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Yeah sorry about that! I contacted the Space team and they are working on fixing it!

You should be signed up, but the confirmation emails are not going out. Maybe try again in a few hours!

Yeah it's an awesome concept!

Cardi looks great too! Might be worth to see if you can port it to Space, would make it easier for non-tech people to use it!

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:55PM (#28304640)
WebCrate uses services provided by Deta (like Deta Base for the database, Deta Auth for authentication) internally and thus can't be made available to run on any server without a rewrite of the backend.

Those services made it possible for me to build WebCrate in a short time and took a lot of work off my shoulders.

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:50PM (#28304571)
Thanks for the feedback! I can now see why not everyone has the same understanding of "self-hosted", which is totally okay!

I am not planning on providing a version of WebCrate which can be run on any server any time soon. WebCrate uses services provided by Deta (like Deta Base for the database) internally and thus can't be moved to a docker image without a rewrite of the backend.

I hope you understand and may consider giving Deta Space/WebCrate a try in the future!

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:45PM (#28304494)
Thanks, didn't expect so much backlash about the term!
Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @01:17PM (#28304168)
You are right, for text that will be public it isn't too bad.

Good tip with the Desktop app, but that doesn't seem like an ideal solution either.

Keeping my fingers away from Grammerly all together sounds like the best option IMO!

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:52PM (#28303890)
Thanks, fixed!

Between WebCrate instances? Thanks to Deta Space each instance has its own domain so it is reachable directly without a gateway or central server. The instance then exposes a public API which another instance and the client can access to get the required data.

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:37PM (#28303716)
Not at moment no. You can only add links via the browser extensions and the dashboard.

The extension supports an omnibox though so you can just type "wc" in your address bar, press tab and everything after that will be added as a URL to your WebCrate instance.

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:13PM (#28303468)
Good to know, thanks! I'm currently using Microsoft's Editor extension.

Do you have any good alternatives?

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @12:03PM (#28303339)
Whoops! Thanks so much for pointing them out!

Thought I fixed all the typos, but some always get through! Grammarly might be a good solution, thanks :D

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @11:53AM (#28303218)
WebCrate is free since I as a dev don't run any servers and the data/compute lives with the users. I don't have any operational costs essentially.

Deta Space is just getting started -- their plan is to offer payments and take a percentage for paid apps.

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @11:25AM (#28302818)
I totally get your point! Instead of self-hosting, you could call it a personal cloud.
Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @11:22AM (#28302779)
Space (and WebCrate) are currently free!

Even if they charge something for it in the future, the version of WebCrate you install today will always be free.

On Deta Space updates are also opt-in, you choose when and if you want to update WebCrate.

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:57AM (#28302443)
Not out of the box no. You could fork and modify it, but that would take a lot of work.

Can't recommend Deta Space enough though, it is kind of like self-hosting it without managing an actual server!

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:19AM (#28302015)
Funny how it means completely different things to different people. As a 18 year old I would never think of vinyl records when hearing "crates" :D
Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @10:18AM (#28302003)
Nope, not at this time. You can only store the URL itself in a "crate".

Glad you like the name though!

Re:Show HN: WebCrate – an open-source social bookmarking tool on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @09:18AM (#28301289)
Hey fellow internet users! I always got frustrated with existing bookmarking tools as they were either too clunky to use or had way too many features I didn't need. Until I decided to just build my own!

WebCrate allows you to organize links, articles and more from around the web into collections called crates. You can share the crates with anyone and since each user gets their own instance of WebCrate in their own 'personal cloud' thanks to Deta Space, you can subscribe to other users crates and view their links right from your dashboard.

Deta Space made it really easy for me as dev to build something like WebCrate quickly and it's also awesome for users. The app keeps running even if I disappear and hosting, auth etc. is all handled for me.

For the nerds, I built WebCrate with Nuxt and ExpressJS and it uses Deta included NoSQL database.

You can learn more about WebCrate at http://webcrate.app or install it directly on Deta Space (https://deta.space/discovery/webcrate)! Let me know what you think (WebCrate is OSS, so you can also contribute) and I hope you find it useful!

Re:Ask HN: Companies of one, what is your tech stack? on Wednesday August 25, 2021 @04:54AM (#28299344)
https://webcrate.app - OSS bookmarking tool to help you organize your web

- Vue / Nuxt / Plain CSS

- TypeScript / Node / Express

- Hosted in your own personal cloud thanks to Deta Space (https://deta.space/discovery/webcrate)

Nuxt made the frontend super simple and fast to build, it takes care of a lot of things for you! Deta is also awesome for devs