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Show HN: Linkidex – A Better Way to Save, Search and Share URLs(linkidex.com)
1 points by rdavidr 2y ago|0 comments
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by rdavidr 4y ago
I don't want to claim that Linkidex is better than Raindrop. Raindrop and Linkidex will serve different audiences. That said, we aren't quite ready to share our long term roadmap.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
Thanks for your patience on this! This issue has been fixed.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
Raindrop is great! Its written by one guy and the polish / quality of his work is top notch. Our roadmap is going to bring us in a different direction than Raindrop, but more details on that later.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
1) sharing is on our roadmap and core to our long term value proposition. 2) That is a great idea. Right now we default the title to the URL if a user doesn't input a title. Your suggestion is superior, will look into this. 3) This is
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by rdavidr 4y ago
I don't think a web app can do this, but a browser extension, which is on our roadmap could! Regarding auto-categorize, how would you want that to work? I imagine this could be a machine learning problem, but I wonder if there is a nai
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by rdavidr 4y ago
100% agree. A browser extension is on our roadmap.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
thanks for all of this info!
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by rdavidr 4y ago
The front end app maintains its own state. The front end fetches all of a given users links when it loads and stores them in application state (memory within the front end application.) If you lose your internet connection, the front end wi
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by rdavidr 4y ago
The database is PostgreSQL. We are using Material UI ( https://mui.com/material-ui/getting-started/overview/ ) on the front end which is what makes the website responsive and mobile friendly. MUI has been great
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by rdavidr 4y ago
archivebox is neat. Also it looks like they have the option to backup links to Archive.org, which was mentioned in another comment too.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
I hope it does!
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by rdavidr 4y ago
Making the error reporting of import / export is very high on my todo list. Right now the user just has to wait and doesn't get feedback, which is a bad experience. I see one import failed due to something on my side. I've id
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by rdavidr 4y ago
We haven't plugged into a phone's "share" functionality yet, great suggestion!
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by rdavidr 4y ago
Using web.archive.org is a fantastic idea I had not considered. I wonder if its ok to use their API to serve 'saved' versions of a given site instead of storing it myself. I shall look into this!
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by rdavidr 4y ago
by local storage / export, do you mean storing your URLs, or downloading the archived text versions of pages?
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by rdavidr 4y ago
To clarify, the suggestion here is to search the contents of a given Link, not just the link's title or url? For example, if I have a webpage "www.linkidex.com/test" which displays a bunch of text, including "Hacker
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by rdavidr 4y ago
To clarify, are you suggesting Linkidex automatically sync with whatever the user's bookmarks are on the user's current browser?
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by rdavidr 4y ago
A naive solution could be to just display the first letter of whatever the user has named the given link. Not as helpful as a favicon, but it will prevent the page from looking broken if a bunch of favicons don't exist.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
This is a great point. The chrome extension I was using before building Linkidex had a fixed layout, and I was often times able to quickly navigate it without reading what I was clicking on because I had memorized where certain things were.
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by rdavidr 4y ago
https://github.com/go-shiori/shiori I haven't heard of this one before, thanks for the info. May I ask what made you decide to use Shiori instead of pocket or something else? It looks like Shiori is marketed as a
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by rdavidr 4y ago
Notion Databases are neat! I’m not familiar with them, I just glanced over some of the documentation. I think its safe to say Notion Databases would let you create your own Linkidex (or your own todo list app, or your own food macro trackin
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by rdavidr 4y ago
Not a problem, thanks for checking it out!
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by rdavidr 4y ago
“Test account for HN” registers an account with an email I’ll purge later, so people don’t need to give me their email address if they don’t want to. 1) I think the biggest difference is that Pocket (and some other competitors) try to keep
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Show HN: Linkidex – save and sort the URLs you care about(linkidex.com)
66 points by rdavidr 4y ago|54 comments