Show HN: clipboard.com, the best way to save anything online

Very slick setup &#38;&#38; service! My one question: are there any safe-guards against people sharing sensitive information hidden in the html, e.g. user-auth tokens (like the ones you can find in HackerNews up-vote links: <a href="http://clipboard.com/clip/LQjwmHJQNjxVAYYPgQzmbPAYrMjpkkHdOT5e" rel="nofollow">http://clipboard.com/clip/LQjwmHJQNjxVAYYPgQzmbPAYrMjpkkHdOT...</a>)? Is this even a practical security concern?

For the lazy.<p><a href="https://clipboard.com/" rel="nofollow">https://clipboard.com/</a><p><a href="http://clipboard.com/site/news.ycombinator.com" rel="nofollow">http://clipboard.com/site/news.ycombinator.com</a>

How much did you pay for the domain, and how was it acquired?

This is cool!I really like the clipping interface. I tried everynote before a while back and it didn't feel as good.<p>Just a side thing, you sent me two emails: An email confirmation and a Welcome To Clipboard email. Would it be possible to join the two together, or forgo the latter? I'm just tired of getting so much email.<p>It looks really good. You seem to have the potential for the pinterest/delicious tagging stuff, but I don't know anything about that stuff. Another rant: when you delete a clip, it just deletes and displays the empty page, would be better if you went back to Home.<p>I wish you guys luck!

Not sure if you guys are still reading this thread, but I've got an extensive collection (3k+ images) that I've already stored up on Lookwork, in addition to hundreds of posts on Snip.it.<p>Clipboard finally looks like an end-all be-all for these types of services, but my problem with getting involved in yet another curation site is that I have these thousands of posts with their own tags already. Will there be any future efforts to allow the mass-upload / transfer of this content? I'd love to use the site but I can't pull myself away from two other dedicated services I've put years of effort into.<p>Edit: Actually, upon populating my feed and checking out the public posts, I'm not sure how this is any different from Snip.it and how the content is any better than the regurgitation on Pinterest or Piccsy. Also the layout is really busy and turned me away quite quickly.<p>Snip.it's primary feed is at least dictated by staff members who have gone through and vetted that the user's posts are substantial enough to warrant showing them on the front page as a means of proving quality. Much like I told the founders in the Piccsy thread, I think it is hard to launch a service like this when so many exist and your content looks the same and is equally unfulfilling. Piccsy's response was that users would do the legwork to enhance their experience, and my retort was that users don't want to bother doing all of this extra work when tomorrow another site like this will launch with higher quality content and a better layout. Thoughts?

I think that it's a very nicely formatted product. You've done some really interesting things with laying out the content. That said, I have a few issues:<p>Mobile - I often consume this kind of "clippable" content on a mobile device. It's limited in usefulness since it's just a browser extension (which doesn't exist on my Android)<p>Clipping UI - It can be frustrating to try and clip just the parts of a page that i want. The clipping box moves around seemingly randomly. I'd expect it to work similar to how a screenshot tool works, (a rectangular square on the screen) but it appears to be scanning for parts of the web page and then offering those parts as suggestions. This makes it difficult to just clip what I want.<p>Readability - On the "pinterest" board view (sorry - that's how I think of it) - the text is dramatically shrunk, and the headlines are often clipped. So I've got no idea what some of the clipped articles are about, unless I click them.<p>If there was a way to summarize the text instead of showing a thumbnail of the whole thing, it might be more useful. That technique (thumbnails) seems to work well on pics, but not on text oriented clips.<p>When I do click them, they appear in a lightbox view. The URL doesn't change unless I click through again to another view. It'd be good to have a linkable URL in lightbox views so I could share easier.<p>Nice work though, good luck with it. Also, I would love to hear more about developing your site in NodeJS .

A bit of feedback - the first thing I see is a message saying "you need to create your account", which put me off. It would be nice if I could save a few things immediately with an auto-generated temporary account, accompanied by a "sign-up to keep what you've saved" message. Otherwise, it's difficult to know whether it's a service I'd find useful.

How is this notable? Not trolling, serious question. Whom do you see using this and why would they not use existing alternatives?

Pretty cool concept. I love the flowing endless canvas on the public page, it's what I wish Reddit and HN had. If clipboard.com fails, you could always pivot and pitch that component as a SaaS for aggregators and blogs, or something.<p>Some UX suggestions: I sign up, and I said I wanted to follow music, programming, and tech, but I get to the Home page and I don't see any way to see others' content based on that subscription. Sure, I haven't clipped anything yet, but you already have the content at Public, so why not show me what you can do right away? Also, it's unclear that I need to click the Visit button to visit a post. Think of Reddit Enhancement Suite: it shows inline pictures, but if you click anywhere on the picture or on the link itself, it takes you to the original source. Here, clicking the picture does nothing.

Striking resemblance to Slash7's Charm logo: <a href="http://charmhq.com/" rel="nofollow">http://charmhq.com/</a> ?

