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Raindrop is fantastic: https://raindrop.io/ https://raindrop.io/.

bradbarrish 2y ago
I also migrated from Pinboard to Raindrop and can confirm it's a great service, is updated regularly and while I've generally not received quick responses to questions or feedback, I do eventually. It's also worth mentioning that at least for iOS and MacOS, it has nice integrations that work well, which I could never say about Pinboard.
bananapub 2y ago
$28/year, also "AI Suggestions" is the first item on the "Pro" features list. I'm sure it's a fine CRUD app but I don't really hold hope for it being a long term success.
- elashri 2y ago
  This app added this AI feature recently. It is very successful for years before current LLM hype.
- atombender 2y ago
  Raindrop is not a new app. I've been using it for about five years now. It's a solo developer project by one guy in Kazakhstan, which makes it all the more impressive. It has a great browser extension, a great desktop app (Electron-based, but very well done), and a great iOS mobile app (no idea about Android). It's also been under active development since I started using it. One of its best features is its app, which allows you to browse your bookmarks in a split pane. I've only checked out the AI feature now, since you mentioned it. I'm not a fan of pointless AI features that get added to apps, but this one is actually useful! It suggests places your bookmarks should be moved to. I had a bunch of stuff in an "Unsorted" folder, and it actually made really accurate suggestions for where they should be moved, and it also suggested moving some stuff I had miscategorized or where I had a more specific folder it could be in.
  - BobaFloutist 2y ago
    Honestly that's a rare good use case for AI: low stakes, passes through a human before anything actually happens, and is about ambiguos categorization based on human language.
    - atombender 2y ago
      Agreed!
Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago
I can vouch for that. I have been using it for many years.
Derbasti 2y ago
I migrated from pinboard to raindrop this year, can confirm. I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month instead, and declined. I wonder if all the outages and throttling were a result of underestimating the running costs. Regardless, service quality had declined to such levels that I switched to raindrop this year. Ironically, raindrop is free to use, and may run into the same issue eventually.
- 0xBDB 2y ago
  I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.

I also migrated from Pinboard to Raindrop and can confirm it's a great service, is updated regularly and while I've generally not received quick responses to questions or feedback, I do eventually. It's also worth mentioning that at least for iOS and MacOS, it has nice integrations that work well, which I could never say about Pinboard.

bananapub 2y ago

$28/year, also "AI Suggestions" is the first item on the "Pro" features list. I'm sure it's a fine CRUD app but I don't really hold hope for it being a long term success.

elashri 2y ago
This app added this AI feature recently. It is very successful for years before current LLM hype.
atombender 2y ago
Raindrop is not a new app. I've been using it for about five years now. It's a solo developer project by one guy in Kazakhstan, which makes it all the more impressive. It has a great browser extension, a great desktop app (Electron-based, but very well done), and a great iOS mobile app (no idea about Android). It's also been under active development since I started using it. One of its best features is its app, which allows you to browse your bookmarks in a split pane. I've only checked out the AI feature now, since you mentioned it. I'm not a fan of pointless AI features that get added to apps, but this one is actually useful! It suggests places your bookmarks should be moved to. I had a bunch of stuff in an "Unsorted" folder, and it actually made really accurate suggestions for where they should be moved, and it also suggested moving some stuff I had miscategorized or where I had a more specific folder it could be in.
- BobaFloutist 2y ago
  Honestly that's a rare good use case for AI: low stakes, passes through a human before anything actually happens, and is about ambiguos categorization based on human language.
  - atombender 2y ago
    Agreed!

Fire-Dragon-DoL 2y ago

I can vouch for that. I have been using it for many years.

Derbasti 2y ago

I migrated from pinboard to raindrop this year, can confirm. I was on Pinboard's lifetime plan. No subscription, just a single payment of $15 back who knows when. A few years ago I was asked if I wouldn't rather pay $5 per month instead, and declined. I wonder if all the outages and throttling were a result of underestimating the running costs. Regardless, service quality had declined to such levels that I switched to raindrop this year. Ironically, raindrop is free to use, and may run into the same issue eventually.

0xBDB 2y ago
I got the same e-mail and also declined to move off the lifetime plan. I would have considered it to support the site but I could see where the owner's attention was going to be focused. Politics is a hell of a drug.