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Ask HN: Review http://browserpop.com

9 points by juye 17y ago

I got fed up with maintaining different bookmark bars across all my machines/browsers/phones so put this together. It's a quick launchpad for your most commonly used sites and supports opening multiple links in one go, which I find useful when I want to surf the news. I also plan to add an option to make your links public so that you can share them with your friends as I'm always being asked which sites I use the most. It's not supposed to be a competitor to delicious and the like, just needed to scratch an itch for myself. Hope some of you find it useful and would love to hear your feedback.

brk 17y ago
I like the concept, have wanted to do something myself for quite some time (my process only went as far as registering a URL). I don't like the idea of this as a list that is basically just a webpage though. It needs to be more "integrated", at least as a separate window that can popup to open links in the main browser window. You'll also need a bookmarklet that allows users to book mark sites (ideally) to both the browser and to browserpop.com at the same time. Another good idea would be a category class that you could share with certain friends. This way, 3 people working on a project could all add bookmarks to this category or group for the others to see. Or, just for casual social bookmark sharing.
- juye 17y ago
  I will have a think about the integration you mention. I'm using it as my homepage and launching the links I want from there, but can see how your integration idea could make it easier to use. There is a bookmarklet on the /tools page - will make this more obvious though. Totally agree with the idea of sharing and have listed this as one of the things to do on the /roadmap page. I am often asked what links I personally use so this would be a good place to publish/share them. Also, would be good to have a place to store links for groups to use, such as commonly used links for companies, so this is high up on my to do list. Thanks for the feedback.
adityakothadiya 17y ago
Clickable - http://browserpop.com http://browserpop.com
PStamatiou 17y ago
So is it like a page you can create with your favorite links and such? (i'm not sure, havent made an account). Have you seen http://start.io/ http://start.io/ - sounds like the same space
- juye 17y ago
  Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen that before. Nice site and it does look similar. One of my goals was to keep browserpop simple and specific, so whilst some of the features on start.io look nice, I hope that browserpop is simpler to use for it's intended purpose.
hedgehog 17y ago
Also scratching a browser-related itch: http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ Bookmarklets that make it easy to bounce pages between devices (similar to Instapaper but with an Android client & a more streamlined UI).
- juye 17y ago
  Interesting approach. I forgot to mention it in the post, but browserpop has an iPhone/Android friendly UI too.
  - hedgehog 17y ago
    Cool. On most platforms we used a bookmarklet for the "push" function (works great) but on Android we needed a native client because their bookmarklets don't work yet. dannyr actually wrote most of the Java for that.
sheriff 17y ago
My first instinct is that I can get 80% of the way there with a tag in my Delicious account. The other 20% would be in a UI that was really geared towards being a home page. As a result, it'd be great if folks could try out the interface without having to sign up first. No reason you can't let people add a couple URLs to see if they like it, and only require sign up if they want to save their bookmarks beyond that browser session or access from another computer
- juye 17y ago
  I'm a delicious user and used to use a tag as you describe. I almost built this on top of delicious but decided against it as I didn't want to have to add the delicious signup as a requirement and then have to explain what delicious was. I really like the idea of being able to use it without signing up - seems obvious now you mention it! Will look to add that shortly.
lkozma 17y ago
I made something like this a few years ago, although much simpler and with public links. Batch opening of links sounds like a good idea. http://www.lkozma.net/links http://www.lkozma.net/links

9 points by juye 17y ago

brk 17y ago

I like the concept, have wanted to do something myself for quite some time (my process only went as far as registering a URL). I don't like the idea of this as a list that is basically just a webpage though. It needs to be more "integrated", at least as a separate window that can popup to open links in the main browser window. You'll also need a bookmarklet that allows users to book mark sites (ideally) to both the browser and to browserpop.com at the same time. Another good idea would be a category class that you could share with certain friends. This way, 3 people working on a project could all add bookmarks to this category or group for the others to see. Or, just for casual social bookmark sharing.

juye 17y ago
I will have a think about the integration you mention. I'm using it as my homepage and launching the links I want from there, but can see how your integration idea could make it easier to use. There is a bookmarklet on the /tools page - will make this more obvious though. Totally agree with the idea of sharing and have listed this as one of the things to do on the /roadmap page. I am often asked what links I personally use so this would be a good place to publish/share them. Also, would be good to have a place to store links for groups to use, such as commonly used links for companies, so this is high up on my to do list. Thanks for the feedback.

adityakothadiya 17y ago

Clickable - http://browserpop.com http://browserpop.com

PStamatiou 17y ago

So is it like a page you can create with your favorite links and such? (i'm not sure, havent made an account). Have you seen http://start.io/ http://start.io/ - sounds like the same space

juye 17y ago
Thanks for the link - I hadn't seen that before. Nice site and it does look similar. One of my goals was to keep browserpop simple and specific, so whilst some of the features on start.io look nice, I hope that browserpop is simpler to use for it's intended purpose.

hedgehog 17y ago

Also scratching a browser-related itch: http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/ Bookmarklets that make it easy to bounce pages between devices (similar to Instapaper but with an Android client & a more streamlined UI).

juye 17y ago
Interesting approach. I forgot to mention it in the post, but browserpop has an iPhone/Android friendly UI too.
- hedgehog 17y ago
  Cool. On most platforms we used a bookmarklet for the "push" function (works great) but on Android we needed a native client because their bookmarklets don't work yet. dannyr actually wrote most of the Java for that.

sheriff 17y ago

My first instinct is that I can get 80% of the way there with a tag in my Delicious account. The other 20% would be in a UI that was really geared towards being a home page. As a result, it'd be great if folks could try out the interface without having to sign up first. No reason you can't let people add a couple URLs to see if they like it, and only require sign up if they want to save their bookmarks beyond that browser session or access from another computer

juye 17y ago
I'm a delicious user and used to use a tag as you describe. I almost built this on top of delicious but decided against it as I didn't want to have to add the delicious signup as a requirement and then have to explain what delicious was. I really like the idea of being able to use it without signing up - seems obvious now you mention it! Will look to add that shortly.

lkozma 17y ago

I made something like this a few years ago, although much simpler and with public links. Batch opening of links sounds like a good idea. http://www.lkozma.net/links http://www.lkozma.net/links