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Show HN: Refjar.com – bookmark links and fetch online discussions
- mdoliwa 8y agoI build it for myself, as I like to read comments sections a lot, and sometimes I have interesting article and would like to read what people think about it. So now I add it to refjar and it fetches discussions from reddit and HN. My public bookmarks list: https://refjar.com/u/mdoliwa/j/bookmarks https://refjar.com/u/mdoliwa/j/bookmarks I'd be very thankful for any feedback about tool/idea.
- otp124 8y agoThis is very cool, and thanks for sharing! One question -- how often does your tool re-scan for new discussions, or does it not re-scan? I see on your public bookmarks, it shows current discussions, it would be cool to see which ones are new since the last time you looked. A further suggestion would be to include a date & star icon on new discussions. Just a thought -- thanks again for sharing!
- mdoliwa 8y agoNow it rescans only number of comments. It starts with n = 15 minutes and schedules next scan in n*2 if there were no new comments or n/2 if there were any. Fetching new discussions after initial scan is in my todo list.
- desireco42 8y agoOnce you sign up, there is no bookmarklet link to save links. You have to log out to be able to access it.
- mdoliwa 8y agoThanks for info, I'll fix this.
- desireco42 8y agoOne more q, if I start using it, I would like to know it will stay and I will not lose my links.
- mdoliwa 8y agoYes, my wife is using it to bookmark her cooking recipies, so it has to stay :). You'll be able to export all your bookmarks to other systems, it's on my todo list. I want it to be a long term project.
- desireco42 8y agoOK, thank you. Hail wife :).
- profalseidol 8y ago> Biblical Series I: Introduction to the Idea of God - YouTube [www.youtube.com] No discussions on this topic huh?
- mdoliwa 8y agoHmm, when I come back from work I'll recheck reddit manually to find any new discussions.
- c0sco 8y agoWhat a wonderful idea. Thanks for sharing. I especially like the ability to tag items and then search on them. Having a feature to edit tags after the fact, or search on them by entering a tag name as opposed to clicking on an existing tag would be really neat. Bug report: I got a 500 when trying to empty the trash of 2 items.
- senthilmpro 8y agoNice Job there. How much it differs from Flipboard / Pocket ?
- mdoliwa 8y agoI used Pocket only, and main way of using it was to discover new things. As I love reading comments it was little annoying to find interesting article and have no information about online discussions about it. Besides that I wanted it to have options to share lists of links by making them public, so my wife could eaisly share her cooking recipies :)
- startupflix 8y agoI wwas thinking about the same concept a few days ago. thanks a lot for creating this. Query: How often it rescans the link to check the new comments?
- mdoliwa 8y agoNow it rescans only number of comments. It starts with n = 15 minutes and schedules next scan in n*2 if there were no new comments or n/2 if there were any. Fetching new discussions after initial scan is in my todo list.
- andrewlouis93 8y agoGreat idea! Do you plan to make it paid at some point - referring to the Sign up and try for free note? The biggest issue I have with bookmarking (apart from a better interface - which your app addresses) is link rot. I think adding a permalink (maybe by default?) would take this to the next level. Perma.cc has a nice API last time I checked :)
- icc97 8y agohttp://pinboard.in/ http://pinboard.in/ offers a paid archiving service. Also Refjar has a somewhat similar interface to Pinboard.
- mdoliwa 8y agoDon't know when and how, but I'd love to make it some kind of lifestyle business. I have it on my todo list, and it could probably be some kind of premium option, I haven't decided yet.
- lohfu 8y agoman, last week i created https://peg.gy https://peg.gy. similar idea when it comes to rating and tagging but no intention of fetching online discussions. it's just a proof of concept for now. i even created a similar bookmarklet to drag to the bookmark bar, but "Peg it" instead of "Jar It"
- dguo 8y agoJust a heads up that according to the React devtools extension, it looks like Peg.gy is running the development build of React in production. It should be easy to fix: https://reactjs.org/docs/optimizing-performance.html#use-the-production-build https://reactjs.org/docs/optimizing-performance.html#use-the...
- lohfu 8y agoyea i know. just a PoC for now, hoping to upload a more functional version with user accounts and stuffs in the coming week.
- rozenmd 8y agoShip early, ship often.
- lohfu 8y agoi tend to lean towards late and rarely
- icc97 8y agoYou can extend it to Twitter too, Arxiv Sanity has a 'Top Hype' section [0]. [0]: http://arxiv-sanity.com/toptwtr http://arxiv-sanity.com/toptwtr
- mdoliwa 8y agoThanks for suggestion.
- blairbeckwith 8y agoThere’s a very useful service for me here beyond bookmarking. I often want do read something and wonder if there has been a Hacker News or reddit thread about it, but don’t necessarily want or need to bookmark it. Any plans to decouple these? I feel like I remember a chrome extension from ages ago that showed hacker news comments for the current page, but I’ve searched a couple times and come up dry.
- mshafer 8y agoI use a very simple Chrome extension which just opens any existing Reddit threads for the current webpage. https://github.com/mshafer/chrome-find-on-reddit https://github.com/mshafer/chrome-find-on-reddit
- mdoliwa 8y agoYeah, I think in future I will decouple these two and extract this feature as a stand alone service.
- sengork 8y agoSo far I've used Chrome extension "HN current page search" which finds both HN and Reddit discussions regarding the page you happen to be on (only if you click the extension does it check). On the other hand once Delicious closed down I've settled in for https://raindrop.io/ https://raindrop.io/
- abrahamks 8y agoGreat app! In the future, is it possible to follow other people and see the top list of bookmarked links? This feels like Twitter + Pocket
- mdoliwa 8y agoYep, I'm thinking about doing some aggregate top links and option to subscribe to lists.
- mraxilus 8y agoIt's almost something I would use everyday, but I don't think bookmarks are the right approach. For example, because reddit comments tend to be higher quality than YouTube comments I use AlienTube for YouTube which replaces a YouTube video's comments with reddit threads (if they exist). I'd want a similar thing for just any article, without having to bookmark what I'm reading (or go to a separate site even). AlienTube chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alientube-for-youtube/opgodjgjgojjkhlmmhdlojfehcemknnp?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/alientube-for-yout...
- quakenul 8y agoI am curious, are you also thinking of a different solution to problem that bookmarks are solving (= keeping track of websites you want to keep track of) or just the social part (in your scenario through reddit comments being injected into any website you visit)?
- mraxilus 8y agoMainly just the social part. I already use a combination of Feedly and IFTTT to save articles of interest.
- ajra 8y agoThis is awesome, I've wanted a tool that shows the HN/Reddit comments on articles for a while now but never got around to making it -- thanks for creating it!