Thanks everyone upvoted! It may look like a simple website but I spent a lot of time on this project :) Besides of programming, I shot that little video [1] in homepage, it was my first time to do voice-over :)<p>I created a invite code for HN, so you can sign up without wait; <a href="https://getkozmos.com/signup?code=HNEWS" rel="nofollow">https://getkozmos.com/signup?code=HNEWS</a><p>Here is some brief info for HN users. It's built on Go, Elastic Search and (Pr)eact. The extensions use IndexedDB [2] to create a database [3] that users read/write, and that database gets synced with Kozmos servers. This makes Kozmos' like button work consistently, even when Kozmos is down or user has bad / no connection.<p>How will Kozmos monetize ? Kozmos will always be free for bookmarking privately. In the next version, I'll introduce public collections which users can use for creating nicely organized bookmark collections, and this feature will be available for only paid users.<p>For more details, I wrote a blog post; <a href="https://medium.com/@azerbike/introducing-kozmos-a-new-bookmarking-platform-75f4df448ccc" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@azerbike/introducing-kozmos-a-new-bookma...</a><p>Thank you,<p>Azer<p>1. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_OOQaJRfQ" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs_OOQaJRfQ</a><p>2. <a href="https://github.com/azer/indexeddb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/azer/indexeddb</a><p>3. <a href="https://github.com/kozmos/likedb" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/kozmos/likedb</a>
There are strong critics of free bookmarking sites (@Pinboard in particular). Their main criticism is that without a revenue model, users will eventually lose their bookmarks.<p>What's your plan?
Not wanting to steal roadbeats' lunch, but as the source isn't available, if anyone wants a self-hosted solution, Wallabag 2.0 is pretty awesome[1].<p>[1] - <a href="https://wallabag.org/en" rel="nofollow">https://wallabag.org/en</a>
I first thought it was neat. Personal library, like how Streama is a personal Netflix. Then I saw it's another service owned and controlled by someone else.<p>Don't get me wrong, I don't know you, and im not going to assume bad behavior. But this is a treasure trove of data, and you cannot guarantee that if acquired, another party wouldn't exploit it. If it were local or on a machine I controlled, then I could guarantee data security and privacy.<p>Enough of my life is on the "cloud" controlled by interests that are different, and sometimes oppositional to mine.<p>Thank you, but no.
> Kozmos will add your browser the button, so you can bookmark easily.<p>Should be something like "Kozmos will add a button to your browser..."<p>Also, the onboarding seems buggy. I was asked to add the extension twice and then got stuck at a loading screen. Having an import feature is nice, but what format are the files supposed to be in? Just a list of URLs? If so, where do the names of the bookmarks come from?<p>Edit: I tried importing an HTML export of my bookmarks from Chrome which Kozmos seems to try to support. The import fails though with a 500 from the API and some additional JS errors.
Seems you will charge for usage in the future ? No mentioning of a free tier ? No pricing ? I generally do not sign up for anything that is not clear on that.
Something to note is that keypresses are often ignored in (all?) text fields. Like, I can't type "google.com" without having to repress at least 2 keys.<p>EDIT: There's been 2 cases where I've noticed the character is added but then subsequently deleted in the next instant. Typing faster causes more characters to go missing, and I have to type like 1 keypress a second to type "google.com" correctly.
I find it weird how every bookmarking service lacks a high density list format like how browsers display it. It frustrated me so much I just made my own <a href="https://felipecortez.net/marks/felipecortez/tag/people+design/" rel="nofollow">https://felipecortez.net/marks/felipecortez/tag/people+desig...</a>
This is great - the like / heart button is really slick, and I love how it doesn't get in the way at all. I've used pinboard and others in the past, and the (relatively) heavier bookmarking flow would often stop me from saving things as I didn't want to break my flow.<p>Excited to see where this ends up!
I've been tossing around the idea of what a bookmarking solution would look like that would save a cache of the current page and possibly surrounding pages. Maybe even have the ability to highlight or make notes on the page directly. The use case would be bookmarking a page that is later updated and I was never really sure why I bookmarked it in the first place. Or possibly bookmarking pages behind a login screen.
Here's an honest to god question: Why are you storing your bookmarks on some random person's server? From a privacy POV it appears quite questionable, so what is the upside?<p>(I never once in my life thought "damn I don't have that exact URL of THING bookmarked in SPECIFIC DEVICE.)
I'm using fetching.io, which is a paid service, but it also seems like the work of one guy, and we don't use the same browsers, so I'm ambivalent about it.
What's the trick to getting search to work on non-webpages?
I couldn't find any keywords that would pull up PDFs, including elements of their bookmark name.
search seems to need a lot more works. Typeahead would be nice but partial match is sorely needed, eg. bus should bring up links on business and bus schedule.
just registered and installed the extension. do I always need to go to the website manually to view my bookmarks or is there a navigation point i'm missing in the extension?