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Show HN: Currl – A free text-based social bookmarking website

123 points by vasanthv 3y ago

mnsc 3y ago
I miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!
- ssss11 3y ago
  I came to write this but you beat me. Kudos :D I loved that site
- ibz 3y ago
  pinboard.in still rocking!
  - mtmail 3y ago
    I thought pinboard.in is not longer maintained? "Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802) There's also a June, August, November edition.
    - altairprime 3y ago
      Reading that thread from December, it looks like Pinboard’s archive service is not in good health, but the core bookmarking service is still operating correctly. I didn’t really remember that Pinboard had an archiving service (delicious didn’t), but yep, that extra component appears to be suffering.
    - kryptiskt 3y ago
      It still works fine for me including archiving. So either it's very resilient or there is maintenance happening.
      - joshmanders 3y ago
        He's stated in past threads that whether it works or not for you depends on what machine your account gets assigned to. So it's not resilient or maintenance, some machines are borked and others aren't. Pray you aren't on the borked machine.
newswasboring 3y ago
It took me solid 2mins to figure out that each text thing is a link. 2 mins i would not give to this site if I had encountered it anyplace other than HN. You might want to do something to make clear what is a link. I am on mobile, using the brave browser.
keithnz 3y ago
maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?
- tempodox 3y ago
  Agreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.
  - ocimbote 3y ago
    I think the pun is "See you, URL", but I agree that it makes it horribly confusing.
    - Bilal_io 3y ago
      But it has a double "r" not double "u"
      - ocimbote 3y ago
        OMG you're right! XD
- omoikane 3y ago
  I remember Firefox spent quite a bit of effort trying to establish themselves as Phoenix or Firebird before eventually settling on Firefox. I hope currl can move on to a new name quickly and build their reputation there, instead of adding confusion to cURL's name.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  curl -io currl.io currl.io
Leires 3y ago
Not for me, but good luck.
qwertox 3y ago
I'd like to see custom css support, like a field to input it, so that I could have one link per line, all very compact.
- criswell 3y ago
  give me apache directory listing styled websites or give me death
entropie 3y ago
I use a similar thing [1], self baked. I have a bookmarklet to bookmark pages but it also downloads image/videos/gfycats and saves them on the server. [1] https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks
toastercat 3y ago
Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just degrade. I need to know I can migrate easily once it happens.
- tuananh 3y ago
  pinboard.in has been around for quite awhile :)
  - replwoacause 3y ago
    That is the exact service that came to mind when I saw the words “abandoned” and “enshittification”.
    - deleted 3y ago
      [deleted]
  - bachmeier 3y ago
    For anyone reading this, consider https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375
  - marcellus23 3y ago
    Pinboard is abandoned. Not just in the sense that no new features have been added in years, but in the sense that existing features are actually broken and are not being fixed, despite still accepting money from customers.
    - glaucon 3y ago
      I feel obliged to point out that the term 'abandoned' might be misinterpreted here. I use pinboard every day, have done so for a decade and it works exactly as intended. The fact that there have been no recent new features troubles me not one jot, my keyboard hasn't had any recent new features either, it just works. Judging by the last time pinboard was mentioned on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802, the 'archive' feature, which is a 'pay extra' feature, causes dissatisfaction amongst some people, I can't comment on that as I don't use it. Pinboard is run by a single person so if you're a user it would be sensible to use the 'export' function from time to time to allow for the owner getting sick etc.
nittanymount 3y ago
a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that could remove some concern... - as the name implied, if you could provide a terminal cli, that will be a plus too.. my 2c...
- vasanthv 3y ago
  That is a great idea. I am gonna add the ability to download bookmarks from the site right away. Thanks
jrm4 3y ago
First of all, this is a great url. In my head it's like "Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this"
mwachs 3y ago
del.icio.us is back!
joshuajill 3y ago
Had my share of free beer for eternity.
- joshuajill 3y ago
  That said, like the barebones design.
deleted 3y ago
[deleted]
Minor49er 3y ago
Simple and straightforward. I like it Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?
- vasanthv 3y ago
  Thank you. Yes RSS is in my radar.
jedberg 3y ago
We've come full circle. :) First there was del.icio.us. Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting". And now we're back to del.icio.us!
- selcuka 3y ago
  > Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting". I believe the original "del.icio.us with voting" was Digg [1]: > Digg also faces competition from other social news services like Reddit, Newsvine, and Netscape, and while none of them has gotten to Digg’s level, it’s still early in the social news race. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20061013230150/http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/09/10/revisiting-top-10-web-predictions-of-2006/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061013230150/http://www.conver...
  - jedberg 3y ago
    The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. Also, Digg didn't have downvotes, which was a key innovation, because technically delicious already had "upvotes" based on how many people bookmarked the same site. And when we visited Digg later on, we (reddit) discovered that we had double their traffic. Digg had better marketing but reddit was bigger for most of it's life.
    - defrost 3y ago
      I suspect one factor in early reddit growth was early promotion on and rapid adoption by many of the (original) freenode IRC crowd (and extended spouses, famil, etc). I recall the days when it was a "proof of concept" single page lisp based site(?) that got taken on as the default place to post links for ranking and persistant comment (alongside other tool sites like pastebin for text content pastes etc.) The early theoretic comp sci posts died off and cats took over, followed by subredits etc .. and here we are :-)
    - selcuka 3y ago
      Sure. I did not imply reddit copied Digg. Just pointing out the fact that Digg was chronologically the first (or at least earlier than reddit). > The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. This is an interesting anecdote as Digg was already big by then (they actually released Digg 2.0 in July 2005, the same month reddit launched).
wopwops 3y ago
Thank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.
bsnnkv 3y ago
Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to work on them. In general though, I've moved on from saving links, and I think saving links and bookmarks doesn't really serve a purpose for me. These days I save highlights and store the links/books/locations as metadata, because I'm more interested in a searchable collection of _what_ I found interesting instead of _where_ I found something interesting (without the context of what that something was). There are some previous discussions[1] on HN about how I achieve this if this way of thinking seems as intuitive to anyone else as it does to me. [1]: Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765
the-printer 3y ago
The community at https://ln.ht https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.
kleicht 3y ago
what is the popularity metric ?
syngrog66 3y ago
bad name

