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WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites
- garbowza 19y agoExcellent product and I'm looking forward to seeing all the new features the WebMynd guys have in store! Congrats.
- thingsilearned 19y agowoot! Way to go guys!
- ivankirigin 19y agoThe visual history slider is really, really slick.
- yters 19y agoNice idea, like my own personal google. Is there a way to download the history from their servers? Can I also upload my bookmarks, google history, etc?
- immad 19y agoI thought they store it on your harddrive atm
- nickb 19y agoExtension transfers you to www.webmynd.com/reel when you click the brain icon... it does not work without net connection.
- ptm 19y agoyes they do, and the data size does bloat up rather alarmingly ... I used it for around an hour and the directory size is 50Mb now.
- nickb 19y agoIt seems to be stored in [path o FF prefs]/ScrapBook folder. But you can't view the stuff without being online :( Hope this is fixed soon.
- ryan 19y agoCongrats on the launch guys. Great work!
- bfioca 19y agoGrats guys! Great work in such a short time. Your launch has kicked me into higher gear working on our next release...
- nickb 19y agoCool! But I wish there was a way to store all the pages locally instead of on a website. When I travel, I'd like to be able to go through my pages without going on the web.
- ivankirigin 19y agoI think the images are local. They mentioned on techcrunch that they'll be making an offline app. http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/26/webmynd-could-change-the-way-you-bookmark-websites/#comment-1943852 http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/26/webmynd-could-change-th...
- nickb 19y agoForget about images, I'd like to have a full text search like the latest Opera 9.5 has... that would be super cool!
- mattmaroon 19y agoYou guys have a bright future. Congrats on having a solid business model right off the bat.
- cosmok 19y agoWell, I have developed something similar (all your history is stored in a Database in YOUR sever). It is a free package.Check it out here: http://history.sansj.com http://history.sansj.com
- whacked_new 19y agoThis sounds just like a spiced-up ScrapBook http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/ http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
- inovica 19y agoI appreciate this is a YCombinator start-up, so apologies for being a little negative. Firstly I think the app itself looks good, but I visit a lot of sites and I was alarmed at the space being taken up after just a couple of hours of use. Also, I don't want to remember everything - just some sites. Currently I use Furl for this and it works well for me. Click one button and the page is saved into Furl - and fully searchable also. I appreciate that this WebMynd looks slicker, but having this kind of option for me would be better than saving everything
- myoung8 19y agocool, but this is another echo-chamber "non-product"
- some 19y agoWhen I was making fun of Xobni some months ago, I said the next product of this kind would be "a browser plugin that lets you search your bookmarks": http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56422 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56422 No its here and its called WebMynd. Alright. Just for the record, here is my prediction: No one will use or remember this project in 2 years.
- kashif 19y agoWell, it doesn't seem to work for linux systems. So I can't try it. Bookmarking is a very real problem for me and I wouldn't mind paying, say, $10 a year for a good tool. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell your tool won't solve the problem. Atleast that's what I can tell without being able to try it.
- kashif 19y agoI am curious why this got funded though, there is just no barrier to entry, actually, I have no clue why PG funds some of the stuff he does - Fuzzwich is an example. Anyway, I suppose he knows things I don't.
- webwright 19y agoWhat's the barrier to entry to Digg or Twitter? Or Flickr? Investor tend to fund TEAMS and MARKETS - not products. The idea pitched in the interview (I imagine) is just to see if you've found an interesting, big, or underserved market and whether you are capable of having and recognizing good ideas.
- kashif 19y agoDigg, Twitter and Flickr all have a 'relatively' higher barrier to entry. To run any of these services you require a fairly substantial investment. This is not true for bookmarking extensions. Also this logic about investing in Teams and Markets - not products is faulty. This kind of thinking is what causes a bubble. If a team is good, part of it shows in the product they choose to build.
- webwright 19y agoI don't often say this, but you're just plain wrong. The reason to invest in teams and markets is because products change dramatically and often in early stage startups. Here's a quote from Fred Wilson (one of the top consumer VCs, in terms of performance): aEURoeaEUR|Of the 26 companies that I consider realized or effectively realized in my personal track record, 17 of them made complete transformations or partial transformations of their businesses between the time we invested and the time we sold. That means there a 2/3 chance youaEURXll have to significantly reinvent your business between the time you take a venture capital investment and when you exit your business.aEURX Regarding barrier to entry, I believe that phrase refers to the difficulty in starting the business-- not running it once it's successful. Of course Flickr and Digg are expensive to run at this point. But a good hacker or three could duplicate the core featureset in a few hard weeks of coding.
- PStamatiou 19y agoI don't like having everything saved to disk. Hence why I so often use Safari's private browsing feature.
- apgwoz 19y agoyou mean there are more legitimate uses to that feature than browsing pr0n?