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Tangential, but: for a while I was wondering what the idea and use cases of Pinterest are like, and this article seems to offer a decent explanation. (I know I’
by goblin89 12y ago
Tangential, but: for a while I was wondering what the idea and use cases of Pinterest are like, and this article seems to offer a decent explanation. (I know I’m not alone in this as the question seems to regularly pop up among HN comments in related threads, so I thought it might be worth a note.)
> Pinterest’s philosophy is that it can help nudge people into doing things — be it buying a coffee maker or trying a new recipe — by letting the site’s 70 million estimated regular visitors search for and save for later the things that interest them. If I’m looking to buy a good espresso machine, for instance, I could head over to La Marzocco’s website and pin a link to the $7,000 GS/3 to my Pinterest board to buy it later.
- smackfu 12y agoPeople planning weddings or home decoration used to have scrapbooks where they pasted in cutouts from magazines showing ideas they liked. Pinterest is the online version of that.
- furyofantares 12y agoPeople still have scrapbooks, and for lots of reasons more than that, including simply as a hobby. It's also very similar to vision boards (actually, I think the similarity is stronger, and may be where the "pin" metaphor comes from).