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by dsowers 14y ago
Self promotion here, but I just released a bookmarking app on monday called Briarpatch. It's more of a way for everyone to benefit from the collective bookmarking process than it is an organization tool. Get to enjoy other people's bookmark
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by dsowers 14y ago
I launched a new site yesterday that tries to solve this very problem. Briarpatch is a content discovery site which attempts to show higher-quality links (that aren't just 42 floors type links) by mining everyone's bookmark collections. Top
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by dsowers 14y ago
Just launched Briarpatch yesterday (a way to share and follow bookmarks): http://briarpat.ch/hot
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by dsowers 14y ago
I just posted a service that could suffice. http://briarpat.ch/hot Just create a chrome bookmarks folder called "HN" or something. And bookmark sites you like into that folder. If you choose to share this folder with the world, everyone e
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by dsowers 14y ago
Good insight. I think a lot of people have been confused about that. I will make that change. Thanks!
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by dsowers 14y ago
Yeah, pinboard is definitely good for collecting everything. However, we don't want briarpatch to collect everything that someone posts on all of these sites because it would lead to content pollution (like you see with most content discove
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by dsowers 14y ago
What briarpatch does differently is you don't have to use a javascript bookmarklet. With the briarpatch chrome extension, you can just bookmark sites the way you normally do and it works behind the scenes without you having to think about i
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by dsowers 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Do you think these experts have thousands of actual bookmarks or just thousands of links on these other platforms? Because it seems to me that people don't want to pollute their own bookmark collections, and will on
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by dsowers 14y ago
Yeah, good call. I'll make that change. You can see the footer info if you go to one of the pages that doesn't have infinite scroll. But you're right. I remember being annoyed by the same thing on facebook.
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by dsowers 14y ago
You can choose which bookmarks you want to make public as soon as you install the extension. It's also kind of nice to have all of your bookmarks in briarpatch because you will always have a backup copy of them, and won't lose them if you g
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by dsowers 14y ago
Yeah, sorry about that. This is an early beta version, and I've only built the chrome extension for it at the moment. I'm working on firefox. If you want, I can notify you when it's available?
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by dsowers 14y ago
PHP/MySQL with Codeigniter. Pagodabox is hosting it (they are kind of like heroku, but for PHP)
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by dsowers 14y ago
Thanks. It's kind of a custom mixture of elements. I used some bootstrap elements, and also purchased some graphics from graphicriver.
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by dsowers 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback. A "save for later" feature is an interesting idea. I'll put that on my list.
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A new way to discover high-quality content on the web(briarpat.ch)
14 points by dsowers 14y ago|26 comments
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by dsowers 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I have been considering removing the pictures next to the feed. You're probably right about it competing for you attention.
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by dsowers 14y ago
You don't need to register to check out the content. You can see the "hot" bookmarks by going here: http://briarpat.ch/hot Also, you can see top-rated bookmark folders by going here: http://briarpat.ch/folders
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by dsowers 14y ago
Thanks! We built it to combat the low-quality content problem. There is only one way to get content into briarpatch–through a bookmark. So it provides a new way to discover good sites. (plus you get to see your friends' bookmarks, and follo
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Show HN: Follow the Bookmarks of Leading Thinkers and Interesting People(briarpat.ch)
3 points by dsowers 14y ago|5 comments