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WebMynd Could Change the Way You Bookmark Websites

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When I was making fun of Xobni some months ago, I said the next product of this kind would be "a browser plugin that lets you search your bookmarks":

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=56422

No its here and its called WebMynd. Alright.

Just for the record, here is my prediction: No one will use or remember this project in 2 years.

Well, I have developed something similar (all your history is stored in a Database in YOUR sever). It is a free package.Check it out here: http://history.sansj.com

I appreciate this is a YCombinator start-up, so apologies for being a little negative. Firstly I think the app itself looks good, but I visit a lot of sites and I was alarmed at the space being taken up after just a couple of hours of use. Also, I don't want to remember everything - just some sites. Currently I use Furl for this and it works well for me. Click one button and the page is saved into Furl - and fully searchable also. I appreciate that this WebMynd looks slicker, but having this kind of option for me would be better than saving everything

cool, but this is another echo-chamber "non-product"

Cool!

But I wish there was a way to store all the pages locally instead of on a website. When I travel, I'd like to be able to go through my pages without going on the web.

I think the images are local. They mentioned on techcrunch that they'll be making an offline app.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/01/26/webmynd-could-change-th...

Forget about images, I'd like to have a full text search like the latest Opera 9.5 has... that would be super cool!

Nice idea, like my own personal google.

Is there a way to download the history from their servers? Can I also upload my bookmarks, google history, etc?

I thought they store it on your harddrive atm

Extension transfers you to www.webmynd.com/reel when you click the brain icon... it does not work without net connection.

yes they do, and the data size does bloat up rather alarmingly ... I used it for around an hour and the directory size is 50Mb now.

It seems to be stored in [path o FF prefs]/ScrapBook folder. But you can't view the stuff without being online :( Hope this is fixed soon.

Grats guys! Great work in such a short time. Your launch has kicked me into higher gear working on our next release...

Excellent product and I'm looking forward to seeing all the new features the WebMynd guys have in store! Congrats.

Well, it doesn't seem to work for linux systems. So I can't try it. Bookmarking is a very real problem for me and I wouldn't mind paying, say, $10 a year for a good tool. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell your tool won't solve the problem. Atleast that's what I can tell without being able to try it.

I am curious why this got funded though, there is just no barrier to entry, actually, I have no clue why PG funds some of the stuff he does - Fuzzwich is an example. Anyway, I suppose he knows things I don't.

Boo. What did Fuzzwich ever do to you? On a more serious note, I am pretty sure Paul invested in us because we are a very creative and well rounded team. While we might not be a breakout hit in our current incarnation, we know we are on to something. The Fuzzwich team is very confident that we will eventually find our niche and are determined to keep trying until we do.

Best of Luck. Nothing personal, just curious. :)

What's the barrier to entry to Digg or Twitter? Or Flickr? Investor tend to fund TEAMS and MARKETS - not products. The idea pitched in the interview (I imagine) is just to see if you've found an interesting, big, or underserved market and whether you are capable of having and recognizing good ideas.

Digg, Twitter and Flickr all have a 'relatively' higher barrier to entry. To run any of these services you require a fairly substantial investment. This is not true for bookmarking extensions. Also this logic about investing in Teams and Markets - not products is faulty. This kind of thinking is what causes a bubble. If a team is good, part of it shows in the product they choose to build.

I don't often say this, but you're just plain wrong.

The reason to invest in teams and markets is because products change dramatically and often in early stage startups. Here's a quote from Fred Wilson (one of the top consumer VCs, in terms of performance):

aEURoeaEUR|Of the 26 companies that I consider realized or effectively realized in my personal track record, 17 of them made complete transformations or partial transformations of their businesses between the time we invested and the time we sold. That means there a 2/3 chance youaEURXll have to significantly reinvent your business between the time you take a venture capital investment and when you exit your business.aEURX

Regarding barrier to entry, I believe that phrase refers to the difficulty in starting the business-- not running it once it's successful. Of course Flickr and Digg are expensive to run at this point. But a good hacker or three could duplicate the core featureset in a few hard weeks of coding.

I don't like having everything saved to disk. Hence why I so often use Safari's private browsing feature.

you mean there are more legitimate uses to that feature than browsing pr0n?

You guys have a bright future. Congrats on having a solid business model right off the bat.

This sounds just like a spiced-up ScrapBook

http://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/

The visual history slider is really, really slick.

Congrats on the launch guys. Great work!

woot! Way to go guys!

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