
Concerning newsletters, we thought they may be annoying. Imagine waking up on a Sunday to an email telling you to read stuff. We're trying to stay in the spirit of HN, sending as little notifications as possible. Our users have better things to do and their attention is important.
Thanks for the feedback!
Small nitpick: The fields for sign up and create account are the same and should carry over if you switch between the two. For example I entered my email & pass to log in but mean to sign up and had to enter the info twice.
I have some ideas in this field and while I don't execute on them this looks like a good option. :D
Congratulations!
Building this was more about learning how to build a chrome extension, but I think this might work even better as a tool on top of pocket. Given the interest this is getting + the other conversation about bookmarks I might take on the Pocket+ thing next.
Thanks for checking it out!
- let me press a button in my browser ("lottery" or "Russian roulette") and just open a random link (from my bookmarks) immediately in the current tab; I'm not interested in emails, but I'm interested in getting inspired sometimes, exactly when I want it and how much I want it :)
- if it could also load bookmarks/favourites from HN & lobste.rs
- as other said, working on Firefox :)
Minor nitpick: There's a type in the /about page:
> I want to change the time I recieve (->receive) my drop
But you just set up zapier to link new bookmarks to airtable, then use the digest zapier trigger to weekly/daily send a list of all the new links sent to airtable via gmail or the zapier email action.
You can also link this with Mailchimp for a bigger newsletter too (which is in the paywalled tutorial)
I'm working on introducing "read it later" features (à la Pocket/Instapaper), annotations, discovery of relevant content via RSS and re-discovery of content already bookmarked (which is what I liked about Link Drop).
