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   by levng 13y ago

   Thanks! Evernote do let you save different text snippets and links but they are more geared toward "private". On QuoteRed, everything is public. We may add a private board or two later.
2. 32.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   Looking into this right now - in Step 3, did you highlight the quote and click the "Quote It" button? Thanks for letting us know about this.
3. 33.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   Sure thing - we're looking to integrate Twitter log in (we think that the QuoteRed userbase would somewhat overlap with Twitter's), and of course a plain login with a vanilla email/password combo. To come!
4. 34.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   We did think of having a tiles view and overlaying the quotes over images. Knowing which images to combine quotes with may be an issue!
5. 35.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   Not at the moment, but it's something we're keen to include. Importing from a text file seems a bit tedious, and asking people to log in with their Amazon credentials is a definite no-no. Any ideas on how best to do it?
6. 36.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   Thanks - part of the reason for making QuoteRed is that I find it hard to share things on Facebook and Twitter without it taking over my feed. My idea for this was, by limiting what you post to unoriginal content, you would be freer to post
7. 37.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   I like that! Any typefaces you would propose in particular? Not sure if you noticed, but we've used two typefaces on the current version of the site: Adobe Caslon Pro and Proxima Nova.
8. 38.▲
   by levng 13y ago

   We actually started this project at a Hackathon at Facebook HQ. We came up with the name via a quick domain search. I agree with you that quotes aren't necessarily the best term to use - maybe text snippets would be more accurate? We want t
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   by levng 13y ago

   That's pretty cool. I notice you have both a public and private option for users. We're sticking to making everything public for now for network effects, but will be keen to add a private option later on, demand pending.
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    by levng 13y ago

    Thanks Daniel - so it didn't work out with Amazon? The Kindle annotation system is also part of the inspiration behind QuoteRed actually. I find it pretty useful myself.
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    Show HN: Pinterest for text(quotered.com)

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