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An image bookmarking app that can suggest similar images is a genuinely useful thing. That allows a user to rapidly collate a set of images based on some theme

An image bookmarking app that can suggest similar images is a genuinely useful thing. That allows a user to rapidly collate a set of images based on some theme (so for example I use it for design/illustration projects). Despite the UI, it works, and I can't think of any other apps that do the same thing and have a better UI, so :shrug:. However I'd still agree with you 100% on its cancerous nature: it's an app with a limited, specialised use (emphasis on app). That app leaking and pissing all over search results is not at all good and, as you say, contributes nothing for most people. By analogy, if I have some todos saved in a todo app, what would be gained (or more tellingly who would gain) by making my todos appear in public search results? Best answer I've got is simply that advertisers want that data, and want users on that app to advertise to (so, fuck you, users of search who were expecting useful search results).

systemvoltage 6y ago
Wanna start one? There is an interesting overlap between submission of links (HN/Reddit/Lobster), bookmarking them (Del.icio.us), image based collections (Pinterest), and push-pull feeds (RSS/Feedreader).
- RobertKerans 6y ago
  Yes, I think that would be a good project. I think the major hurdle is that the thing that makes it useful is an extremely large bank of images, and ability to share within the app. So that implies a social aspect, and then that needs to be gated off from search results This has existed several times before -- this is very vague because I'd forgotten about until now, but the one I used to use in the early 2010s (?) was an invitation-only site with very simple UI, almost bare HTML (similar to pinboard), a weird name and a logo that was I think a gorilla. Used to have very high quality results, albeit highly focussed on art/design, with a small, dedicated user base Edit: it was FFFFOUND!, shuttered in 2017 (Pinterest seems to have killed most of those sites, so how does one go about breaking that monopoly?)

systemvoltage 6y ago

Wanna start one? There is an interesting overlap between submission of links (HN/Reddit/Lobster), bookmarking them (Del.icio.us), image based collections (Pinterest), and push-pull feeds (RSS/Feedreader).

RobertKerans 6y ago
Yes, I think that would be a good project. I think the major hurdle is that the thing that makes it useful is an extremely large bank of images, and ability to share within the app. So that implies a social aspect, and then that needs to be gated off from search results This has existed several times before -- this is very vague because I'd forgotten about until now, but the one I used to use in the early 2010s (?) was an invitation-only site with very simple UI, almost bare HTML (similar to pinboard), a weird name and a logo that was I think a gorilla. Used to have very high quality results, albeit highly focussed on art/design, with a small, dedicated user base Edit: it was FFFFOUND!, shuttered in 2017 (Pinterest seems to have killed most of those sites, so how does one go about breaking that monopoly?)