Hi all,
I'm currently working on a side project of mine. Originally main goal of the project was to learn new things and to fix my own problems (so I'm number 1 customer of myself). But I'm starting to thing about launching it as a side business. So I'm looking for some feedback on the project to see If it is something others would be interested in as well. Any constructive feedback is welcome.
So what is the project about (It doesn't have a name yet):
I collect and save quite a lot of resources and information but I have them saved on many places (bookmarks, pocket, Github repos etc.). When I need them I struggle to find them and waste my time to research the information again.
So I'm building an web app to easily collect and save all sorts of resources (text, images, URLs) to topic boards. There I can group and sort the resources to find them easily in the future. Think of it as Pinterest meet note taking app.
Main questions I have for you:
Thanks for the feedback.
This product is kinda similar to your idea, https://qlearly.com/beta/extensionv2
Check it out to understand the market. I think people who have to de lots of internet research for their work, this kind of product will definitely be a interest to them. Goodluck
Thanks for the tip. I found this tool few weeks ago and it is indeed very similar to what I need and what I build. It's just missing few thing for me (like to be able to store texts, images, files). But who knows maybe they will add it in the future.
I do have the same problem.
qlearly seems perfect but based in the reviews there is some privacy concerns?! So im not going to use it....
Im currently trying to use getpocket.com but im not happy with it... In fact right now im just using a Google spreadsheet to organize some urls...
Hi @luisd thanks for feedback, would you be willing to share more info with me? What are your biggest problems? And why other solutions don't work for you? Would you be eventually willing to answer more question (probably by different channel not to spam here)? Thanks in advance for any help 🙏.
Understand your problem with Pocket. It's great tool. But I usually use it only as a backlog to sort the stuff later (or read it later which is great tool for). But managing different resources for different topics there is difficult 🙁.
Thank you.
Sure, you can contact me via email or Twitter.
I believe I just want a simple solution to organize my Bookmarks. Currently I have more than 1000 bookmarks so its really painful to find the links i need in a fast way...
Trello can be good for collating random resources and info
Thanks fot the tip. Trello is great tool but saving data to it to create and manage collections of information is too cumbersome for me.
What will be the difference in storing your files on something like DropBox? That's what I do.
Dropbox is great for file storage/sharing but I need to save more kinds of resources (like URLs) and that is not something Dropbox is build for. Also you probably can't save texts or images to Dropbox directly from another page (if there is something like this feel free to tell me).
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Thanks for input. I did try some tab management extensions. But sometimes, they do not work well for me. Sometimes I do need to store another type of resource (eg. text or image). For example when I do found some interesting tip or article I want to same just some part of it (most useful for me). Not an entire article as then it is too much hassle for me to find that particular info again.
As for the stuff I use right now (besides prototype of my app) it's RSS reader, Pocket and browser bookmarks and it sometimes really difficult to find what I'm looking for (where is it stored etc.).