by vasanthv on 3/22/24, 12:28 PM with 75 comments
by piterrro on 3/22/24, 2:29 PM
To this day, I regret that I did not pursue it and transformed into something bigger.
Congrats on the launch, what catches my attention is the simplicity. Keep it like this for long enough and you will get many users.
[1]http://ratemystartup.com/save-links-with-one-click-miitla-co...
by justusthane on 3/22/24, 3:08 PM
- I like the no-nonsense landing page, but what I'd like more is to be able to see what the product actually looks like without having to sign up. At least screenshots, but a demo would be nice.
- I'm looking to migrate away from Pinboard, but I like how you can see all of a user's bookmarks (e.g: https://pinboard.in/u:justusthane) unless they mark them private. I get that the point of Webtag is it's private by default, but it would also be cool if this was an option.
by thinking_banana on 3/22/24, 5:34 PM
Thanks and nice work
by tandav on 3/22/24, 3:50 PM
by avinassh on 3/22/24, 4:22 PM
I noticed it uses MongoDB. That seems like an overkill to me, have you considered SQLite?
if you are open to taking feature requests:
- ability to add random notes
- any submitted link should be captured in archive / wayback machine
- (complicated) search within the submitted links content
by zhuxx on 3/24/24, 2:42 PM
by tzury on 3/23/24, 4:45 AM
by jchook on 3/23/24, 2:24 AM
Here are some features I love about Pinboard.in that you could consider adding to Webtag as it grows:
- iOS/Android share extension, so I can easily bookmark anything from my mobile device. This is crucial for me as the friction is reduced enough that I will actually bookmark things and helps me keep everything in one place.
- Auto-complete tags, boy is this handy.
- Use AI to guess tags that I can easily add with a click. See this browser extension for an example: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/pinboard-plus/mphdp...
- A description field that will auto-populate with my highlighted text or default to the site's metadata description. This helps a lot for finding things again without having to stuff a lot of text in an unwieldy title. In the search, I can vaguely describe what I'm looking for and often find it again.
- Semantic search. Pinboard doesn't have this but it could become the holy grail of bookmarking services by adding it. So often I have moments where I recall something I read years ago, but cannot remember the exact wording or how to find it again in a verbatim search function.
- Archival of bookmarks. Even merely automatically submitting the page to an archival site would suffice. The bookmark app I wrote uses a headless browser to save an MHTML file plus yt-dlp to fetch media, but it doesn't have the above features so I don't use it, ha.
- Server-side rendering. The little loading animation is just enough to make the site feel slow and almost defeats your goal of a dead-simple UI. Edit: Also I am seeing 600-700ms response times on the bookmarks endpoint.
For your homepage, I would recommend adjusting the wording on "Plain-text-based bookmarking. No fancy images or graphics." Coming from Pinboard, I was unsure what this meant exactly. At first I wondered if the service archived only the text of bookmarked pages like a "reader mode" feature, especially with the "no limits on storage" note. Also it's not literally plain-text in the typical sense (e.g. .txt files or plain-text accounting). It's just a clean UI. Maybe say "Simple text-only UI" or similar.
On the logged-in menu, I would change "Home" to "My Bookmarks" or similar.
It might be helpful to communicate to prospective users how you plan to fund the project long-term. When selecting a bookmarking service, reliability and longevity are going to be top factors. Free forever, no business plan, etc do not inspire that kind of confidence.
Overall, it's a great start. I wish you luck!
by oneeyedpigeon on 3/22/24, 7:23 PM
by JMiao on 3/22/24, 11:44 PM
by fraencko on 3/22/24, 3:55 PM
by huhtenberg on 3/22/24, 5:25 PM
by 911e on 3/22/24, 6:42 PM
by flanbiscuit on 3/22/24, 6:26 PM
by jxy on 3/22/24, 3:10 PM
$ cat ~/.w3m/bookmark.html
<html><head><title>Bookmarks</title></head>
<body>
<h1>Bookmarks</h1>
<h2>Searches</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://www.google.com/">Google</a>
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</ul>
<h2>Time Sink</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/">Hacker News</a>
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</ul>
</body>
</html>by hidelooktropic on 3/22/24, 2:38 PM
by selmetwa on 3/22/24, 5:29 PM
I actually worked on a similar project centered around social bookmarking; https://huntergather.website/.
by pwillia7 on 3/22/24, 6:25 PM
by severine on 3/22/24, 3:06 PM
Related: does anyone know if there's any limit to synced bookmarks/history in Firefox?
by renegat0x0 on 3/22/24, 3:57 PM
https://github.com/rumca-js/Django-link-archive
You can self host it.
You can add RSS sources and auto import new links regularly.
It may not be stare of the art, but gets the job done.
Demo below, but may not be working when you look at it. It runs on raspberry pi.
by TehShrike on 3/22/24, 2:51 PM
by jrm4 on 3/22/24, 7:49 PM
Usually I really like plain text instead of dbs, but the killer here for me, I realize, is that I'm not tied to any one method of input OR output. Mainly, I do adding through a bookmarklet, and retrieval through "bukuserver," a self-hosted web thing. But also, I have the option of the command line (for bulk adding) as well as browser addons and other things, and (I use Syncthing) it doesn't matter "where" the db is, either on my machine or hosted on a vps.
by dsp_person on 3/22/24, 3:21 PM
just need a BBD module (bookmark block device) and boom free unlimited disk backups
by accrual on 3/22/24, 2:39 PM
by idlewords on 3/22/24, 10:01 PM
No way that could backfire.
by darekkay on 3/22/24, 11:17 PM
The bookmarks are stored in one or more YAML files, and static-marks generates a single web page on build.