I've open sourced Bookmarkly
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How HN took it
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 7 comments about the project. Thread score -0.30.
Execution: 0 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Good project, liked the bookmarklet idea
From 1 comment
Great project! One bit of feedback: I wish clicking the bookmarklet would keep me on the page I'm bookmarking instead of taking me to bookmarkly.
markerdmann on HN
Objections
Password salt committed to the GitHub repo
From 1 comment
You have your password/session salt checked into github, you might want to remove that :)
freshlog on HN
Chrome extension pointed to localhost
From 1 comment
Checking out site now. First thing I've noticed is that the Chrome plugin doesn't work. Keeps referring to localhost. http://localhost:3000/bookmarklet/?url=...
donohoe on HN
Signup form used GET request and broke on IE8
From 1 comment
The site doesn't work on IE8. The signup form sends a GET request. This is where it redirects me to:…
michaelkscott on HN
Bookmarklet redirects away from the page being bookmarked
From 1 comment
Great project! One bit of feedback: I wish clicking the bookmarklet would keep me on the page I'm bookmarking instead of taking me to bookmarkly.
markerdmann on HN
Requests
Open source the screenshot server
From 2 comments
What are you using to generate the screenshots? I see a link to http://screenshots.bookmarkly.com/ in the code? Edit - just seen this: > The screenshot generating server is…
dabeeeenster on HNI'd love to help out if you are able to open source it one day. I spoke to the owner of url2png and he's a great guy, but I'd rather roll my own services for that sort of thing!…
dabeeeenster on HN
Allow exporting page caches
From 1 comment
I'd switch from Diigo, if we could save page caches. Many others being held hostage because we can't export our page caches would encourage you. Screenshots is a good start.
intellection on HN
Questions
What is used to generate screenshots
From 1 comment
What are you using to generate the screenshots? I see a link to http://screenshots.bookmarkly.com/ in the code? Edit - just seen this: > The screenshot generating server is…
dabeeeenster on HN
Alternatives named
url2png
From 2 comments
I also wrote a screenshot server (in JavaScript) for the project which is running at that subdomain. It's using Webkit for the screenshots then node-imagemagick to crop and…
dangrossman on HNThat was the original plan, but your site charged me then errored out without giving me an account when I tried to sign up. I hope you've fixed it (and tested it) since then.
dangrossman on HN
Linkpeek
From 1 comment
Not interested in hosting your own image screenshots? Check out http://linkpeek.com
foxhop on HN
wkhtmltoimage
From 1 comment
I've had success with wkhtmltoimage for this, it's part of wkhtmltopdf: http://code.google.com/p/wkhtmltopdf/
phpnode on HN
PhantomJS
From 1 comment
phantom.js can do this, and the bonus is that it's already written in javascript. :) It depends on QT for it's webkit component but that's it... Doing a screenshot with it is…
owyn on HN
Diigo
From 1 comment
I'd switch from Diigo, if we could save page caches. Many others being held hostage because we can't export our page caches would encourage you. Screenshots is a good start.
intellection on HN