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> There is clearly a market: pinboard.io, lots of positive feedback for raindrop.io, and I see bookmarking tool threads on HN very frequently. > Often, people
by darekkay 6y ago
> There is clearly a market: pinboard.io, lots of positive feedback for raindrop.io, and I see bookmarking tool threads on HN very frequently.
> Often, people ask me "why should I use this instead of x product?" I don't have a good answer: except that I like mine better
I think that sums it up. If your product doesn't offer anything unique, I might as well take one of the 100 bookmarking tools out there. Yeah, the market is there, so is the tooling. Just have a look at this list [1] - what makes your bookmark manager special?
I have written my own bookmark manager [2], and it provides a unique feature that I haven't seen anywhere else (a single HTML file is being generated, with the whole app included, so it can be easily shared without hosting it anywhere). I'm dog-fooding this project at my job and many people find it useful. Still, I've noticed early that it will be very difficult to market, so it remains an open-source project.
I'm closely following bookmarking discussions (hence also seeing your post :) ). One trend I've noticed is that most people like a "dumpster"-like pinboard solution more than any folder-like tool like yours or mine. So that's another factor that makes our approach more difficult to market.
> Put together a landing page
One point I recommend changing is the headline/subheadline. The main benefit, "essential bookmarking for teams", is 14px light gray. Make it much more prominent. Make it even part of the main headline. The light gray doesn't pass accessibility contrast ratio by the way - this applies to all the heavy light gray usage. It makes it difficult to read.
Is it possible to provide a live demo for your app? Maybe a demo/demo account?
BTW - the "take the tour" link in the footer scrolls the page to the top, not the "tour" part.
I hope your project takes off :)
[1] https://serafin.io/bookmark-managers/ https://serafin.io/bookmark-managers/
[2] https://darekkay.com/static-marks/ https://darekkay.com/static-marks/