Ask HN: Need an advice – continue with the project or open source the code?
Hi Guys,
I need your advice. Some time ago I built myself a boomarking webapp. It wasn't feature rich. Just something which helps to save a link from my phone and open it on my laptop later. The problem for me where solved.
Later I saw the pocket app came out, read a post about pinboard.in and I though, if people actually paying for these services, I could add some features to my app and release it. I redesigned it( you know what happens when dev is trying to design :) ) and wrote some. But now reading about all the stuff people building I don't see this project is valuable anymore.
It's now at the point where it saves your links via a browser bookmarklet, downloads the page in background on the server and uploads saved pages to the google cloud storage. Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/kfmc0
The question is: what do you think I should do with the project? Do you see some potential in it? I mean, how do you think, can I add some functionality, put a monthly price on it and get some customers (Note: My marketing skills are even worse than my english), or should I just open source the potentially useful modules ( for example, full page download ) and release them on github and NPM ( the whole thing is written in node.js btw)? figure out what you want out of it first, then it'll be obvious what you should do. From the little info you provide it seems it might be a great test for learning a little marketing. Thanks, you gave me some food for thought