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Show HN: Link Drop – Daily newsletter of your bookmarks

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Hi HN - I built this to satisfy a personal itch and learn more about chrome extensions. I always felt like I would set and forget bookmarks so I wanted a way to be reminded of them daily.

That, combined me with my love of newsletters, led me to create linkdrop. Thanks for checking it out!

Cool idea! Do you think you could extend the intervals it sends out emails? I, for one, would really appreciate being able to have a weekly digest of links that I could check out on the weekend instead of a daily email.

I wanted to add that but I didn't have time this weekend. That's actually my biggest feature request from myself :P. I'm super busy over the next couple weeks, but I'll see what I can do to add this, maybe even just a hard coded "Send this only on Friday."

Thanks for checking it out!

Nice Idea. I'm using Zotero with the FF addon as a bookmarker and subscribed to the RSS-feed in telegram via bot. This way everyone in my workgroup gets notified about new bookmarks.

This is the best approach to bookmarking I've seen yet.

I manage a multi-author blog, and I've tried lots of different ways to share story ideas with the authors. This provides an easy way to send out the day's reading.

Whatever revenue model you need to make this viable long-term, I hope it works out. I'd gladly pay a subscription price for this service.

Hey thanks so much for your comment! I'm glad you find this tool helpful. If you have a minute, I'd love to hear your thoughts on how I could improve it further. My email is in my profile. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Saving for when Safari support is added.

One idea for an integration would be with Pinboard. I use read later on pinboard, and would love to have those sent to me this way.

We at https://tefter.io are working on an alternative way to discover new content and organise bookmarks.

We started off with a similar idea to linkdrop but then thought there's more to bookmarking than that.

So a user may subscribe to a variety of feeds and users, https://tefter.io/~hackernews is of course one of them and have a personalised newsfeed. From the newsfeed posts can be bookmarked and kept in a "weekend reads" list. Bookmarks can be marked as read. However bookmarks can be easily added from any devise, since we offer browser extensions, mobile and desktop apps, slack integration. One can also import from pocket or pinboard.

Concerning newsletters, we thought they may be annoying. Imagine waking up on a Sunday to an email telling you to read stuff. We're trying to stay in the spirit of HN, sending as little notifications as possible. Our users have better things to do and their attention is important.

Nice idea, would love to see an example on the page (e.g. screenshot).

Yeah I probably need to redo the landing page. There are a few more example screenshots on the chrome extension page: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/link-drop/bdfpcani...

Thanks for the feedback!

I hope you're considering a Firefox add-on next!

If I had known the response this would get I wouldn't have launched without it! I'll look into it over the next couple weeks. :)

Fantastic work! I would also very much love a Firefox extension

Discussion about a similar idea yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19954307

Whoa I missed this. Will check it out thanks!

Really nice. I remember a previous show HN based on the same concept: https://mailist.app/

I really like simple tools like these. I forget what I bookmark all the time and IMO the chrome bookmarks bar is hard to manage... Nice work & great idea!

Small nitpick: The fields for sign up and create account are the same and should carry over if you switch between the two. For example I entered my email & pass to log in but mean to sign up and had to enter the info twice.

Interesting, the default behavior is for it to carry over but I thought that was weird so I clear the inputs when you switch between the two. I can see how that is annoying since they look so similar.

Nice work, I can see myself using this.

I have some ideas in this field and while I don't execute on them this looks like a good option. :D

Congratulations!

So this tool emails NEW content/articles from the saved bookmarks? Sort of RSS in newsletter form. Pretty cool idea.

Oh no it actually just sends whatever hte link is that you bookmarked. Sorry for the confusion! What you described is actually a _really_ cool idea though haha.

I think reminding ourselves of old things can be quite a good thing in some cases. I think your idea is a _really_ cool idea.

Agreed. So many things languish in my bookmarks and RSS reader. I won’t find them unless I know exactly the right words for them to be suggested. I won’t find them even if I’m trying to (had this problem finding the WildDuck post last week).

