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There are strong critics of free bookmarking sites (@Pinboard in particular). Their main criticism is that without a revenue model, users will eventually lose t
by atroyn 9y ago
There are strong critics of free bookmarking sites (@Pinboard in particular). Their main criticism is that without a revenue model, users will eventually lose their bookmarks.
What's your plan?
- duxup 9y agoI wondered the same thing. I assume I'm the product (my data) if it is free, but the site also talks about privacy.
- roadbeats 9y agoKozmos will be always free for private bookmarking, and there'll be a paid account for creating public collections in the second phase. Copying the details from my another comment here; "The second phase of Kozmos will have "public collections", for example, we will be able to create a "Best Boutique Hotels in Istanbul" collection, and this will be only available for paid users. This is Kozmos' business model but I haven't explained it in the site, because collections aren't implemented yet."
- atroyn 9y agoWho is the target customer for this feature? Do I pay to make collections, to view them, or both? If I have to pay to view them, what would make me want to do that? If I have to pay to make them, why would I want to?
- roadbeats 9y agoOnly to create. They'll be public and available for anyone (user or not user). My target market for collections is Pinterest users.
- atroyn 9y agoBut Pinterest users don't pay anything to make collections?
- roadbeats 9y agoThat's why it's full of low quality content and spam :)
- zem 9y agoi stopped using pinterest because they stopped displaying anything unless you were logged in. they are clearly using it as a mechanism to drive sign-ups, though - do you have any similar but less annoying plans to exploit network effects?
- sondr3 9y agoPinboard isn't free though, you have to pay to even join and start using it.
- idlewords 9y agoThe other reason for charging (even a nominal amount) is to remove the spam problem. That was the only reason I originally charged money for Pinboard. Good luck!
- 5_minutes 9y agoGood argument, though pinboard has it's share of spam too. A good example is this one: https://pinboard.in/t:mac https://pinboard.in/t:mac Codez4Mac is always "just submitted". It's been like this for years. All from- https://pinboard.in/u:simensol/ https://pinboard.in/u:simensol/ Or look here: https://pinboard.in/t:app https://pinboard.in/t:app All the junk posts from heyyouapp, starting with "paid" I find it a pity that these obvious annoyance things for us users, don't get fixed at all. It really polutes the site and I can't imagine these things to be incredibly complex to circumvent, in the whole system that Pinboard is. Too busy taking baths filled with gold?
- idlewords 9y agoYou can just report this stuff and I'll fix it. The top users seems to have misconfigured something, or else is posting from the far future. I like spammers a lot because I can take their $11 and then shut down their account. Unfortunately, I don't get many.