Ask HN: Pinterest for Text?

Re:Ask HN: Pinterest for Text? by turadg on Sunday July 21, 2019 @04:47PM (#20493561)

I've wanted something like this too, mostly for learning and food for thought.

Memo tried to carve out a niche ("Facebook is for photos. Twitter for discussing sports and Donald Trump. Memo is for learning.") (https://web.archive.org/web/20161021001811/http://memoapp.co...) but they ultimately threw in the towel. (http://memoapp.co/)

I doubt there's going to be a successful new product for this because Pinterest and Twitter cover the use cases pretty well and are hotter media (à la McLuhan). Images are mostly a superset of text use cases. You can always put great text into an image, and doing so gives is more context and emotional color.

Also funny, if you search Hacker News for "pinterest text" you get this Ask HN and a Show HN from six years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5558714 So it looks like QuoteRed also tried and gave up.

Maybe an open source app would work because it wouldn't need much of a sustainability model, just a few passionate dogfooding developers.

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Re:Ask HN: Pinterest for Text? by throwaway13411 on Sunday July 21, 2019 @07:34PM (#20494375)

  Images are mostly a superset of text use cases. You can always put great text into an image, and doing so gives is more context and emotional color.

I disagree, it should be optimized for high density text-only content.

HN attracts the kind of people it attracts because of its simplistic design, no images and focus on content.

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