My weekend project - alternative to Pinboard / Delicious
I'd like to share with you my "weekend" project - LStack (http://lstack.com/), simple web application built as a by-product of another project I'm working on (on which I've tried to get HN feedback few weeks ago - see http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3194597).
LStack was born of frustration with one specific limitation of other bookmarking apps (like Delicious). I'm doing a lot of research for my projects and I needed to store some attributes about bookmarked articles, companies, webapps, courses and certifications info, etc. My tags, plain text description fields, notes were becoming a mess.
I needed my bookmarks annotated with parameters like "price = 100 USD", "integrated with = facebook", "integrated with = twitter", "filetype = pdf", "filetype = doc", "funding = 1M USD", "prep = gmat", "prep = lstat", "payments = paypal", "payments = credit card", "type = news", "type = company", "type = product", "contact email = [email protected]", "supported language = english", "stage = private beta", etc.
So about month ago I've spent few days to implement LStack which allows me to save not only bookmark but also additional "structured" data connected with it. The webapp is still very raw and not even close to feature-rich predecessors like Pinboard or Delicious, but I've successfully switched to it and extensively use the unique smart tags feature.
What do you think of the application? Do you face similar problem? Do you find the webapp useful? I'm wondering if anybody could be interested in additional, especially "premium" (paid) features. Do you think something like LStack has a chance to become a business, not just hobby side-project?
Best regards, Seele
minor thing: your signup password fields should be of type password so they don't show up in plain text.
Regarding password fields - that was conscious choice not to mask them. Do you think it could have negative impact on users acquisition?
The bookmarklet popup is spot on. Everything I need, nothing I don't.
The home tab shows signup info even when I'm logged in, should hide after I'm logged in.
For passwords, I think it'd be best to hide them because it's the convention, and add a js link to "show password" for users who want to see it.
How about the service itself? Do you find the smart tags (parameters attached to bookmarked link) useful in your use cases?
Other then that, looks amazing. If there's easy import/export features, I could see this luring me away from Pinboard, at least temporarily.
Export of your data is already available. I'm working on import from Pinboard and Delicious, so you'll be welcome to try the service :)
And one question - what would make you interested in paying for the service?
As for more suggestions, a pretty obvious one is a browser plugin. While bookmarklet is nice, a plugin would likely allow to offer more features (like list of recently added links as popup menu, search mechanism, etc.). I guess it's not hard to turn bookmarklet into Chrome plugin, but please don't forget about Firefox users too :)
Please, read import remarks carefully - Delicious API has a bug and LStack workaround is quite brutal (change all spaces to commas). Be aware.
Actually there is a way to export data from LStack - use EXPORT button on your account page.
There's no way to import links now. What service do you use?