Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative?

Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by sw1205 on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:18AM (#2034419)

With Delicious closing down we thought we would recommend our bookmarking site - Favilous. We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down! We had been working on a major revamp of the site and it just so happened Delicious made their announcement (or didn't make their announcement!) when we were about to press the launch button.

What do we offer?

Bookmark quickly and effectively for free.

Attractive site with users having the ability to customise backgrounds and arrange bookmarks in categories.

Save articles for viewing later - so now you can bookmark and view sites later, a combination we do not think exists.

Users can see what sites are hot and what sites are popular.

Social - Follow people who bookmark things of interest.

Bookmark things on the fly with a click of a button and it saves it to your inbox for viewing later.

View what the community is bookmarking - this page is of great value as it offers descriptions of the sites that are being bookmarked.

Import bookmarks from various sources including delicious.

Background We are a 2 man startup from the UK. We are bootstrapped. We have thousands of links already bookmarked from thousands of different users.

We would love to know what you think and what feedback you may have so that we can improve the service for new and existing users.

thanks!

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by pvg on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:42AM (#2034488)

Hey, welcome to the fray!

Save articles for viewing later - so now you can bookmark and view sites later, a combination we do not think exists.

I assume you mean 'read it later'. I think it's hard to find a bookmarking service that doesn't offer this, these days. You can probably make your promotional verbiage more distinctive by taking a look at the various competitors.

and what feedback you may have

Bookmarklets don't work in Chrome.

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by CodeMage on Thursday December 23, 2010 @01:11PM (#2035260)

Okay, how do I import bookmarks from delicious? The "Import bookmarks" option allows only importing from a file and I haven't find anything in help about importing from various sources.

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by petervandijck on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:26AM (#2034438)

"We promise never to sell to Yahoo so there will be no chance of us closing down!" -> that's incorrect logic.

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by sw1205 on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:31AM (#2034457)

It was only meant to be a light hearted joke. However if you want a serious reply - Yahoo bought Delicious and then a few years later they decide they want to possibly close down Delicious thus panicking users everywhere. We are focused on our userbase and would not want to put our site, which some of our users rely on, in any danger of closing and thereby forcing users to lose their bookmarks.

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by petervandijck on Thursday December 23, 2010 @10:16AM (#2034583)

To be honest, that sounds a little naive. If you were to become really big, would you not sell? Or just not to Yahoo? Things can change a lot in a few years.

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by corin_ on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:30AM (#2034448)

Otherwise known as humour I believe :)

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Re: Ask HN: A possible Delicious Alternative? by petervandijck on Thursday December 23, 2010 @09:50AM (#2034520)

Ah my mistake :)

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