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I unironically think social bookmarking is a missing product. Not because it doesn't exist, but because nothing has gained enough mindshare and momentum to be d
by sanderjd 4y ago
I unironically think social bookmarking is a missing product. Not because it doesn't exist, but because nothing has gained enough mindshare and momentum to be dominant and widely used.
- Moissanite 4y agoStumbleUpon used to be a kind of answer to this. I'd love to have it back, particularly if the contents could be curated (eg "show me a random link which has been featured on the front page of HN or lobste.rs in the last month")
- worldsayshi 4y agoIf somebody can figure out a note/link app that becomes as easy to manage when you're adding your first note as when you're adding your thousandth note then such services will stop dying out.
- sanderjd 4y agoYes, I loved that era of the web!
- krazydad 4y agodelicio.us was pretty great in it’s day
- coliveira 4y agoThe problem is not to be dominant, it is that there was no money to be made in this type of website. These sites come and go, it is very difficult to monetize them.
- sodimel 4y agoI think it's great that there's no giant making money on top of this concept. It lets people do whatever they want to store and share links :)
- sanderjd 4y agoYes but it means there is no one thing that all the people I want to follow all use. Everyone ends up in their own sandbox. Network effects are really useful and positive sum, I think. And there are very few things like Wikipedia that both have the benefit of being dominant and not monetized. Are there any other examples at all?
- 0x445442 4y agoI’m very close to having an old Delicious style site ready. Do you think people would pay $1 a month?
- johnchristopher 4y agoDepends what you get beside storing links I suppose (cached version of content, super smart search function not limited to og: and metadata tags, super privacy, bridges to-do app maybe ?, android app + ff ext. + chr. ext. + apple thingies for ubiquitous access to links, etc.). I could see myself dropping ~10bucks a year like for bitwarden.
- sanderjd 4y agoNot at first, at least, in my opinion, if crowdsourcing is what makes it useful. If the network effects are what makes a product useful, a subscription fee pushes against the growth of that network.
- ghaff 4y agoFolksonomies was one of the terms used back in the day when delicio.us was one of the current hotnesses. I still use pinboard and it's handy. But, like RSS, this sort of thing mostly appeals to researchers/analysts/journalists/etc. The average person mostly doesn't care about saving and even loosely organizing a lot of information.
- kcb 4y agoPinterest?
- sanderjd 4y agoI don't think so? But Pinterest makes no sense to me so maybe it is this and I just don't get it?
- aprdm 4y agoIsn’t that Reddit ?
- sanderjd 4y agoNope.
- incanus77 4y agoDel.icio.us was a big deal ~15 years ago. I made a Mac client for it (Pukka) that sold pretty well and the service was much talked-about in tech circles, not just for researchers. This was in the early era of social networking as a whole ("Web 2.0") as well as this idea of "wisdom of crowds" for emergent context to bubble up from public tagging.
- sanderjd 4y agoYep. I was there for and loved all that era. But nobody ever figured out a sustainable business model for it. Pity.
- manuelmoreale 4y agoI know it's not exactly what you're describing but a somewhat comparable option is https://www.are.na https://www.are.na