A periodical check in sounds amazing. “Are you still curious? Y/n”

hmm. it is not something i would use as person. but i would prefer to use this one as SaaS. Something like, some people are using my mobile app, getting interested with some products, i would popup and ask them "do you want me to email you the links, so you can better see the products later in your desktop"

This would be cool if it linked with Pocket. I like to book mark articles for later viewing on desktop.

My initial plan was to integrate with Pocket (which I love). I have some ideas for how that would be done.

Building this was more about learning how to build a chrome extension, but I think this might work even better as a tool on top of pocket. Given the interest this is getting + the other conversation about bookmarks I might take on the Pocket+ thing next.

Thanks for checking it out!

Super cool idea. For my personal use, I'd love if it worked slightly differently, i.e. had the following (additional?) features:

- let me press a button in my browser ("lottery" or "Russian roulette") and just open a random link (from my bookmarks) immediately in the current tab; I'm not interested in emails, but I'm interested in getting inspired sometimes, exactly when I want it and how much I want it :)

- if it could also load bookmarks/favourites from HN & lobste.rs

- as other said, working on Firefox :)

yeah I do it with pocket (mentioned in another comment) - makes it super simple!

reread.io sends some random unread articles from your pocket as a newsletter

Good job! Have you seen https://mailist.app before? Ot’s pretty the same:) I built it a year ago.

Hey thanks! I've never seen mailist before. I probably wouldn't have built this if I had haha.

Great idea! I love me some newsletter too, so this should be pretty handy.

Minor nitpick: There's a type in the /about page:

> I want to change the time I recieve (->receive) my drop

Ugh thank you for catching that. Will fix in the next push.

Ironic nitpick: the intended word "typo" in your comment has a typo

Oh, the irony

Cool. Would be great if this allowed import of Chrome/Instapaper/Pocket bookmarks, since I have massive backlogs there.

I use Pocket and wrote in a separate comment how to use that.

reread.io is similar for pocket

Exactly what I was asking for! Thank you.

Check https://mailist.app :)

This is a great idea! Any plans for a bookmarklet to get multi-browser support?

Hmm that's interesting. I'm not very familiar with bookmarklets. Could I sync and persist a uid so that I can store the bookmarks per user?

You could generate a custom bookmarklet for users with their uid embedded in it.

Cool - I'll check out how portable the code from chrome extension to firefox/safari extension is. This could be a quick work around if needed. Thanks!

Oh nice! I was thinking something like this would be useful the other day.

I've wanted something like this for years. Thanks for making it [=

reminds me of http://getrevue.co which uses an extension to make it easier to create newsletters to send to others

I made a tutorial for something like this recently which you can use the Pocket extension with (https://www.makerpad.co/make/newsletter-generator-chrome-ext...) and the newsletter tutorial is here (https://www.makerpad.co/pro/automated-weekly-hourly-email-di...) but it's paywalled.

But you just set up zapier to link new bookmarks to airtable, then use the digest zapier trigger to weekly/daily send a list of all the new links sent to airtable via gmail or the zapier email action.

You can also link this with Mailchimp for a bigger newsletter too (which is in the paywalled tutorial)

That's a really cool approach - I am operating in a similar space [1] but I have not introduced any rediscovery options like that yet.

[1] https://www.randoku.co/

Your product looks fairly similar in scope to Pinboard[0] – what would you say differentiates the two?

0: https://pinboard.in/

At its' current state Randoku mirrors Pinboard's features to a certain extent, but I'd like it to be much more than an archiving solution.

I'm working on introducing "read it later" features (à la Pocket/Instapaper), annotations, discovery of relevant content via RSS and re-discovery of content already bookmarked (which is what I liked about Link Drop).

Are any of these services able to ping archive.org with the bookmarked URL?

Randoku does not do that at the moment - I could potentially extend my parser to keep a copy of the closest archived snapshot url from the archive.org public API. I will explore this - thanks

Now that's what I call really simple syndication!

Bookmarked. ...ummm...

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