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Show HN: I created the easiest way to share and collaborate on links on the web

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Very promising product. Having used PushBullet on my Pixel phone for such a long time, I’m scratching my head trying to find an alternative on iOS since it’s no longer available on the platform. I wonder if your app offers some kind of similar features, one of most prominent being sharing links and hopefully files between multiple devices, it be desktop or mobile.

Thanks! Yup, SeeLink does allow for sharing links between devices. For files, I'd recommend something like Google Drive or Dropbox.

Could you give a few examples of when you see this app shining? Usually if I want to maintain a list of links with people I (1) also want to write text around those links, and (2) use a Google doc, which might lack in link-specific features, but is otherwise totally adequate. So looking at the page here I'm not sure what this app has to offer me.

Sure, thanks a ton for asking. The original reason behind why I created SeeLink was to share important links with friends and family. SeeLink makes your links sharable, searchable, and easily readable (as it displays each link in the form of a card with a title, description, and image). It also allows you to write text around the links using a tag, and has a ton of link specific features that make it easier to share links. These include creating specific boards through which you can add specific links to share with specific people. I think these are the main advantages that SeeLink has over something like Google Docs. Let me know if you have any further questions!

> SeeLink is the first link sharing and collaboration platform.

Thanks for sharing, but isn't this very similar to del.icio.us?

Wouldn't Delicious be more like Pinterest? I have to admit I hadn't heard of it before, but SeeLink's main use case is to share links with small groups of people, such as teams, friends, or family. SeeLink might come in handy for a student project where you need to share a ton of resources across the web, or even starting a new side project where you need to do lots of research and collaboration. Thanks for taking the time to comment, though!

SeeLink is more similar to a Google stealth product, https://staykeen.com/. Did del.icio.us have collaborative boards?

Keen looks more discovery based collaboration too. SeeLink is more about sharing important links with teams, friends, or family. Thanks for taking the time to comment!

It'll be nice if there are openly accessible example link boards without having to sign up and log in.

That has been common feedback from quite a few users. Thanks for letting me know, I'll implement it soon :) I think I might make it so that you need to sign up if you want to add a link to the board, but can see others' boards without signing up.

"Share all as web page" feature in OneTab is beautiful. Maybe you can gather some ideas from that to make your product even better1

Sure, thanks for the suggestion!

Looks cool. How do you make money off this?

Haven't thought about this much yet, but I think a freemium model, something like padlet, might work here. However, for the foreseeable future, SeeLink is free!

It looks like a great product. I'm wondering what makes yours the easiest among many alternatives out there?

I think SeeLink is the most accessible way to share links with friends and family at the moment, since it offers a ton of link specific features that make sharing links with groups of people easier

I love your app and have been wanting something like this for a long time...

sounds cool, that project would be heavily benefitted by adding a Social Login

Thanks! Will add OAuth soon!

This is super cool! Will use with my team!

Thanks!

Too cool!

Thanks!

Hello HN!

After being frustrated with not being able to share and collaborate on links with friends and family, I created SeeLink, a platform to simplify sharing and collaborating on links with friends and family.

Conventionally, sharing links with people was done through messaging apps, where they would get lost in the sea of messages. SeeLink allows its users to create boards to share links with individuals / groups of people, allowing them to save and share human-readable links at the click of a button.

After 3 months of work, I have created a complete platform that simplifies link sharing and collaboration, allowing you to seamlessly share, save, and collaborate on links with groups of up to 50 people at a time. I'm super excited to finally launch SeeLink and get it out to the world! Let me know if you have any feedback, suggestions, or questions.

Just curious are you going to have a Github repo for applications that want to integrate with your product. Do you have any type of API that can talk to your app ? What programming language is your app written in and what front end framework are you using ?

Hi. I haven't really thought about open-sourcing the code and apps that might want to use SeeLink yet. However, I am working on an API since I'm building a Chrome extension to communicate with the product and make it easier to add links. Do you have any idea as to what kinds of apps might find communicating with SeeLink useful? The app is built in Python with Flask, and I have used Bootstrap on the frontend.

Well just to express my bias I am a big fan of open source and contribute to several open source projects; one of which I could see talking to your API if you had one. Also, not sure how many people have developed your application, but having lots of feedback from a community on discord or some such service; especially if in the future you decided to open source the project could solidify your project as the go to open source project in this space. I am not aware; but others could chime in current open source projects of this completeness like yours that are open source.

An example of an app that might want to integrate with your service could possibly be tools like https://www.notion.so

Agree with most of the points you have made here. Would be super cool if other open-source projects or applications could find a use for SeeLink. I haven't thought much about open sourcing the project yet, but I will definitely keep this option open in the future!

Congratulations on launching it. However it has me more confused than anything:

How is this better than a shared google doc? maybe I am not the target audience, but I also don't get what the value proposition is.

Hopefully you will have great success.

Thanks for asking! SeeLink makes your links sharable, searchable, and easily readable (as it displays each link in the form of a card with a title, description, and image). It also allows you to write text around the links using a tag, and has a ton of link specific features that make it easier to share links. These include creating specific boards through which you can add specific links to share with specific people. I think these are the main advantages that SeeLink has over something like Google Docs. Let me know if you have any further questions!

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