Don't know the history of it but I didn't see a revenue model and they ended up pivoting around for something that would make money. Seems like there are certain ideas which are destined to be great services but not great businesses. We should figure out a way to put them into the public demesne where they can be collectively supported in a non-profit way, rather than see them die off after unsuccessful pivots
So people talking about this is exciting!
Same thing, free, work like pinboard.in
As someone who is a heavy user of Pinboard and has had Elixir on my 'to learn properly after dabbling' list for a while, looks like a great project to explore.
DNSSEC for the .ht TLD was fixed after our demand (through Gandi).
You might as well enable it for your domain!
Tongue in cheek but seriously I'm looking for a project like this but it's impossible to do anything with it at the moment.
In.ht looks great though!
Tags and folders aren't even close to solve the problem of surfacing bookmarked links when they're needed.
And the only way to fix this, is to have them integrated into search. "You're looking for how to do X? Here's what I found on the internet. Also, you bookmarked these links about this topic, so check them out."
That, or a RAG based solution.
I think that's an overstatement. I use tags regularly to find bookmarks in Pinboard. They work well since the content was curated by myself. I can find categories of links which can be further filtered into subcategories, etc., until I usually find what I want. It's a great way to have a collection of things I found interesting at some point, and tags and full-text search are useful enough to find them again when I need to.
Would I like a RAG type of interface over my bookmarks? Sure. But it's absolutely not required to have a good experience.
However, with the disadvantage that I do not use the search in the browser, but the search of the operating system.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38421121
Also adding that Markdownload is awesome.
I think a better system wouod be one where the bookmark stores either the "link source", i.e. backlink to the site you found the bookmarked link on, or the "search term", I.e. what you were specifically looking for when you bookmarked the page.
Specifically for things like "future miracle cure for X" or trials. Like "what happened with the Panama Papers"? Then you'd get a full dossier of articles, links, comments etc. It may require some standardized way to link news article together.
Maybe someone here knows if anything like this exists already? I've taken a look at some of the options out there, but didn't end up trying them because it seemed like they didn't do anything like this, and were more focused on simply storing bookmarks (and maybe sharing them with upvotes, but nothing for conversation).
Would love to give you an invite! I think my email is in my profile, if not my DMs on Twitter are open (@TheOisinMoran).
I also just added this to my "lynkmi adjacent" tag too for other related ones to check out: https://lynkmi.com/oisin/lynkmi%20adjacent
Raindrop is nice since it works in browser and as a phone app - so it truly is a single bookmarking tool. I mostly use it for search purposes, bookmarking things I may want to find again in a few years.
I rarely look at my Archivebox, but it's nice to know it's there with offline copies if I ever want them.
[1] Example : https://pinboard.in/t:bookmark
