Learnings from building reread.io
medium.comA good read overall, it's interesting to see projects that might not have a huge number of users but does have good engagement levels.
As for the marketing, if someone reached out to me over twitter I'd rather not know that it was something they "built over the weekend". That might sound great for the HN crowd but as a consumer I'd like to know services are solid, stable, reliable and will still be here tomorrow.
Thanks! Didn't expect that "built over the weekend" might send the wrong vibes. True that it doesn't add value in explaining the idea. Will definitely take note.
Could someone please build something like that for my local Firefox bookmarks? Make it a gamelike "Discover my bookmarks" or something ;)
That really is a great idea! I would want that too. Adding gamification would certainly be a fun MMO-like experience.
It works now if you push all your Firefox bookmarks to Pocket. :)
Is there an easy way for that with hundreds of bookmarks?
It is sounding more and more like an FOSS project more and more. That kind of answer to a potential customer is only really useful to people that are fine with solving their own problems.
I applaud the OP's effort to build and market this from scratch -- then write about it!
I will say, though, there's a reason marketing is an entire function led by separate people. It's hard, uses different strengths and experience, and requires consistent effort -- not variations on "post it and they will come."
Maybe if it supported other services as well it would gain a little more traction? I would love to reread my HN saved links, and as someone else mentioned old bookmarks, or at least find out if I still want to read them again. I guess pocket is a good start, but maybe it could go a bit further?
Yep. Some folks suggested Instapaper too. Personally, I am only on Pocket and hence I started with that.
Where do you store your HN saved links though?
HN stores them for me, and I thought it had an API, not sure how much the API reveals though...
This may only be me but I found the color scheme on your site a horrible eye-strain. There's a reason red text is used for error messages.
It's blinding. I get that it's supposed to imply the pocket connection, but if you go to pocket's website they only use that pink/red color in their logo and for accents like on buttons.
I agree. It's becoming a strain the more I work on it. "Redesign" will be going into the backlog. :)
>>reread.io is a service which sends you an email containing your forgotten Pocket links (with many config options).
And those emails will either be conveniently ignored or will land in spam folders after a while.
If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.
The usage data disagrees (see his open and click-through rates).
> If you don't have the time/discipline/motivation to read a article which is in your pant pocket, reminding you about it is hardly going to help your laziness/lack of motivation.
You might be right. But there's also the use case of it being just a timehop for your bookmarks vs. a read your unreads tool.
On this front -- I hate email. I'm tempted to do a pull request that creates todoist tasks for you each day. If you don't complete them it puts them back into the pool for a future date -- the last thing I need is my todo list guilt tripping me :p.
For me, it's the Inbox-Zero-Guilt, but I guess everyone has a different guilt that they are trying to avoid.