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Looking for people to interview about my self-hosted bookmark manager (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I’m interviewing folks to determine the roadmap for my federated link sharing project “linkblocks”. If you like bookmark managers, lemmy, are.na, or any other app for curating and sharing stuff, this is your chance to make me build your dream app ;)

A session takes about 30 minutes in a voice chat. If you’re interested, comment here or send me a DM!

For the curious, here's a demo for the current prototype. The code is on github.

In contrast to other bookmarking apps, linkblocks focuses on collaboration and discussion. Discussion will be a bit like on lemmy, but instead of voting, bookmarks are discovered through tagging and following individual users.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Linkblocks needs some branding work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

That's one of the reasons I'm doing the interviews :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So, this actually works pretty great. If it had integrated search, and the ability to add tags, and integrated favicons, people would probably use it as is.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks! Integrated search & website icons are coming soon. Tags are already there but are called lists - which is probably a bit confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Looks interesting, first thing I notice is that the demo loads rather slowly. Why not just a wiki?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks for the hint - it seems there are some routing problems to the server. I'll look into it!

linkblocks is inspired by wikis but differs in some key goals:

  • the UI for discussions will be more upfront than in most wikis, and will look more like lemmy's comment UI.
  • bookmarking-specific features like dead link checking, full-text website retrieval & search
  • optional stream of new bookmarks & comments from people you follow
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'll try to take a closer look and I might be up for an interview, since the concept interests me. I generally prefer less formal structure. Do you remember DMOZ? It might even still be around.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I’m fine with an informal structure, as long as we talk about some of the topics I want to learn about :) DMOZ looks fascinating. Seems like curlie is its successor, but their page doesn’t load for me.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

In an interview I'm fine with any structure or topics you want. By informal structure I meant in the software UI, not the interview. I'll to post more tomorrow or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Sorry I can't vc but I'd like to share some opinions/feedback. A lot of these are UI/UX things that I imagine won't be implemented until later in development but I would like to get them out there:

  1. Please do not add AI to this (or at least keep it as a plugin). Seems like an odd ask but every webapp bookmark manager I've check out has added the most random AI features

  2. Optionally see bookmarks under lists in the sidebar (including seeing lists under "unpinned lists" and bookmarks under "unsorted bookmarks"). For neatness sake maybe have it clamped to 10 items and have the rest listed as a single item + x bookmarks in a subtext color

List
  Sublist
  Bookmark
  Bookmark

  1. Search for bookmarks

  2. Rename, delete, and move bookmarks from the sidebar with a right click menu

  3. Sidebar bookmarks show favicon of website. Bookmark page shows a preview of the website

  4. Extra information in key=value for bookmarks, ie: price=49.99, and being able to sort by keys, ie: price <= 25

  5. Hidden bookmarks: hidden by default from searches and list views unless "show hidden" option is toggled. I personally would use this a lot for websites I've read through already but might want to keep incase someone else needs the info

  6. Archived bookmarks: archive the site itself and store it on the server

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Thanks for the input! Lots of these features are on the roadmap already. There are no AI features planned.