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What's the difference between this and Pinterest?

itay 14y ago
In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a huge benefit. You can also have things private and/or shared with a select group of people, which is what I usually do. For example, a common use case I've found is that I'll clip something from Gilt/other signup required sites, to show someone a deal they might be interested in, but they don't want to sign up just to look at it. If they like it, they end up signing up.
- idleloops 14y ago
  Thanks for that. So the clips aren't totally live - if you are sharing content that is somehow walled off.
  - itay 14y ago
    I'm not quite sure what you mean. Your clips can be private and shared with a few people (or none), or they can be completely public. In the example I gave, I wouldn't really mind if they were public, but I don't see a reason to make them public - it is just to share with a few friends, really.
    - idleloops 14y ago
      I might have misunderstood the product. I assumed (though this would be tough), that when you took a snippet of a page, and say the page updated later on - the snippet would reflect the change. You make it sound like the snippets are static caches of content.
      - itay 14y ago
        Yes, that's my understanding as well. That's also what I want. I'm taking a snapshot in time of a page, so that I can then go back to that snapshot and look at it. Sometimes those snapshots are not valuable after a while, so I delete them :)
mnicole 14y ago
Upon actually using it, it's pretty much snip.it but even more difficult to read. I think Snip.it and Pinterest are not very well designed around their primary purpose - content - but posts that can span 900px high of illegible text is pretty bad, especially when you scroll a little bit more and it's just posted again by someone else. For whatever reason, I just wrote another post about features and ways to distinguish this product from the competition in their other thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4049752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4049752).
- jboggan 14y ago
  I like snip.it's design and content fairly well, and it works quite simply. The only thing wrong with it right now is a relative lack of breadth of topics represented on the front page due to the proclivities of early adopters. That will improve in time.

itay 14y ago

In my opinion: you're clipping content + structure, and not just something like images/text. So you get to preserve the original layout, links, etc, which is a huge benefit. You can also have things private and/or shared with a select group of people, which is what I usually do. For example, a common use case I've found is that I'll clip something from Gilt/other signup required sites, to show someone a deal they might be interested in, but they don't want to sign up just to look at it. If they like it, they end up signing up.

idleloops 14y ago
Thanks for that. So the clips aren't totally live - if you are sharing content that is somehow walled off.
- itay 14y ago
  I'm not quite sure what you mean. Your clips can be private and shared with a few people (or none), or they can be completely public. In the example I gave, I wouldn't really mind if they were public, but I don't see a reason to make them public - it is just to share with a few friends, really.
  - idleloops 14y ago
    I might have misunderstood the product. I assumed (though this would be tough), that when you took a snippet of a page, and say the page updated later on - the snippet would reflect the change. You make it sound like the snippets are static caches of content.
    - itay 14y ago
      Yes, that's my understanding as well. That's also what I want. I'm taking a snapshot in time of a page, so that I can then go back to that snapshot and look at it. Sometimes those snapshots are not valuable after a while, so I delete them :)

mnicole 14y ago

Upon actually using it, it's pretty much snip.it but even more difficult to read. I think Snip.it and Pinterest are not very well designed around their primary purpose - content - but posts that can span 900px high of illegible text is pretty bad, especially when you scroll a little bit more and it's just posted again by someone else. For whatever reason, I just wrote another post about features and ways to distinguish this product from the competition in their other thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4049752 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4049752).

jboggan 14y ago
I like snip.it's design and content fairly well, and it works quite simply. The only thing wrong with it right now is a relative lack of breadth of topics represented on the front page due to the proclivities of early adopters. That will improve in time.