Show HN: I made a tool for curating and sharing links as lists

[aspenmayer]

Instead of/in addition to cleaning dead links, this would benefit from integrated link archival via third parties or a first party integration, self-hosted solution, and/or bring-your-own API key to third party archives like Wayback Machine, archive.is, or others.

[chshux]

ohhh gotcha, didn't even think about this. will look into it and see how we could implement something like this. thanks!

[franze]

Is there a single example on how it will look like somwhere? I dont see any? (Mobile Browser)

[chshux]

hey! sure, here's one of my lists

https://snkl.ink/l/ZlBxSn

[saaaaaam]

Love this! A few comments:

1. When I delete a link from one of my snacks it opens a new tab with a 404. Is that expected? 2. There seems to be no persistent identifier for a snack - if I change the title, the URL changes and then the previous URL is dead. While it's nice to have a human readable URL is that actually necessary, or could you use a string? Maybe it's a SEO thing though, in which case maybe the title and the URL should be uncoupled so that changing the title doesn't break the link to the snack. 3. It would be nice to be able to add an image to the snack header, as well as the emoji. Maybe using unsplash or something. And maybe some colour styling.

[mmasu]

i cannot go past the signup page, however it seems to be the same idea behind the now defunct delicious: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delicious_(website)

[chshux]

hey! thanks for trying, you should be able to enter your email and continue through the flow. if you wouldn't mind trying again?

[alexchantavy]

yeahh this was my first thought. i miss del.icio.us, the tagging was so good and helped me keep things organized and discover high quality content

[kevin_thibedeau]

Needs a way for listed sites to display a link ring component to counteract the loss of discoverability in modern search.

[abraxas]

Oh, we're bringing back webrings now? That's one piece of internet lore I forgot about!

[chshux]

haven't heard of link rings before, will look into it

[hi_hi]

I've had a similar idea kicking around for some time now. This might be it.

One of the core concepts I wanted was to see how my list E.g. "Top 10 Best burger joints in <city>" or "Top 5 white wines for a Summers evening" compared to others similar lists. I've never been able to land on how to best implement something like this, without requiring some kind of strict tagging by the user to enable like for like comparisons and accurate rankings.

I wanted to call it "Social List" / "Socialist" :-)

[chshux]

lovely idea! the core of Snack is that it is not a "social" platform persay, but will at some point have the ability to see top lists.

the idea is that curators known for their domain expertise, e.g. MKBHD for tech products as a list, would be more popular/shared than others.

[jayunit]

Language models or embedding distance might work quite well. Cool idea! :)

[ms7892]

Lovely idea!

[grvdrm]

Love how dead simple and to the point this is. Great job. Put some stuff about it in my newsletter so you might see some traffic from a newsletter called The Teardown (on Substack)

[jcsnv]

I'd recommend adding a sample list to the home page - "Demo"!

[chshux]

good idea -- will add to the homepage!

[Atalocke]

Trying to sign up, if you click off the modal the whole page goes white except for the logo in the navbar, but it won't take you anywhere.

[chshux]

noted, thank you!

[Atalocke]

On the signup page, if you click off the modal, it'll render a blank white page with just the logo that doesn't go anywhere.

[chshux]

got it, thanks for the feedback! will fix

[MattRix]

Starting the page with the sign up button before telling me what the page is seems like a mistake. I almost closed the page at first (it’s not even obvious that you can scroll, it looks like a full page popup).

You should show example screenshots of actual useful lists people could share. The site is currently too focused on “what” you can do (features and capabilities), and not enough focused on “why” (practical real world use cases).

[chshux]

this is great feedback, thanks for trying it out!

and yes, will work on adding more use cases to the home page

[wenbin]

This is awesome! Is there an example list from Snack.xyz?

People love building lists on the internet.

Browser bookmarks are lists.

Podcasts/RSS feeds are lists.

YouTube has Watch Later / playlists.

Newsfeeds are lists.

Pinterest has a lot of lists of images.

[chshux]

example list here :)

https://app.snack.xyz/charles/the-best-websites-in-web3

[ellis0n]

Amazing tool! but I prefer LiveComment

[chshux]

thanks! thoughts on what you like about LiveComment?

[thebird]

You missed a golden opportunity to call it Linked List!

[chshux]

nice! the idea behind "Snack" is that they are internet shareables. shorter domain is my preference as well.