Learnings from building reread.io

A good read overall, it's interesting to see projects that might not have a huge number of users but does have good engagement levels.

As for the marketing, if someone reached out to me over twitter I'd rather not know that it was something they "built over the weekend". That might sound great for the HN crowd but as a consumer I'd like to know services are solid, stable, reliable and will still be here tomorrow.

Could someone please build something like that for my local Firefox bookmarks? Make it a gamelike "Discover my bookmarks" or something ;)

I applaud the OP's effort to build and market this from scratch -- then write about it!

I will say, though, there's a reason marketing is an entire function led by separate people. It's hard, uses different strengths and experience, and requires consistent effort -- not variations on "post it and they will come."

Maybe if it supported other services as well it would gain a little more traction? I would love to reread my HN saved links, and as someone else mentioned old bookmarks, or at least find out if I still want to read them again. I guess pocket is a good start, but maybe it could go a bit further?

This may only be me but I found the color scheme on your site a horrible eye-strain. There's a reason red text is used for error messages.

>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options).

And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while.

If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.