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Show HN: Notes, bookmarks for iOS, saves to your GitHub repo, drag and drop

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I don’t understand why so many app developers put so much effort into building their apps and so little effort into explaining what it does/how it works. The website shows me one screenshot of a list of pages. Zero information on the user experience, how to create the pages, what they look like, can I reorder them in the list, no info of any kind about workflow. The App Store page is actually worse, because the additional screenshot it adds is baffling and not explained. A whole page of “channel” configuration information? What’s a channel? I have no idea.

I was intrigued that the HN summary talks about better iOS bookmarking. That’s interesting to me, but it’s 100% workflow dependent and there’s zero information about workflow (or even bookmarking period) that I can see.

I think, for solo developers at least, it's very easy to get so familiar with your project that you find it difficult to step outside and see it from the point of view of someone who is not familiar with it.

Also (this is definitely true in my case) devs spend all their time honing the product and then are just too exhausted to do any meaningful marketing. I've often released things to store with minimal information and intended to come back and revisit, to improve the marketing copy. But before long I'm back honing and bug fixing and I've forgotten about the sparse description I left unfinished.

I’m one of the devs on Kobble. Thanks for the comments. When you start the app, there is tutorial information and videos on the first screen. We do agree that the landing page could use improvement.

The data model is somewhat like YouTube, except the items are not just videos. They can be bookmarks, markdown documents, or presentations (made with markdown also). It’s all built around sharing. It’s easy to share channels with other users, for instance.

Kobble also has extensive support for iOS drag and drop. If you use the multitasking capabilities of the iPad, you can just drag links or text directly into Kobble. The Kobble tree supports drag and drop also. It’s quite efficient at organising information from the web.

Cheers.

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