123 points by vasanthv 3y ago

mnsc 3y ago

I miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!

ssss11 3y ago
I came to write this but you beat me. Kudos :D I loved that site
ibz 3y ago
pinboard.in still rocking!
- mtmail 3y ago
  I thought pinboard.in is not longer maintained? "Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802) There's also a June, August, November edition.
  - altairprime 3y ago
    Reading that thread from December, it looks like Pinboard’s archive service is not in good health, but the core bookmarking service is still operating correctly. I didn’t really remember that Pinboard had an archiving service (delicious didn’t), but yep, that extra component appears to be suffering.
  - kryptiskt 3y ago
    It still works fine for me including archiving. So either it's very resilient or there is maintenance happening.
    - joshmanders 3y ago
      He's stated in past threads that whether it works or not for you depends on what machine your account gets assigned to. So it's not resilient or maintenance, some machines are borked and others aren't. Pray you aren't on the borked machine.

newswasboring 3y ago

It took me solid 2mins to figure out that each text thing is a link. 2 mins i would not give to this site if I had encountered it anyplace other than HN. You might want to do something to make clear what is a link. I am on mobile, using the brave browser.

keithnz 3y ago

maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?

tempodox 3y ago
Agreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.
- ocimbote 3y ago
  I think the pun is "See you, URL", but I agree that it makes it horribly confusing.
  - Bilal_io 3y ago
    But it has a double "r" not double "u"
    - ocimbote 3y ago
      OMG you're right! XD
omoikane 3y ago
I remember Firefox spent quite a bit of effort trying to establish themselves as Phoenix or Firebird before eventually settling on Firefox. I hope currl can move on to a new name quickly and build their reputation there, instead of adding confusion to cURL's name.
quickthrower2 3y ago
curl -io currl.io currl.io

Leires 3y ago

Not for me, but good luck.

qwertox 3y ago

I'd like to see custom css support, like a field to input it, so that I could have one link per line, all very compact.

