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Hey there, I'm one of the earliest users of Delicious who recently built a modern bookmarking platform. It's called Kozmos (https://getkozmos.com https://getko

Hey there, I'm one of the earliest users of Delicious who recently built a modern bookmarking platform. It's called Kozmos (https://getkozmos.com https://getkozmos.com). It's a competitor to Pinboard, and its difference is simplifying bookmarking into one heart button, I mean you don't need to fill forms to bookmark a page anymore. It has an advanced search engine that makes you find whatever you're looking for. I self-funded this project and worked on it past three months. If you are curious about how it looks, you can see this blog post; https://medium.com/@azerbike/introducing-kozmos-a-new-bookmarking-platform-75f4df448ccc https://medium.com/@azerbike/introducing-kozmos-a-new-bookma... My vision for this project is to not just build a bookmarking platform, to innovate further based on bookmarking.

5_minutes 9y ago
This looks nicely executed with some fresh ideas. Good luck!
- roadbeats 9y ago
  thanks!
joshmanders 9y ago
Hey Azer! Was wondering what you've been up to, I couldn't remember what your name was, always be #leftpadgate guy to me. Gonna check out your service.
- roadbeats 9y ago
  Let me know what you think!
vit05 9y ago
Looks cool. And I was thinking about how a better experience to bookmark could reshape how I use the browser now. Funny how coincidently you went from building a better browser to build a bookmarker. Btw, I used to use Too-Many-Tabs to change from House to Work mode. Now I have 2 logins on Chrome, is there anything like this on kozmos?
- roadbeats 9y ago
  Yes, so glad other people also see what I see. Bookmarking is like the missing piece of current web. I don't have that feature in Kozmos but will keep it in my mind.
rmccue 9y ago
Curious to know, what's your business model? You mention you self-funded, but is the intention to have paid accounts, sell advertising, etc?
- roadbeats 9y ago
  The business model relies on the next versions which will introduce new innovative ideas on top of bookmarking. It'll take some time, I won't rush. Currently the server is AWS free tier so it's not costing me anything. Personally I'm doing contractor to keep my budget healthy.
  - idlewords 9y ago
    Having a business model will get you more users. I'd add it sooner than later.
    - roadbeats 9y ago
      I do have a business model, but not for this version of the app
      - idlewords 9y ago
        Fermat's last business model
mistermann 9y ago
Personally, I absolutely need the option to tag bookmarks, is this supported, or do you have plans to? I imagine pinboard supports this, but when I looked at it something stopped me from pulling the trigger, despite how desperate I am for this type of service.
- roadbeats 9y ago
  Kozmos will support collections soon. So users will be able to organize and publish their links. For tagging, it has a different approach. It has tags behind the scenes; reads the tags from the bookmarked page, and adds also additional tags such as the type of content.
  - mistermann 9y ago
    A collection would be like one tag I suspect. And auto tagging is not what I'm looking for that's for sure.

5_minutes 9y ago

This looks nicely executed with some fresh ideas. Good luck!

roadbeats 9y ago
thanks!

joshmanders 9y ago

Hey Azer! Was wondering what you've been up to, I couldn't remember what your name was, always be #leftpadgate guy to me. Gonna check out your service.

roadbeats 9y ago
Let me know what you think!

vit05 9y ago

Looks cool. And I was thinking about how a better experience to bookmark could reshape how I use the browser now. Funny how coincidently you went from building a better browser to build a bookmarker. Btw, I used to use Too-Many-Tabs to change from House to Work mode. Now I have 2 logins on Chrome, is there anything like this on kozmos?

roadbeats 9y ago
Yes, so glad other people also see what I see. Bookmarking is like the missing piece of current web. I don't have that feature in Kozmos but will keep it in my mind.

rmccue 9y ago

Curious to know, what's your business model? You mention you self-funded, but is the intention to have paid accounts, sell advertising, etc?

roadbeats 9y ago
The business model relies on the next versions which will introduce new innovative ideas on top of bookmarking. It'll take some time, I won't rush. Currently the server is AWS free tier so it's not costing me anything. Personally I'm doing contractor to keep my budget healthy.
- idlewords 9y ago
  Having a business model will get you more users. I'd add it sooner than later.
  - roadbeats 9y ago
    I do have a business model, but not for this version of the app
    - idlewords 9y ago
      Fermat's last business model

mistermann 9y ago

Personally, I absolutely need the option to tag bookmarks, is this supported, or do you have plans to? I imagine pinboard supports this, but when I looked at it something stopped me from pulling the trigger, despite how desperate I am for this type of service.

roadbeats 9y ago
Kozmos will support collections soon. So users will be able to organize and publish their links. For tagging, it has a different approach. It has tags behind the scenes; reads the tags from the bookmarked page, and adds also additional tags such as the type of content.
- mistermann 9y ago
  A collection would be like one tag I suspect. And auto tagging is not what I'm looking for that's for sure.