Show HN: I made a free blogging/bookmarking platform with discussions/discovery

The idea in the hn title is interesting - but I do not see anything on the page saying how it would work for bookmarks.. is it a bookmarklet like worpdress kind of thing?

A bookmark importer kind of idea?

I've never checked to see if anyone has made a bookmarks-file-importer for a blogging type thing - it's a good idea for many reasons.

Should be easy to import and create 'posts' in wordpress - I just don't know enough about the chrome and firefox bookamrks - how they are exported , the sqllite setup?

which makes me think it wouldn't be too hard to push an import/export into activitypub / mastadon / matrix..

If these things have been made I've not seen them - so there is some market for doing this kind of thing I believe - and I could see different types of people using bookmarklet like functionality if it was also one-click export the post to own blog plus insta plus fb plus whatever brdige matrix put out a while back.

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Interesting... I like what you've built here. It's almost like Tumblr for bookmarking services.

The obvious thing you are missing though is a bookmarklet. Don't make your users manually add their bookmarks ;-)

After that, the option to have your bookmarks private by default.

Keep going!

Congrats on putting this out there, but I don't get it. I mean that honestly not as a half-assed dis. Maybe this just isn't for me.

I have thousands of bookmarks and I don't understand how i'd use this to retrieve anything efficiently. I assume they'd just show up as post-like-things in the stream. I don't see any examples of blogging or why a stream? interface to a blog is a particularly good idea... sure for a front page but after that every blogging platform has basically decided "yeah scrolling forever to find a thing is bad way to find old posts.

Also, the free is concerning to me. Loosing blog posts or bookmarks because the place you hosted them didn't have a business plan to pay for hosting and can just be killed without concern because there's no potential loss of money is ... yeah. insta-nope for me. Don't want to loose all that effort.

I like the comments. They're direct, probably useful and importantly kind and friendly. Well done all.

Hey mate, I noticed that you haven't built RSS support yet. It's a must for a blogging system.

This is pretty cool. Is it opensource? What stack is it built with?

Cool idea. You need a mobile CSS rule. Can’t read a thing.