Show HN: Curabase – Curate a list of links for yourself, your team, or the world

[DanielStraight]

I've been looking for a product like this (or thinking about building one).

Some feedback:

Signup process is tedious. I have to create an account to even see how it works. I have to pick a username AND give an email address. I have to validate email address with multiple clicks (click link then click button on loaded page). Then I have to reenter everything to sign in.

First view of the system says to click and drag links to reorder them. Clicking and dragging links does nothing until you enter edit mode. I almost gave up assuming the thing didn't work at all before I discovered this.

No "Save" button in edit mode. Just close edit mode... but this doesn't allow NOT saving, which is somewhat unexpected since it's a separate mode.

Visiting a new page seems to automatically put you in edit mode, which persists when visiting other pages. Honestly, I'm not sure at this point why I would ever not want to be in edit mode. I suggest getting rid of modes and providing an undo to roll back any accidental changes.

Number of groups shown across width should be dynamic based on window size not fixed.

[sheraz]

Great feedback. Thank you.

I've been thinking about creating an anonymous user, and then "nag" user to complete signup later.

[bborud]

Yeah, I saw the signup page and left immediately.

[NicoJuicy]

What do you think about http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/ (= username: demo & password: 123456 ) ( self plug)

[kinj28]

try teamgum.com

disclaimer - I am marketing head at company who spun it off as a side project

[tomdepplito]

You're loading JQuery asynchronously on the password reset page, and this can cause a race condition where '$' is not defined before you start using it in this page's JS. You may want to check for this on your other pages.

[kafkaesq]

As others have said, the mandatory signup is a huge bummer.

I would be nice if people had the option of making their lists public (and searchable), so we could just jump in and get an idea of what the service looks like. And the search form would be on the splash page for the site, also (when not signed in), just like Twitter: "Find out what others are into."

[sheraz]

That's a good idea. I should maybe link to some public lists from the landing page.

Thanks!

[NicoJuicy]

I'm doing something similar, consider it as hackernews with tags ( and child tags), if there is any interest you can add your email to the beta waiting list here: http://goo.gl/forms/gXjdU9he2r

And a non finished version for a client can be found here http://tagly.azurewebsites.net (= username: demo & password: 123456 ) - the user submitted content is in Dutch :)

Example: http://tagly.azurewebsites.net/Home/ByTag?Name=paul-graham

It's great as document management system.

Eg. Computer company : trending anti-virus measures

Accountancy : trending kmo tax changes

Software firm : organize relevant learning resources for beginners ( eg. React tutorials ) and a tag : internal, which links to gitlab, Jenkins, your wiki, client remote credentials, company contacts, PBX install software,...

[chowes]

Would be a great Chrome extension to replace my home screen - any chance of that happening?

[sheraz]

I do!

I was saving it for a later post here to HN, but since you asked.... enjoy :-)

This simple extension will replace your new tabs screen.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/curabase-replace-c...

[lytol]

Have you seen Papaly? https://papaly.com/

[5960312]

Would love a "Sign up with Twitter/Facebook/Github" option.

[sheraz]

This will arrive in future versions. Strangely, not many have asked for it.

[nicostouch]

For those who love the idea and wish to keep more control over the data and have access to an API, I've put together a tutorial on how to make your own Curabase in roughly 10 minutes using Airtable.

http://www.web3tutorials.com/2016/05/05/make-curabase-in-air...

[sheraz]

Funny to see another bookmarking service pop up at the same time. (Must be something in the ether).

This is an MVP I made to scratch my own itch. There is an explainer video I made for /r/startups on youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0FV3j9ptU4

As always, feedback is welcome.

Thx

[zimmund]

Are you planning to open source it?

[davidp670]

What's the other bookmarking service?

[mothepro]

In the hacker news Android app browser your page looks fine but the tests has no line height.

Proof: https://www.dropbox.com/s/cdn5agc7plbr8g3/Screenshot_2016-05...

[owenfar]

Great idea, yesterday I also had mine here but for some strange reason it disappeared - you can check it out here:

Organise your bookmarks and collaborate with others!

https://www.yourbuttons.com

[sheraz]

Thanks! I think you are linked in my curated list of links of bookmark managers here:

https://www.curabase.com/a/b86eefdd-5f52-4455-9a1e-25ad0b0e9...

[d08ble]

LiveComment is open-source tool for bookmarks.

Just see demo: bookmarks_managers.sh is generated from interested links of this topic in 5 minutes.

http://acpul.org/pool

[parley]

Looks nice!

One question though: I didn't see any mention of an API (or other means of exporting data). Is there or will there be an open API?

I tend to never lock my data up any more, having been burnt too many times. Of course, this might not matter to most people.

[sheraz]

This is certainly on the roadmap. I'm thinking that an export button from your profile page would be easiest.

[3am_hackernews]

How different is this from pinboard.in - why should I migrate to this?

[sheraz]

I think they have different use cases.

pinboard.in is based around tags and does not let you layout your links in any particular order. It is mostly a tool for "saving" whereas curabase is more about curation / lists and returning to that content faster.

[conception]

So far, really like the idea.

1) Would be nice to be able to move groups between Pages.

2) I noticed you shared a list. Would be nice to be able to copy your page into a new one in my account.

[conception]

3) Also it's a bit weird that shared lists aren't formatted like they are for the owner.

[joelx]

Very interesting tool!

Suggestion: can you scrape gmail to find commonly used links and allow people to optionally add those?

[sheraz]

Thanks!

Interesting idea about the email.

(One of my pilot groups has already asked to do the same with their Slack channels)

[meeper16]

What a delicious idea!

[davidp670]

Hehe, delicious is such a disaster