Currl

Consumer and social

social bookmarking

SHOW HN2023

123points
48comments
#511of 3,109 in 2023
Top 17%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

DebatedReal support and real criticism

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

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

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 HN
    • Simple and straightforward. I like it Any chance on adding RSS support for the Followings section?
      Minor49er on HN
    • Thank you. Simple design = very useful. I like the bookmarklet.
      wopwops on HN
    • That 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 HN
    • I miss del.icio.us too. :D Nice work!
      mnsc on HN
    • del.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 HN
    • Agreed, that name is catastrophically horrible.
      tempodox on HN
    • I 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 HN
    • bad 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 HN
    • 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

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 HN
    • That 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 HN
    • Thank 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

Alternatives named

  • Pinboard

    From 2 comments
  • 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

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