Amazing list thanks!
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As it stands it is way too easy to use as a weapon to sue people into submission. Although I think this is already well known.
If someone sues you for some bogus claim, is it possible to submit a written plain english rebuttal and have the court throw it out before it gets too serious? I mean if I sue some company for something absurd and demand $10 million dollars, are they forced to actually entertain my lawsuit or can it be dismissed readily without a lawyer?
* Make clip deletion central to the app. Should be right there with "visit". Easy cleanup.
* All the clips should be the same size. Right now I clipped the name of a book and it is twice as large as full webpages I want to revisit.
* I'm sure it's on your roadmap but I'd like to be able to share from within the chrome extension without having to go back to the app.
* Also I'm sure it's on your roadmap but search should search the pages content as well if possible.
* Probably also on your roadmap but my main problems with bookmarks as they stand now are twofold. Organization and rediscovery.
You have a good start solving the organization problem and the rediscovery problem due to the visual nature of your solution. But what I really want is some sort of reminder about old bookmarks that I haven't viewed in X amount of days.
For all non starred bookmarks keep a last viewed count. If it's over 90 days or some determined amount add it to the list of bookmarks that are expiring. Have a little icon similar to the push notification icons on iOS alerting me how many expiring bookmarks I have. Have a place to click to see them all. Provide super easy management to archive, star, or do nothing. Autoarchive after 180 days. Still keep these around and searchable but in an "expand to see archived bookmarks" portion.
Help me keep my bookmarks relevant. Please :)
Also if I retroactively try and remove tags from a clip that fails. I can only add tags (seemingly).
Finally feature request... I would love to be able to have subtags #books #fiction. Maybe #books > fiction > fantasy or something. But only have one top level tag "books" and then have a subcategory organized under the #books tag. Collapse all the entries for a subtag or something.
My only question is.... how are you monetizing it? The browser extension can track my entire browser history. Are you uploading it to your servers?
Perhaps not related to backbone but how are you encoding the different "views" in your single page application? Does the client download all of the templates upfront or how does that work? Also does the client know which template to render for a given api call or is that passed down from the server as well?
I'd be very interested in reading a blog post demonstrating how you strung all of this together! Pretty cool!
Thanks!
Personally I feel that way too many of the front page threads some YC company posting some blog post about the HN zeitgeist of the week. That or job postings from YC backed companies.
Maybe I'll get downvotes but it seems like some YC companies are trying to game the system and use their sway here to get unwarranted buzz. I know the site is YC run, but personally I would like to see the focus on YC companies de-emphasized a bit here.
* Content discovery pretty close to how you have it but with a better way to find local acts. I.e. a big read "Find Local" button.
* Have an admin interface for musicians to put concert dates, iTunes links, etc.
* Eventually you could become the one-stop shop for discovering new local acts as and figuring out who is playing in your town on a given night.
As an example you view some guitar video of a dude shredding a Metallica song. You click on it and you see what band he is in, where/when it is playing, songs from the band that you can stream for free(with user ratings), download for a price (or free if they want). That kind of thing.
The reverse of this is also true. You can see a calendar of all of the local acts playing near you. You can click on any act and see all of their fandalism videos as well as all the information I described above.
You should be able to purchase tickets and songs through fandalism.
Monetization
* Take a cut of said ticket and song purchases.
* Very subtle premium ads on the main page advertising shows in your area based on your tastes. Personally I would actually be interested in reading these ads.
EDIT:
Just had another idea which is an addon to my previous idea. A lot of people are coming up with ideas related to Kickstarter. This is a cool concept. I think it would be excellent if Fandalism partnered with music venues so that you have a list of a bunch of different acceptable venues and their seating capacity.
Bands or users could initiate Fandalism campaigns to have a band play a live concert. E.g. I'm willing to put $10 to see this band play live on one of these dates. Turns out 1000 other people were willing to do so as well. Fans vote on which of the 1000 person venue they want to go to. Band gets 5k, venue gets 4.5k, fandalism gets 500 bucks.
I think this plays to peoples' want to be ahead of the curve. How cool would it be to say "Yeah I funded the Red Hot Chili Peppers first concert way before they became famous".
I'm building a couple sites at the moment and am having them designed from scratch but I'm wondering how you determine the cost/benefit of tweaking something off the shelf versus building your own?
When you had to handroll most of your code and make it work within the limited constraints of the hardware, you were solving problems all the time.
Sure there are still fun problems to work on, but the average programmer doesn't get to work on them.
As I see it it's like this.
Most people are paid with how much labor they provide. $X amount of hours worked equals $Y amount of money. Call these people Group A. Some are paid using a different scale in line with the value of their creations. E.g. inventing a better battery, opening a well positioned McDonalds, etc. Call these people Group B.
Technology is reducing the amount of hours of labor from Group A the world actually can use. Similarly most of Group A won't be able to create something that actually adds value to the economy and transition into Group B.
So what are we going to do with all these people from Group A that are not adding "value" to the economy? The only reasonable solution is to subsidize these people in a way we deem socially acceptable.
Social Darwinism isn't acceptable, so the trick is finding a way to do this without causing side effects and hopefully that adds benefit to society. Note these people won't generate benefit to the economy in any meaningful way.