Currl
Consumer and social
social bookmarking
SHOW HN2023
How HN took it
5 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 6 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.03.
Design: 4 for, 5 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Simple, clean, text-based design
From 4 comments
Beautiful site, nice simple design! I love seeing other text-based sites as I have made a few of my own and it's such a joy to work on them. In general though, I've moved on from…
bsnnkv on HNSimple and straightforward. I like it Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?
Minor49er on HNThank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.
wopwops on HNThat said, like the barebones design.
joshuajill on HN
Nostalgia for del.icio.us
From 3 comments
We've come full circle. :) First there was del.icio.us. Then reddit was started with the original idea being "del.icio.us with voting". And now we're back to del.icio.us!
jedberg on HNI miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!
mnsc on HNdel.icio.us is back!
mwachs on HN
Good name, pun on URL
From 1 comment
First of all, this is a great url. In my head it's like "Ooooh, currl, did you SEE this"
jrm4 on HN
Objections
Name is too similar to cURL and confusing
From 4 comments
maybe not a name that is nearly the same as a very popular tool?
keithnz on HNAgreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.
tempodox on HNI remember Firefox spent quite a bit of effort trying to establish themselves as Phoenix or Firebird before eventually settling on Firefox. I hope currl can move on to a new name…
omoikane on HNbad name
syngrog66 on HN
Unclear which text items are links
From 1 comment
It took me solid 2mins to figure out that each text thing is a link. 2 mins i would not give to this site if I had encountered it anyplace other than HN. You might want to do…
newswasboring on HN
Worried about abandonment and lock-in without export or self-hosting
From 2 comments
Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just…
keb_ on HNa nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that…
nittanymount on HN
Requests
Open source or self-hostable option
From 1 comment
Is it open source and self-hostable? At this point I no longer trust these kinds of services since they always seem to be abandoned, suffer from enshittification, or just…
keb_ on HN
Bookmark export/backup
From 2 comments
a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that…
nittanymount on HNThat is a great idea. I am gonna add the ability to download bookmarks from the site right away. Thanks
vasanthv on HN
RSS support for Followings
From 2 comments
Simple and straightforward. I like it Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?
Minor49er on HNThank you. Yes RSS is in my radar.
vasanthv on HN
Custom CSS support
From 1 comment
I'd like to see custom css support, like a field to input it, so that I could have one link per line, all very compact.
qwertox on HN
Command-line interface
From 1 comment
a nice and clean site! assuming you want folks to use your service/sites. some suggestions: - if you get a way to let folks to download their own bookmarks as a backup, that…
nittanymount on HN
Questions
What is the popularity metric?
From 1 comment
what is the popularity metric ?
kleicht on HN
Alternatives named
Pinboard
From 2 comments
pinboard.in has been around for quite awhile :)
tuananh on HNpinboard.in still rocking!
ibz on HN
linkding
From 1 comment
linkding hit the spot for me. self hosted with simple API. https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding
pitzips on HN
Shaarli and Wallabag
From 1 comment
There is Shaarli and Wallabag (archives pages to read later) Both open source and self hostable.
joshuajill on HN
Bookmark OS
From 1 comment
May be worth checking out Bookmark OS (https://bookmarkos.com). Been around for 8 years and I am continuing to add features!
TenJack on HN
raindrop.io
From 1 comment
It's pretty low to take money from people for new signups, while knowing that features are broken for your existing customers and doing nothing to even acknowledge you're aware…
muppetman on HN
ln.ht
From 1 comment
The community at https://ln.ht is low key thriving also... great design and supports RSS.
the-printer on HN