I've been using clipboard in the beta for a while now, and there is a lot I like. I have a few people I work with who also use it, and my biggest piece of feedback is that while it is very handy for me and for creating "boards" of things I can show someone, I still don't feel like I know how to use it in a team or company setting. We end up clipping similar things or tagging almost-but-not-quite the same way, and in the end I don't have a way to coordinate across accounts on a team.<p>All that being said, I love sharing design samples with Clipboard when I am kicking off a project with a customer. It helps us scan the landscape and discuss the early plan. So it is useful for work, but I'd love if there was an easier way to collaborate. Or are there features I should be using differently?

I like the concept and that there's depth behind the glitz. Hopefully users will progress along the path from savers (useful initially in its own right as a bookmarking service) to sharers (more useful as more users join).<p>Here are some observations on sign-up and initial use:<p>Sign-up: Feedback for good field input shows check mark with FF 12 but missing font square for IE 8 and Chrome 21 dev.<p>Sign-up: Too soon to ask me to access my social accounts. We just met. No trust established. At least it's optional, though.<p>Sign-up: Bookmarklet installation guidance is slick.<p>Operation: Clipping via bookmark bar works very well. I like the subpage selection interface.<p>I'll have to play more to appreciate it all but wanted to get an initial reaction out for you. Nice job.

Nothing happens when I click the "Request an Invitation" button.<p>Edit: There it goes, but it took a few seconds. Also, when I mashed the button four times, four "Email Address" boxes popped up: <a href="http://i.imgur.com/Y1s9q.png" rel="nofollow">http://i.imgur.com/Y1s9q.png</a> At least give me some indication that something's happening if you must delay like that.<p>Edit 2: Same thing happens when I "Submit" my email address, again with no indication that you got my address except for an unfriendly "Invitation already requested for....." message.<p>I'm on Luakit (which is just webkit, like chrome)

This is excellent, I particularly enjoyed the interactive bookmarklet installation - simple, but really powerful!<p>This idea (or similar concept) was actually proposed to me my brother a few years ago, looks like you've executed it really well. I probably should have listened to him at the time!<p>One bug/missing feature: You don't seem to preserve custom fonts in the clippings - which means the formatting isn't quite preserved either.<p>Eg. Compare the full site, to the clips, at <a href="http://clipboard.com/home/openrent.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://clipboard.com/home/openrent.co.uk</a>.

UI note -- it's annoying to have the annotation box at the very bottom of the page preview popup. Often, I will try to clip only the top potion of a page, however, due to the div structure, I will end up with a really long clip. This means item view is relatively useless at it involves too much scrolling. However, in tile view, I can't edit the keywords. When I click to open an item, I'm stuck with scrolling to the bottom of this very 'tall' clip to get to the annotation box.

Is there a way to save all the stuff you on your clipboard offline? I am looking for something like this, but in a local software kind of way, not a webapp. These new startups' survivability are very unpredictable and I don't want to lose all my info if the site goes bust. It's the top thing that's stopping me from committing myself to your site.

I am trying to figure out if this site is any different from del.icio.us (earlier) to pinterest and so.cl (so... yesterday), which consumes a lot of energies on something that was already there some years back. Just a good user interface? It may not be enough to keep us on it longer. Thanks for a bonus to HN users, though.

I can't think of a comment with any substance cause I'm about to go to sleep, but I'll check back in the morning.<p>This is something I would like to share with the ~150 journalists I manage if it's any good.<p>Nice to see you guys here on hacker news!<p>Goodnight! (from the United Kingdom)

It's a beutiful service, but I still can't see how to make good use out of it.<p>It seems to me a Evernote-ish within your network. I'll keep using for a while and, in the case I come up with any feedback, I'll share with you guys.<p>Thanks for a bonus to HN users.

Impressive!<p>Every corner I turn I sense the effort, thought and joy things were made with.<p>a question though, who produced your animation video? I am curious as we are also planning to produce an animation video for promotion for our product.

There are so many bookmark services...Something that I'd like to see is a bookmark based in a goal or objective. Something like, I'm learning Lua and I want to save a bunch of links that I won't need afterwards when my goal was accomplished.

This is quite an awesome app. Although, I've been using Springboard service for quite sometime and has served it's purpose for me. Although the UI components can be a bit clunky at times, it definitely is not that bad...

I've been using this service for a couple months now, and I like it. Not sure if it's possible, but a context option (right click) would be really nice.<p>Also, I want to see what others who saved this web page also saved.

Saving a long page gives me the "unresponsive script", like this one: <a href="http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/modeling-users#top" rel="nofollow">http://ruby.railstutorial.org/chapters/modeling-users#top</a>

I like it. The interface feels a little laggy to me but that might be because I'm using phone tethering at the moment. I see it as an odd mix of Pinboard, Pinterest, and Evernote; kinda what I was looking for.

For storing and remembering stuff I think Evernote is more or less the best option. The social aspect of Clipboard seems to be the same thing as Pinterest too.<p>I really like the UI however, very attractive.

Just a minor issue: The default clip titled "Browsing Clips" lists tabs as "Home, Shared, Publish", where the last one should have been "Public".

It's quite pretty, I like it. Assuming it works sort of like Pintrest?<p>Huge plus points for the domain name, it's great.

I see you are using Node and Express on the frontend - what other Node modules are you using or found useful?

Looks nice - I'll try to use it and share my opinion in a few days.

What about privacy? How do you approach that?

I'm using this already and I just love it!

support for gravatar would be nice