criswell 3y ago
give me apache directory listing styled websites or give me death

entropie 3y ago

I use a similar thing [1], self baked. I have a bookmarklet to bookmark pages but it also downloads image/videos/gfycats and saves them on the server. [1] https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks https://wecoso.de/bloogmarks

toastercat 3y ago

Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just degrade. I need to know I can migrate easily once it happens.

tuananh 3y ago
pinboard.in has been around for quite awhile :)
- replwoacause 3y ago
  That is the exact service that came to mind when I saw the words “abandoned” and “enshittification”.
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
- bachmeier 3y ago
  For anyone reading this, consider https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30628375
- marcellus23 3y ago
  Pinboard is abandoned. Not just in the sense that no new features have been added in years, but in the sense that existing features are actually broken and are not being fixed, despite still accepting money from customers.
  - glaucon 3y ago
    I feel obliged to point out that the term 'abandoned' might be misinterpreted here. I use pinboard every day, have done so for a decade and it works exactly as intended. The fact that there have been no recent new features troubles me not one jot, my keyboard hasn't had any recent new features either, it just works. Judging by the last time pinboard was mentioned on HN, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34062802, the 'archive' feature, which is a 'pay extra' feature, causes dissatisfaction amongst some people, I can't comment on that as I don't use it. Pinboard is run by a single person so if you're a user it would be sensible to use the 'export' function from time to time to allow for the owner getting sick etc.

nittanymount 3y ago

a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that could remove some concern... - as the name implied, if you could provide a terminal cli, that will be a plus too.. my 2c...

vasanthv 3y ago
That is a great idea. I am gonna add the ability to download bookmarks from the site right away. Thanks

jrm4 3y ago

First of all, this is a great url. In my head it's like "Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this"

mwachs 3y ago

del.icio.us is back!

joshuajill 3y ago

Had my share of free beer for eternity.

joshuajill 3y ago
That said, like the barebones design.

deleted 3y ago

[deleted]

Minor49er 3y ago

Simple and straightforward. I like it Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?

vasanthv 3y ago
Thank you. Yes RSS is in my radar.

jedberg 3y ago

We've come full circle. :) First there was del.icio.us. Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting". And now we're back to del.icio.us!

selcuka 3y ago
> Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting". I believe the original "del.icio.us with voting" was Digg [1]: > Digg also faces competition from other social news services like Reddit, Newsvine, and Netscape, and while none of them has gotten to Digg’s level, it’s still early in the social news race. [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20061013230150/http://www.conversionrater.com/index.php/2006/09/10/revisiting-top-10-web-predictions-of-2006/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061013230150/http://www.conver...
- jedberg 3y ago
  The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. Also, Digg didn't have downvotes, which was a key innovation, because technically delicious already had "upvotes" based on how many people bookmarked the same site. And when we visited Digg later on, we (reddit) discovered that we had double their traffic. Digg had better marketing but reddit was bigger for most of it's life.
  - defrost 3y ago
    I suspect one factor in early reddit growth was early promotion on and rapid adoption by many of the (original) freenode IRC crowd (and extended spouses, famil, etc). I recall the days when it was a "proof of concept" single page lisp based site(?) that got taken on as the default place to post links for ranking and persistant comment (alongside other tool sites like pastebin for text content pastes etc.) The early theoretic comp sci posts died off and cats took over, followed by subredits etc .. and here we are :-)
  - selcuka 3y ago
    Sure. I did not imply reddit copied Digg. Just pointing out the fact that Digg was chronologically the first (or at least earlier than reddit). > The reddit founders had no awareness of Digg until a few months after they launched. This is an interesting anecdote as Digg was already big by then (they actually released Digg 2.0 in July 2005, the same month reddit launched).

wopwops 3y ago

Thank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.

bsnnkv 3y ago

Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to work on them. In general though, I've moved on from saving links, and I think saving links and bookmarks doesn't really serve a purpose for me. These days I save highlights and store the links/books/locations as metadata, because I'm more interested in a searchable collection of _what_ I found interesting instead of _where_ I found something interesting (without the context of what that something was). There are some previous discussions[1] on HN about how I achieve this if this way of thinking seems as intuitive to anyone else as it does to me. [1]: Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33978500 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33627603 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33556765

the-printer 3y ago

The community at https://ln.ht https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.

kleicht 3y ago

what is the popularity metric ?

syngrog66 3y ago

bad name