Linkwarden

Productivity

bookmark manager

SHOW HN2023

280points
88comments
#171of 3,109 in 2023
Top 6%of 2023 by points

How HN took it

CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments

8 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 6 critical, out of 43 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.

Idea: 5 for, 1 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 0 for, 2 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against

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What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, neat design and useful self-hostable open source tool

    From 4 comments
    • This looks really nice, great work. I'll definitely give it a try. Have you considered a free tier where you could monetize it maybe via sponsorships/ads with the goal to have a…
      swozey on HN
    • Amazing. Collaborative bookmark management needed to happen. Imagine deciding you want to learn a new skill and not having to start from square one learning the lay of the land…
      totalconfusion on HN
    • Looks really clean. A few questions: - It’s not clear if this saves highlight in Ng and annotations (notes about the highlights). More than saving a bookmark we think about a…
      j45 on HN
    • I like to save the best / most interesting links I come across as I browse the web. It can come in handy to pull up a blog post I read a while ago or remember some new sass…
      andrewrothman on HN
  • Good for curating shared resource collections

    From 2 comments
    • Amazing. Collaborative bookmark management needed to happen. Imagine deciding you want to learn a new skill and not having to start from square one learning the lay of the land…
      totalconfusion on HN
    • This looks really nice, great work. I'll definitely give it a try. Have you considered a free tier where you could monetize it maybe via sponsorships/ads with the goal to have a…
      swozey on HN

Objections

  • Self-hosting may be heavy; Prisma/Next builds struggle on small machines

    From 2 comments
    • Oof, any time I see next/prisma I already know that my tiny VPS will likely choke building this... So yeah, self-hostable, but not for everyone. Got burned with this by cal.com…
      vsviridov on HN
    • I threw together a quick docker-compose.yml to try this out. For anyone else that wants to spin this up and give it a try locally:…
      joekrill on HN
  • No export functionality

    From 1 comment
    • To save anyone else the clicks, the pricing is $4/month for unlimited links. Currently, no export functionality.
      bachmeier on HN
  • Documentation page not found

    From 1 comment

Requests

  • Full-text search of saved pages

    From 2 comments
    • Are there full-text-search capabilities?
      RevoGen on HN
    • In addition to PDF and PNG, died it store searchable text from the page. If really live a way to do a text search of my bookmarks.
      asielen on HN
  • Automatic submission to archive.org

    From 1 comment
    • I've used Raindrop[1] for the last few years and it works well - cross device support, archived pages, and tags/folders. Going to check out Linkwarden since I really like the…
      ecliptik on HN
  • Docker version

    From 1 comment
  • Freemium or free tier

    From 2 comments
    • This looks really nice, great work. I'll definitely give it a try. Have you considered a free tier where you could monetize it maybe via sponsorships/ads with the goal to have a…
      swozey on HN
    • Amazing. Collaborative bookmark management needed to happen. Imagine deciding you want to learn a new skill and not having to start from square one learning the lay of the land…
      totalconfusion on HN

Questions

  • Support for LDAP/OAuth2 authentication

    From 1 comment
    • I'll definitely give it a short this weekend. Are there any plans to support different authentication methods? Like LDAP, OAuth2 etc? I'm using linkding at the moment…
      pratio on HN
  • Monetization and plans for self-hosted version

    From 1 comment
    • This looks really neat! Can you share more about the project? Such as: 1. What is the driving vision behind this project? For example is this just scratching a personal itch with…
      freedomben on HN
  • Safari or iOS app support

    From 1 comment
    • Is the browser extension coming for Safari as well? And what about an iOS App?
      Hiko0 on HN

Alternatives named

  • Floccus

    From 1 comment
    • Not to diminish the effort here, but I just want to point out (as someone who has tried lots of bookmark managers) that Floccus is everything I want from a bookmark manager…
      janvdberg on HN
  • Raindrop.io

    From 2 comments
    • I've used Raindrop[1] for the last few years and it works well - cross device support, archived pages, and tags/folders. Going to check out Linkwarden since I really like the…
      ecliptik on HN
    • I like to save the best / most interesting links I come across as I browse the web. It can come in handy to pull up a blog post I read a while ago or remember some new sass…
      andrewrothman on HN
  • ArchiveBox

    From 2 comments
    • I've used Raindrop[1] for the last few years and it works well - cross device support, archived pages, and tags/folders. Going to check out Linkwarden since I really like the…
      ecliptik on HN
    • This looks slick. Because archive.org is getting a little problematic by not allowing more sites to be archived, decentralized archiving is becoming more important. I have been…
      kornhole on HN
  • linkding

    From 1 comment
    • I'll definitely give it a short this weekend. Are there any plans to support different authentication methods? Like LDAP, OAuth2 etc? I'm using linkding at the moment…
      pratio on HN
  • Shiori

    From 1 comment
    • eeeeh. Shiori looks like it'd work infinitely better compared to floccus. It has an extension, tags, and everything is stored in a central repository you can visit from web (or…
      lannisterstark on HN

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