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That's really nifty, but also seems something that can be hacked in a day. Create a script to fetch the articles contents, and reformat it into a index that can
by rootsudo 10y ago
That's really nifty, but also seems something that can be hacked in a day. Create a script to fetch the articles contents, and reformat it into a index that can be searched.
I like the idea of pinboard. I want to copy it. But, I also want to be lazy.
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- criddell 10y agoPinboard is $11 for a year. There are a million things I'd like to cobble together and I'm happy to cross one off my list in exchange for $11. I wish there were more services like Pinboard - useful, inexpensive, reliable. Too often it's a pick-two situation.
- nebabyte 10y agoTo each their own :)
- criddell 10y agoNo argument on that from me. The other part of the equation for me is that $1 / month seems like the correct price for a useful service. I think Pinboard has something like 20,000 users. If they are all paying $1 / month (I have no idea if they are), then it feels like a sustainable business.
- idlewords 10y agoIt's something like that (I'm not being coy, I just haven't run the numbers). It comes out to $200K/year on ~$15K of operating expenses. More people should run niche sites! A vanilla Flickr reboot, for example, is a livelihood waiting to happen.
- nebabyte 10y agoImage hosting is so much heavier
- nebabyte 10y agoOther than the archival for $25, I don't see what I'd pay for that my own bookmarks don't already get me. And the archival itself is likely only useful for stuff other people have already archived anyways; in the rare instances I find something I definitely want to ensure I have a copy of, I can usually find a way to get a copy onto my local machine and NAS.
- criddell 10y agoThat's a little like saying you don't subscribe to Amazon Prime because you don't shop at Amazon. Nobody is suggesting you subscribe to a service that provides no value.